BNP Paribas to begin issuing biometric payment cards to all customers within 6 months
Biometric payment cards companies are starting out 2021 with a bang, as the first general roll-out of cards with integrated…
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NJ man wrongfully arrested based on facial recognition sues police and prosecutors
A New Jersey man has filed a civil rights lawsuit against police and prosecutors alleging racial profiling and misconduct in…
Disruption boosts new markets for biometrics as digital ID undergoes shock evolution
A review of the top article of each month from 2020 on Biometric Update shows the top themes of the…
Selfies for sale: Stolen data for biometric spoofs available on mainstream internet
Some advice about biometrics from a fraudster discovered by Montreal-based cybersecurity firm Flare Systems: “Major cryptocurrency exchanges like Coinbase have…
Africa’s digital ID authorities revisit strategy to build new enrollment models
For a range of reasons, 2020 was set to be a big year in the development of digital identity systems…
ZKTeco plans $190M IPO in China, US factory for biometric access control devices
ZKTeco made close to $250 million in revenues from its biometrics and access control technology in 2019, and is planning…
VinCSS new flagship fingerprint biometric security key certified for FIDO2 passwordless authentication
Vingroup subsidiary VinCSS has had its fourth biometric security technology certified to the FIDO2 standard for passwordless, on-device authentication, the company…
UK Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group updates principles to emphasize rights and non-discrimination
The UK government’s Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group (BFEG) has updated the ethical principles it released in 2018 to include…
RingCentral acquires DeepAffects as more biometrics integrated to improve online meetings
RingCentral has acquired conversational intelligence provider DeepAffects to bring its multi-speaker biometric voice recognition, emotion recognition, real-time closed captioning and other…
Sony patent filing shows head acoustic biometrics, Apple granted patent for multi-user authentication
A patent filing from Sony Corporation showing the use of acoustic measurements of users as a biometric modality has been…
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