Self-sovereign identity community discusses the future of digital ID at IIW XXIX
Can biometrics play a role in self-sovereign identity? Some attendees of the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) are resistant to the…
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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.
Thales details plans for integrating Gemalto biometrics and digital identity business
The integration of Gemalto into Thales “Digital Identity and Security” (DIS) will result in average organic sales growth of four…
Principles for self-sovereign biometrics planned at Internet Identity Workshop
A group of decentralized identity and biometrics stakeholders at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) XXIX have agreed on the framework…
NEC tops several NIST Facial Recognition Vendor Test categories as accuracy at scale improves
Biometric algorithms from NEC have ranked first or second in several accuracy categories in the latest version of NIST’s Facial…
Airport biometrics implementations for Digi Yatra, TSA, CBP, Australia Border Force advance
Three gates from NEC with facial recognition are being launched at Lohegaon airport in Pune, India as part of the…
Croatian government introduces biometrics bill to support EES interoperability
The government of Croatia has put forward legislation to provide the framework for new biometrics collection processes to ensure border…
Almost three quarters of UK adults have never heard of deepfakes
Nearly three out of four UK adults (72 percent) say they have never heard of deepfake videos, according to survey…
Regulation and safeguards for facial recognition pondered in France, China, and Jamaica
The local government of Nice, France has been trialling biometric facial recognition software after deploying more than 2,600 CCTV cameras,…
Sensetime partners with China Tower for massive biometric video surveillance network
Sensetime has formed a partnership with network infrastructure provider China Tower to implement a massive video surveillance network with biometric…
Bovia introduces new edge facial biometrics technologies for fast recognition
Taiwan-based mobile video and cloud service company Bovia has introduced a pair of surveillance camera products to provide edge biometric…
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