U.S. Oversight Board Member and Australian academics question airport temperature screening plans
Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Member Travis LeBlanc has written to Chad F. Wolf, acting secretary of the Department…
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Facial biometrics and smart city technology rise in Asia gets new incentive from pandemic
Facial recognition and other smart city technologies could be rolled out more quickly in Japan over the coming months, after…
Biometrics experts call for creation of FDA-style government body to regulate facial recognition
Could a U.S. government agency modeled on the Food and Drug Administration that categorizes biometric facial recognition technologies according to…
Invixium raises $3M to address new demand for touchless biometrics with temperature screening
Invixium has successfully closed a $3 million funding round to address growth opportunities amid surging demand for touchless biometrics with elevated…
Indian Supreme Court considers new review of Aadhaar national biometric scheme’s legality
The Supreme Court of India will consider requests for a review of its previous decision that the country’s biometric national…
Ping An tops object detection challenge, Trueface explains NIST face recognition speed result
An object detection model developed by Ping An Technology has set a record in the PASCAL VOC Challenge, with a mean…
Biometrics for payments and border control announcements suggest ongoing industry momentum
Surveys and analysts say the stage is set for biometric payment cards adoption in the emerging new normal, and that…
Biometric payment card commercialization coming this year says Fingerprint Cards CEO
Fingerprint biometrics companies Fingerprint Cards and Zwipe see the commercialization of biometric payment cards receiving a boost from contactless payments…
New safe work temperature screening solutions launched by Trueface, ZKTeco, LLVision and eConnect
Trueface has partnered with iryx to develop technology for contactless, passive real-time biometric facial recognition and elevated body temperature detection to…
Judge rejects “98.75 percent discount” of $550M settlement in Facebook biometric privacy case
Facebook’s $550 million settlement agreement over alleged biometric data privacy violations is in doubt, after a federal judge refused to…
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