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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.

 

Biometrics research briefs: face matching software in India, Asia-Pacific and global mobile market

The Indian market for cloud-based 1:N facial matching is among the next hot biometrics markets, according to a new market…

 

Facebook and Microsoft make changes as scrutiny of AI training methods continues

Facebook is the latest company to admit to paying contractors to listen to audio recordings of its services users, with…

 

Telia demonstrates 5G network with facial biometric payments to ice cream truck

Telecom Telia has demonstrated the power of its Finnish 5G network, installed by Nokia, by using biometric facial recognition for…

 

Australia Digital Transformation Agency to integrate biometrics with myGov this year

Australia’s Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) is about to begin replacing the existing myGov authentication system with the new myGovID, iTnews.com.au…

 

Telpo targets biometric access control market with facial recognition terminal

Telpo has introduced a new biometric face recognition terminal to provide physical access control to businesses and government organizations, according…

 

Millions of unencrypted biometric fingerprint and face records exposed to web; Suprema responds

Internet privacy researchers have found a huge database of publicly exposed, unencrypted biometric fingerprint and facial images from thousands of…

 

Tascent facial recognition excels at DHS 2019 Biometric Technology Rally

Tascent has delivered the highest biometric facial recognition accuracy, highest efficiency, and highest customer satisfaction among all 14 leading competitors…

 

ACLU calls out Amazon biometrics in fight to ban facial recognition

The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU) has used Amazon Rekognition facial recognition to match one in five…

 

Philippines central bank targets 23 million biometric national ID cards in 2020

Philippines central bank is planning to produce 23 million biometric national IDs with fingerprint, iris and facial data in 2020,…

 

UK authority extends PSD2 strong customer authentication deadline by 18 months

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has agreed to delay rules for Secure Customer Authentication (SCA) with two factors among…

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