US Coast Guard starts tender process for remote biometrics capability
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a ‘sources sought’ tender for a ‘Biometrics at Sea System’ (BASS)…
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Oxfam approves policy to use biometrics in humanitarian programs
Oxfam has introduced a new policy on using biometrics, based on seven principles, which both acknowledges the need to be…
HID Global capacitive fingerprint sensor aces biometric PAD test from iBeta
HID Global’s TouchChip TC series of capacitive fingerprint biometric sensors have passed a compliance test for Level 1 presentation attack…
Idemia face biometrics deployed at LAX for international flights
Passengers at Tom Bradley International Terminal at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) can now use face biometrics from Idemia on…
FacePhi face biometrics secure onboarding to Nigerian military pension system
FacePhi has partnered with Afrilight Technologies to introduce its face biometric authentication in Nigeria, under a program to facilitate pensions collection…
Swiftlane partners with Altronix for touchless biometric physical access control
Swiftlane and Altronix have partnered to integrate the formers access control devices powered by face biometrics with the latter’s Trove Access…
Shufti Pro launches Chinese website to ease biometric IDV integration
Shufti Pro has launched a new website in China as it seeks to address growing demand for online biometric ID verification…
NIST touchless fingerprint biometrics guidance confirms interoperability
Veridium Chief Technical Officer John Callahan says the new National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 500-334 is “Kind of…
Infinity Optics biometric hashing platform integrates ID R&D passive liveness detection
Infinity Optics’ Biometrics-as-a-service platform has added passive liveness detection from ID R&D to create a highly secure identity verification and…
Selfie biometrics for KYC extended to fraud detection, eSIM registration
Selfie biometrics providers are widening their KYC services to address a range of applications. Ariadnext is moving into the eSIM…
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