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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.

 

Biometric authentication from browser now supported by eBay as passwords continue to fail users

Passwords and other knowledge-based authentication (KBA) methods continue to lose ground to biometrics and public key cryptography, with a new…

 

New AI computer vision software released by Fujitsu to ease behavior recognition training

Fujitsu has developed a new artificial intelligence-based method of performing behavioral analysis on video footage, which it says can recognize…

 

Kronos wins reduction of biometric data privacy suit scope amid shifting legal landscape

Biometrics vendors have notched another victory in the tsunami of lawsuits filed under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), as…

 

Imprivata upgrades OneSign biometric application security, partners with Modeus

Imprivata has unveiled OneSign 7.0 with Imprivata Web SSO for seamless, more secure fingerprint biometric access to on-premise and cloud…

 

Nymi biometric wearables bring continuous authentication to Xyntek enterprise platform

Xyntek Incorporated has partnered with Nymi to offer its pharmaceutical and life sciences customers biometric wearables for use with its…

 

ForgeRock extends support for AWS to ease identity federation across different environments

ForgeRock is now offering expanded support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enhance businesses’ control over AWS resource access, the…

 

Biometrics checks expand at Southwest U.S. border and Seattle Port as EFF seeks data collection info

Biometric facial recognition has been introduced by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the El Paso Port of Entry…

 

Vsblty to provide biometric technology for ZA smart city projects as shape of future projects considered

Vsblty has announced a pair of security deployments as part of safe community initiatives in South Africa, including biometric facial…

 

Major biometrics IPO delayed as committee requests more info from Megvii

Regulators in Hong Kong have asked Megvii for more information on its planned initial public offering (IPO), in what Reuters…

 

EFF launches campaign for local bans on government use of facial recognition

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched a campaign to empower people in the U.S. working against the use of…

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