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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.

 

Deals for biometrics providers across market segments presage further adoption

A pair of biometrics deployments, one by ImageWare for a law enforcement customer and one by Mastercard for a payment…

 

Banks deploy selfie biometrics from Aware, FacePhi for remote onboarding

Turkish bank Garanti BBVA has selected Aware’s Knomi to provide biometric remote customer onboarding to help it reach new customer…

 

Integrated Biometrics expert to discuss presentation attack detection in EAB lunch talk, ISO/IEC 30107-3

Presentation attack detection technology and how it is tested is the subject of the next virtual lunch talk from the…

 

EyeLock, BioCatch appoint executives for next growth phases

EyeLock has appointed Allen Ibaugh as its new president, with Voxx CEO Pat Lavelle also taking on the iris biometrics provider’s chief…

 

YooniK reports face biometrics accuracy gains in latest NIST test

YooniK is reporting leading results for biometric accuracy in the latest round of testing by the U.S. National Institute of Standards…

 

No live facial recognition for New Zealand Police in self-regulation pledge

An independent review of the opportunities and risks associated with facial recognition commissioned by New Zealand Police has made a…

 

Avast stakes SSI position with Evernym acquisition

Consumer cybersecurity giant Avast is acquiring self-sovereign identity pioneer Evernym, and plans to integrate its user-controlled digital identity technology and…

 

New law enforcement biometrics deal signals ImageWare’s fresh direction, execs say

King County, Washington has selected ImageWare to provide an as-yet unreleased biometrics module for its 700 officers in a $1.5…

 

Crunch time for user-centric digital identity with DID spec fight

‘Identity Woman’ Kaliya Young is optimistic about the near future of user-controlled digital identity, perhaps in the form of self-sovereign…

 

Fraud, deepfake threats rising as biometric IDV forecast for 4X market growth by 2030

Face biometrics and liveness detection are proving effective against a rising tide of online fraud, in terms of the number…

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