Afghanistan biometric voting improved but imperfect
The people of Afghanistan have voted in Presidential elections using biometric voter authentication systems intended to prevent voter fraud and…
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New ZoOm update from FaceTec enhances biometric capture process
FaceTec has released a major update of its ZoOm biometric facial recognition and identity authentication software with new features to…
A third of European consumers want biometrics to speed up financial service onboarding
Financial service providers are not taking full enough advantage of biometrics to speed up onboarding processes, 34 percent of European…
Social inclusion and executive appointments lead this week’s biometrics and digital ID news
New image capturing technology for biometrics featured in Biometric Update’s two most frequently-read stories of the week in biometrics and…
Biometrics are in and anonymity out so fight for democratic rights, FedID keynote argues
Civil libertarians should not fear facial recognition and other biometrics, but the technologies must be correctly regulated to prevent negative…
Rights groups urge Scotland to grant Biometrics Commissioner broad oversight mandate
A coalition of rights advocacy groups has called on Scotland’s government to expand the scope of the proposed biometrics commissioner…
Vision-Box biometric departure smartgates deal with Australia extended to 2026
Australia’s Department of Home Affairs and Vision-Box have agreed to a five-year contract to extend the biometric SmartGates Departures Program…
Goodix demonstrates IoT solutions and biometrics for cars at Apsara Conference
Goodix is demonstrating its latest IoT products and smart applications based on its IoT platform’s core technologies at Alibaba Cloud’s…
HID Global to target Indian biometrics and smart card market in 2020
India will be a major emerging target market for HID Global in 2020, Indian publication Dataquest reports as the company…
Amazon working on facial recognition regulation as groups write Congress to oppose bans
It makes a lot of sense to regulate biometric facial recognition technology, according to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who revealed…
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