Card-makers group highlights biometrics benefits as Fingerprint Cards touts growing popularity
Biometric cards will give merchants, issuers and consumers real returns on their investments with both contactless card adoption and fraud…
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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.
BioCatch $145M Series C funding round to expand behavioral biometrics offerings and verticals served
BioCatch has closed a $145 million Series C investment round to broaden its portfolio of behavioral biometrics offerings, accelerate the…
Korean virtual asset exchange joins MyID Alliance and implements distributed biometric identification
Virtual asset exchange Bithumb Korea will adopt the MyID blockchain and biometrics-based digital ID service to streamline identity authentication and…
Infinity Optics wins Frost & Sullivan innovation award for QuantumCrypt biometric hashing technology
The QuantumCrypt biometric cryptography platform from Infinity Optics has been recognized with the 2020 Global New Product Innovation Award from…
Speech Technology Center facial biometrics implemented at FC Zenit’s new home stadium
Speech Technology Center has launched its biometric facial identification system to FC Zenit’s home stadium Gazprom Arena to increase security…
Facial biometrics loophole highlighted by World Privacy Forum report on U.S. schools
One of the top biometrics news stories of the young 2020 calendar year pops up in the middle of the…
Mizuho Bank to launch trial of facial biometrics-backed digital ID service for online banking
Mizuho Bank is launching a proof-of-concept trial of its digital ID service, which leverages facial biometrics and device location information…
Toronto Police talk responsible use of NEC facial recognition in first case to identify murderers
The initial use of the Toronto Police Service’s facial recognition is examined in some depth by The Toronto Star, which…
Pakistan mobile providers request lower biometric verification fees from NADRA
One of the first orders of business of a new industry group for mobile network operators in Pakistan is having…
E-signature demand spikes around the world to support remote transactions
E-signatures are among the many technologies supporting digital identity transactions more than ever with much of the world on stay-at-home…
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