Deployment starts for VSBLTY’s $10M facial recognition smart city contract with Mexico City
Partners VSBLTY and intelligent lighting solution provider Energetika have begun deploying their smart city security systems in Mexico City under…
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Dermalog biometrics catch 88,000 fraudulent votes but no results yet in Afghanistan election
Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission has postponed the announcement of results in the country’s presidential election, Reuters reports, though biometric voter…
Facial recognition systems for retail payment launched in Spain, trialed in Australia, company acquired
Australian fintech company RoyalPay is planning to bring facial recognition payments into the country’s mainstream commercial sector, The Sydney Morning…
Idex Biometrics to supply dual-interface sensor for secure access card, reports Q3 amid changes
The biometric smart card market is coming online just as fingerprint companies transition their operations to survive the radical market…
ImageWare and Remark report modest Q3 results and biometrics market opportunities
Revenues for multi-factor authentication and biometric technology grew to $785,000 for ImageWare Systems in the third quarter of fiscal 2019,…
Nok Nok and Yubico integrate authentication technology
Nok Nok Labs and Yubico have announced an optimized integration of the former’s enterprise authentication software and the latter’s hardware…
Biometrics vendors named in Illinois privacy lawsuits
Biometrics vendors serving customers in Illinois should be aware that suits targeting time-and-attendance system suppliers are the latest flavor of…
Streaming giants attack password sharing
A new front seems to be opening up in the emerging struggle between the password and biometrics. Netflix, HBO, and…
Elektra Labs launches biometric monitoring platform and raises $2.9M seed funding
Healthcare security startup Elektra Labs has launched a new management product for biometric monitoring technologies and announced a $2.9 million…
Ping Identity shares Colorado Digital ID details as Signicat adds qualified electronic signatures
Digital identity companies continue to partner up to meet the stringent demands associated with government ID and digital transactions. The…
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