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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.

 

Digital imaging pioneer Eric Fossum says future sensors could revolutionize biometrics, and urges caution

Professor Eric Fossum is concerned about the double-edged sword that powerful technologies, like those behind biometrics, represent. Connecting with Fossum…

 

Jumio biometrics selected by ASAPP to secure remote financial services for Canadian credit unions

Jumio’s biometric authentication technology is being integrated into the forthcoming Asapp 11.0 release to give Canadian credit unions end-to-end identity…

 

Biometrics providers Alcatraz, OneSpan and RealNetworks add leaders to drive expansions

Alcatraz has appointed Holley Hunt to be the company’s director of business development and lead its pursuit of new business opportunities…

 

US DOJ wants biometric identification SDK for prisoner transfer application

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Marshals Service has announced a contract opportunity to supply a software development kit to build…

 

Five9 launches voice biometrics cloud developer service, voice recognition market to add $2.6B by 2024

Five9 has announced the launch of a new cloud voice biometric service for contact center solution developers to help them leverage…

 

Biometric solutions for pandemic mitigation rolled out by Vivera, Salarium, Luxand, Invento Robotics

Biometric technology continues to feature prominently in technologies and solutions developed to help fight against COVID-19 and return people’s lives…

 

Aadhaar biometric authentication expands to good governance measures as state plans welfare fraud crackdown

India’s government continues to expand the role of biometric authentication through the Aadhaar system, issuing rules in the lower chamber…

 

Biometrics will help make higher purchase limits permanent amid cashless push: Mastercard exec

Biometric authentication will allow contactless digital payment limits to be kept higher than would otherwise be possible, a Mastercard executive said…

 

Majority of Americans want biometrics for health record access and sharing, Pew survey finds

Biometrics are the first choice of patient health record identifier by 54 percent of American adults, according to a survey…

 

Six of eight claims in IBM biometric data privacy suit upheld as dismissal rejected

Two items of a motion to dismiss a biometric data privacy lawsuit by IBM have been granted, though a federal…

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