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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.

 

Biometrics and digital ID providers launch health credential, detection and temperature screening for COVID-19 recovery

The newest wave of products and initiatives for COVID-19 safety from biometrics and digital ID innovators includes a health credential…

 

Facial recognition needs auditing and ethics standards to be safe, AI Now bias critic argues

The artificial intelligence community needs to begin developing the vocabulary to define and clearly explain the harms the technology can…

 

Biometric heart monitor and depth mapping for gesture recognition described in Apple patent filings

A biometric monitor for measuring heart health is among several patent filings from Apple to be published recently, Patently Apple reports….

 

Biometrics leaders added by five organizations and sought by two more as outlooks remain strong

Staffing and board appointments have been announced by SAFR, AnyVision, Q5id, Callsign, and the Identity Defined Security Alliance, while Booz…

 

Payments with face biometrics for vending machines and transit, iris recognition at shops unveiled

NEC’s Bio-IDiom facial recognition technology has been integrated by Japanese vending machine operator DyDo, known for automated retail devices that…

 

Credence ID updates mobile biometric device management platform with new capabilities

Credence ID has launched an updated version of its CredenceCONNECT platform for biometric and mobile ID management. The new CredenceCONNECT Version…

 

Suprema slim fingerprint biometrics module integrated by Elyctis with eID and ePassport readers

Suprema ID’s FAP 20-certified BM-Slim2 fingerprint module is being integrated into the new Elyctis ID Box One 152 and 341 eID…

 

SuperCom raises $3.2M to support health and security biometrics growth

SuperCom is the latest publicly traded biometrics company to raise funds with a share placement, as Ping Identity shareholders look…

 

Fingerprint Cards and STMicroelectronics co-develop Biometric System-on-Card platform

Fingerprint Cards and STMicroelectronics have partnered to develop a Biometric System-on-Card (BSoC) solution to bring to the contactless fingerprint payment card market….

 

First half 2020 results for ID R&D show biometric authentication reaching mainstream

A combination of factors have driven ID R&D to three times more customer signups in the second quarter of its fiscal…

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