Mastercard, Thales and Idemia promote biometric payment cards’ easy enrollment
Companies developing biometric payment cards are hard at work exploring their benefits, potential alternative uses, and their enrollment processes in…
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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.
Biometric tracking for parolees and prisoners grows, Supercom and Tyler Tech win contracts
Supercom has won a contract to deploy its biometric offender tracking PureTrack GPS platform for an agency in Wisconsin following a…
Financial service companies sign up biometric authentication for secure remote access
HYPR, FacePhi, Entersekt and Access Softek have each signed up new partners in the financial sector for improved remote authentication…
New Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing edition coming, researchers call for contributions
Idiap Research Institute Senior Researcher Sebastien Marcel has called for contributions to be included in the 3rd Edition of the…
Trust in digital ID requires intensive collaboration, public education: Women in Identity panel
Moving beyond the distrust that prevented the Australia Card from being introduced a generation ago to provide effective digital ID…
Suprema biometric access controller certified for UL 294 reliability
Intelligent biometric access controller CoreStation from Suprema has been confirmed for UL 294 compliance, which indicates the safety and reliability of…
ID R&D biometrics and liveness selected to power Credas onboarding solution
Biometric authentication providers have signed up new customers in several industries, including a new onboarding client for ID R&D, an…
Google argues alleged biometric privacy violations not covered by Illinois state law
Google has filed a motion to dismiss claims against it under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) from federal court…
Biometrics-backed digital ID in the spotlight as new laws and systems weighed around the world
The top news stories of the week on Biometric Update focus primarily on digital ID. Those stories cover government programs…
Report says lack of diversity in face biometrics datasets extends to expression, emotion
A pair of new studies on algorithmic bias in face biometrics both suggest that the lack of diversity in datasets…
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