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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.

 

Trust Stamp files for patent on cross-platform digital ID authentication for NFTs, crypto

Trust Stamp has filed to protect its intellectual property for what the company describes as privacy-enhancing technology for proving ownership and…

 

CSIR offers contactless fingerprint biometric software to partners in South Africa

South Africa’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is bringing a contactless fingerprint biometric software enabling template creation and…

 

Consumers prefer biometrics to passwords, think less of brands with bad authentication

A far greater number of consumers would choose to use biometrics for authentication than passwords, if given the choice, according…

 

Jumio reports strong growth in government, healthcare, AML and channel

Jumio reports a 130 percent increase in new business in its fiscal third quarter of 2021, compared the same period a…

 

BioCatch COO takes CEO role to continue behavioral biometrics expansion

BioCatch Chief Operating Officer Gadi Mazor has been promoted to the company’s chief executive officer role, under the behavioral biometrics…

 

Oz Forensics selected by Freedom Finance Bank for biometric presentation attack detection

Liveness detection technology from Oz Forensics has been adopted by Freedom Finance Bank to secure its system from biometric presentation attacks…

 

Signzy expects rapid digital KYC growth in Middle East from Seed Group partnership

Signzy’s integrated biometric video KYC solution and other digital transformation tools can reduce digital transformation cycles for financial institutions from…

 

Fingerprint biometrics and IDV set for rapid growth, big players consider blockchain

Forecasts of rapid growth in fingerprint sensors and digital identity verification are backed up by reports from technology providers of…

 

Cognitec lauds combination of biometric accuracy and speed shown in NIST test

Cognitec has announced that the latest results from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) face biometrics testing show…

 

Governments grapple with biometric voter rolls, Thales reaches 15 deployments

Thales has deployed 15 different systems around the world for voter registration and verification with its ID management and biometric technologies,…

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