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Articles By Chris Burt

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.

 

Know your dataset and be creative: biometric PAD tips offered in EAB talk

Spoofs and presentation attacks are a threat to any biometric modality, but there are some common approaches to developing algorithms…

 

Biometrics investment surge continues with FPC’s $33M bond issue, planned TeleSign IPO

Fingerprint Cards has raised SEK 300 million (US$33.2 million) in a senior secure bond issue to invest in working capital and…

 

Innovatrics enhances biometric liveness detection with image quality checks

Filtering out low quality images from assessments improves the accuracy of Innovatrics’ passive biometric liveness algorithm, as the company’s Head…

 

CyberLink upgrades management tools for biometric surveillance and access control platform

CyberLink has updated its biometric surveillance and access control software with a new Video Monitoring and Recording (VMR) module and a…

 

Enterprise biometric solution combines Nymi wearable, G+D access control technology

A wristband for passwordless physical and logical biometric access control has been jointly developed by Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) and Nymi to unify…

 

Aadhaar set to expand by 900K with court order to include sex workers

Sex workers in India should be brought into the remit of government services with voter and ration cards and Aadhaar…

 

Ping launches authorization, BIO-key updates panel for enterprise IAM

Ping Identity has launched dynamic authorization capabilities for its digital identity cloud platform to enable enterprises to control what users can…

 

Grabba and Todaq jointly launch decentralized biometric credentials SDK

Mobile biometrics provider Grabba and credential and access management provider Todaq have launched the jointly-developed GOTO decentralized digital identity product to the…

 

Academics, Oosto propose facial recognition, AI ethics guidance in new forum

A group of artificial intelligence ethicists and stakeholders took a step towards establishing a forum to advance AI guidelines and…

 

Pakistan launches digital wallet for financial inclusion on back of biometric SIM registry

Pakistan’s government has unveiled a plan to bring 50 million people into the financial system by leveraging the country’s biometric…

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