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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.

 

Orange County joins Florida elections boards using BIO-key fingerprint biometric to authenticate staff

The County Supervisor of Elections for Orange County, Florida has selected biometric technology from BIO-key to provide strong security for…

 

Evident ID launches enterprise account recovery with facial biometrics and liveness

Evident ID has launched a new Enterprise Account Recovery offering with facial biometrics and liveness detection to help organizations reduce…

 

Local investment and biometric privacy protection key BIO-key Africa strategy, executive says

BIO-key Africa is planning a country by country strategy, and anticipates adding two dedicated business development resources to cover its…

 

Airport biometrics use grows in Beijing, Rome, San Fran, Tokyo and Delhi as Schiphol spoofed

Facial recognition is now live for certain travelers for a range of processes at the Beijing Daxing International Airport, including…

 

New datasets for biometric research on multimodal and interoperable performance launched by NIST

NIST has launched new datasets, consisting of fingerprint, facial photographs, and iris scans, to help biometrics researchers to evaluate the…

 

Amazon argues Alexa terms of service undercut biometric privacy claims as BIPA defenses considered

The terms of service provided by Amazon for its voice assistant Alexa specify the company’s policies for use and storage…

 

San Diego to suspend police and ICE facial biometrics system to comply with new state law

The Tactical Identification System (TACIDS) used for biometric facial recognition by more than 30 agencies in San Diego, California, will…

 

New capabilities to compliment voice biometrics announced by Sensory, AWS, LumenVox

Sensory has announced support for multiple wake words among a set of new capabilities for its TrulyHandsfree offering, enabling custom…

 

Senators make their case for proposed U.S. facial biometrics law at Brookings

A recent panel discussion was hosted by the Brookings Institute to discuss how the U.S. government and law enforcement officials…

 

Biometrics stocks news: AMS reaches Osram deal, RealNetworks, FPC, Google-Fitbit and OneConnect

AMS has emerged victorious from the bidding war over Osram, picking up 55 percent of the company’s shares with a…

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