Ethnicity recognition found among Russian face biometrics providers’ features
A quartet of Russian biometrics providers have been found to have built ethnicity-recognition tools into facial recognition systems, like their…
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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.
Integrated Biometrics adds touchless fingerprints with Sciometrics collaboration
Integrated Biometrics and Sciometrics have reached a strategic development alliance agreement to enable developers to build high-resolution touchless fingerprint biometrics into…
Digital ID rollout passes 1M cards in Philippines
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) says it is planning to roll out a website and offline mechanism for relying parties…
Many Germans wary of biometrics on ID cards
Deutsche Welle reports on the concerns of privacy advocates in Germany about the inclusion of fingerprint biometrics in the chip of…
Biometrics for compliant remote onboarding in high demand; Spanish regulator displeased
Alan Goode and an ID R&D executive recently discussed how companies can keep friction in their remote customer interactions low…
Construction industry biometrics supplier Causeway raises £120M, plans further acquisitions
Construction project technology provider Causeway, which acquired biometric construction site workforce management technology provider Donseed in 2019, has picked up a…
Idex Biometrics partners with Softlock on ID, access, payment cards for Asia, MENA
Idex Biometrics and Softlock have entered a collaboration aimed at developing and delivering biometric cards for identity management, access control…
Signicat adds biometric video capabilities with Electronic Identification acquisition
Signicat has acquired Electronic Identification (eID) to add the Spain-based company’s biometric asynchronous video identification services to its portfolio. The…
Organizational changes afoot at NEC and subsidiaries
NEC National Security Systems has appointed Dr. Kathleen Kiernan as interim President, in which role she will lead the delivery…
IPOs, deployments and analysis aligned: face biometrics growth is exploding
Face biometrics were the top theme of the week on Biometric Update, with implementations for remote customer onboarding, identity verification,…
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