Face biometrics legal landscape shifting with restrictions in China, police guidance in UK
Tianjin, a city of more than 12 million in Northern China, has passed a set of new local rules largely…
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Distributed enrollment of ID data demonstrated in OSIA Advisory Committee meeting
Members of the open standards identity initiative demonstrated the live simultaneous collection of sensitive ID data like biometrics from multiple…
Idex says biometric cards need quality fingerprint enrollment, how to achieve it less clear
The biometric enrollment processes selected by issuers need to be informed by their overall strategy for the new product, an…
New biometrics test lab for Android, phones with FPC sensors and faster facial recognition
Tech consultancy and testing provider Fime has formed a partnership with Android, becoming one of the first test laboratories eligible to…
Face, vein, fingerprint biometrics upgrades for physical access control systems announced
A facial recognition engine for access control from Tech5 has been updated, Centaman has added face biometrics to its own…
Thales fingerprint biometric card named among top 100 business ideas of the year
The fingerprint-enabled biometric card from Thales has been declared among the 100 best business ideas of the year by Actualidad Económica…
Market ready for biometric payment cards, but enrollment challenges remain: APSCA panelists
The technology for biometric payment cards is nearly ready, but the ecosystem is still maturing, and how enrollment will work…
Face biometrics accuracy identifying mask wearers improves in latest NIST FRVT report
Facial recognition accuracy remains significantly lower when subjects’ faces are covered, but error rates have dropped by around a quarter…
Investors pile on $3M more for Signzy biometric video KYC and platform expansion
Signzy has raised an additional $3 million from Vertex Ventures as part of its recently-announced fundraising round, to reach a…
NY school district allegedly misled about face biometrics system’s racial bias
A facial recognition system purchased by New York’s Lockport School District has greater disparities in performance between demographics than claimed…
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