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Articles By Chris Burt

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.

 

Zwipe orders 300K biometric fingerprint sensors from Idex for volume payment card production

Zwipe has ordered 300,000 units of Idex Biometrics’ TrustedBio fingerprint sensors to support the role-out of the Zwipe Pay ONE platform…

 

Face biometrics a big winner as everything from driver’s licenses to KYC goes mobile, remote

Digital identity credentials like mobile driver’s licenses and facial recognition made up many of the most-read biometrics news stories of…

 

User-controlled facial recognition enabled by Trueface encryption technique

Trueface has developed technology that it says enables facial recognition to be extended to a wide range of everyday processes and…

 

Biometric vehicle access forecasts climb, facial recognition features in more new car models

The market for biometrics in automobiles continues to see increased supply, with Cadillac, Buick, and China’s Human Horizons launching new…

 

Robust digital identity systems pay off for pandemic relief: ID4Africa livecast

Emergency response measures by governments in Africa and around the world have been significantly more successful where robust and dynamic…

 

Idex reports volume biometric sensor order from DWA, plans Nasdaq listing

Idex Biometrics has received a volume production order for biometric fingerprint sensors, both its current generation and the next-generation TrustedBio biometric-system-on-chip,…

 

Securiport introduces multi-modal in-vehicle biometrics for border crossings

Securiport has announced a new biometric product line to automate border processing for seamless passenger flow at land border and border…

 

Monaco choses IN Groupe to secure digital identity, produce biometric identity documents

IN Groupe has been selected by The Principality of Monaco to help design and secure its digital identity scheme and create…

 

DHS proposed biometrics collection expansion comment period ends with wave of criticism

The World Privacy Forum and the American Civil Liberties Union are among groups calling on the U.S. Department of Homeland…

 

Chinese draft data protection law specifies biometrics as sensitive private data

A draft of China’s proposed personal data law has reached the first review stage in the country’s legislature, Global Times reports,…

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