Tech5 face biometrics deployed for COVID-19 status verification in Chile
Tech5 is providing its facial recognition technology to assist Chile’s COVID-19 health status verification efforts to prevent the spread of the…
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Chris Burt is managing editor and industry analyst at Biometric Update. He has also written nonfiction about information technology, dramatic arts, sports culture, and fantasy basketball, as well as fiction about a doomed astronaut. He lives in Toronto. You can follow him on Twitter @AFakeChrisBurt.
Fingerprint Cards’ touchless iris biometrics to power multiple Mantra Softech devices
Fingerprint Cards is supplying its touchless iris biometric technology to Mantra Softech India in a multi-year deal to power iris recognition…
Birth registrations in Pakistan to get boost from UNICEF and Telenor program expansion
Pakistan’s Sindh Province is receiving a new birth registration system from partners UNICEF and Telenor Pakistan to provide digital identity…
Existing biometrics standards back emerging of digital ID frameworks
As frameworks for trusted online services with biometrics and digital identity systems gain traction, technology providers must understand the standards…
Law enforcement and civil society grapple with facial recognition policy, transparency
Civil society groups around the world are calling for greater transparency in uses of facial recognition by police, and the…
Winning.I expands contactless fingerprint biometrics line with app launch
A new app for contactless fingerprint biometric capture on mobile devices has been released by Winning.I, and is already being…
Potential ways to avoid digital ID’s dark side concludes ID4Africa trilogy
Different digital identity systems and technologies were considered in ID4Africa’s final livecast of trilogy on ‘The Dark Side of Identity,’…
Mastercard, Thales and FPC supply biometric payment card launch in Poland
Bank Pocztowy in Poland is the latest to begin issuing biometric payment cards to its customers, following a trial conducted…
Large-scale face biometrics deployments, ID document plan details revealed
A series of large biometrics projects, deployments and investments were unveiled in the most-read stories on Biometric Update this week,…
NEC streamlines 1:N biometric matches for homomorphic encryption to protect data
Homomorphic encryption for biometric matching holds the promise of data protection even in use, and NEC Corporation is the latest technology…
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