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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.

 

Sightcorp deep learning method improves biometric face detection at challenging angles

Artificial intelligence software company Sightcorp has developed improved biometric facial detection capabilities for facial analysis and recognition software based on…

 

Ever AI rebrands as Paravision and tops NIST facial biometrics 1:1 leaderboard

The National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) has published a new Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 1:1 Leaderboard, which…

 

SITA says aviation industry on board with biometrics for single travel token

The air travel industry is working together toward a common goal of enabling all commercial air travel processes with a…

 

Facebook biometric privacy lawsuit to proceed as class action after denied appeal

Facebook has been denied a motion to prevent a suit filed under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act from proceeding as…

 

Police app, robot cops and schools get facial biometrics, while NYC considers surveillance transparency

South Wales Police are planning to trial a smartphone app with biometric facial recognition from NEC with 50 officers to…

 

UK Post Office offers digital identity services on government marketplace

The UK Post Office has joined the Government Digital Framework’s GCloud11 marketplace to offer a suite of online and in-person…

 

Microsoft contractor reveals Skype human annotation of user conversations

Microsoft contractors working on Skype’s translation function have been discovered to be listening to recordings of user conversations, in the…

 

U.S. Real ID driver’s license implementations face problems ahead of October 2020 launch

The implementation of the U.S. government’s Real ID system, which is supposed to grant holders of the secure driver’s licenses…

 

Third-party audit shows no discrepancies in biometric remote voting with Voatz app

A third-party audit of voting using the biometric Voatz app for elections in Denver has been completed by the National…

 

Mastercard involved in several new biometrics-backed payment systems

Mastercard has launched a mobile authentication solution featuring behavioral biometrics in India to increase security and reduce friction in e-commerce…

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