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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.

 

U.S. businesses using biometrics need to monitor congressional action as proposal imposes privacy obligations

Despite the unlikelihood that the National Biometric Information Privacy Act recently tabled by U.S. Senators Merkley and Sanders will pass, the…

 

Biometric documents and mobile verification market matures with next-generation technologies

Biometric identity documents and mobile digital ID were main themes of the week’s top biometrics news, with a new capability…

 

Precise Biometrics CEO reviews 2020 achieved goals, opportunities for biometric access control and payments

Precise Biometrics has met its goals of “making good profits, keeping a positive cash flow and continuing to invest in our…

 

Rank One says latest NIST test results show its consistent face biometrics accuracy and efficiency

Rank One Computing says it is the only “Western-friendly” submission in the recent Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) from the National…

 

Scytáles appoints new business development chief to lead mobile driver’s license push

Scytáles has appointed Geoff Slagle as President and Chief Business Development Officer to manage the company’s relationships in the emerging digital…

 

Rowem launches multi-channel biometric authentication platform globally

South Korea’s Rowem has announced the global launch of what the company describes as an integrated authentication platform, with biometrics…

 

Zwipe earnings climb as biometric payment cards progress, Mitek supplies HSBC with facial recognition

Zwipe has announced its first half financial results, the details of a new Mitek customer’s biometrics deployment have been revealed,…

 

European Conference on Computer Vision selects 60 SenseTime papers, face biometrics bias challenge held

SenseTime has announced that 60 papers authored or co-authored by its employees, several with implications for biometric technology, have been accepted…

 

Smartphone face biometrics can unlock homes, could soon be performed with under-display cameras

Under-display facial recognition could soon be coming to consumer electronics. OTI Lumionics has received a strategic investment from LG Technology Ventures…

 

Behavox awarded for AI data and financial compliance platform, expands Montreal office

Behavox has been declared the “Best Overall AI Solution” by AI Breakthrough for its machine-learning powered data operating platform, a year…

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