Leaders in biometrics and ID policy honored by Goode, SIA, CIX
Goode Intelligence has declared BehavioSec CEO Dr. Neil Costigan, Women in Identity Co-founder Emma Lindley, and Nok Nok Labs President…
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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.
Imageware financial results provide strategic runway: biometrics stocks wrap
Imageware revenues increased by 29 percent to $942,000 for the second quarter of its fiscal 2021 on increases from biometric products…
Prove passive authentication with gait, motion biometrics reaches global availability
Prove’s behavioral biometric authentication technology based on motion and gait recognition has reached availability in 195 countries to help business…
Anonybit decentralized biometrics integrated into Abine password manager
Anonybit.io’s decentralized biometric technology has been implemented by online privacy technology provider Abine to release a password manager for its…
NEC claims win in NIST iris biometrics accuracy test
New iris recognition accuracy benchmarking from NIST is out, and NEC has claimed the top accuracy rate, at 99.59 percent for…
Groups call on Mexico to abandon biometric digital ID proposal
Mexico’s proposal to establish a biometrics-backed digital ID with a centralized database should be halted due to the threat such…
Firstface lawsuit win over Apple for iPhone unlocking infringement upheld
South Korea-based Firstface has been awarded a judgement in a biometric patent dispute with Apple by a U.S. federal appeals…
DHS suggests face biometrics bias reduction method, quantifies demographic effects
Removing facial features associated with race and gender can make face biometric algorithms less likely to confuse people with others…
SIA promotes digital ID document verification techniques amid expanded issuance
The Secure Identity Alliance has issued guidance on new techniques in digital ID document verification and authenticity checks. Optical Machine…
UL develops compliance program for mobile driver’s license tools
UL has developed a certification program for electronic identification (eID) products for compliance to ISO/IEC 18013-5:2021, the protocol standard for…
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