Analyst says 2021 iPhones to feature in-display fingerprint biometrics and Face ID
Touch ID fingerprint recognition will be returning to iPhones in under-display form in 2021, joining Face ID as native biometrics…
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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.
Tech giants change human review policies for recordings of AI assistant interactions
Both Google and Amazon have followed Apple in changing their policies for human review of voice assistant recordings to head…
UK and Singapore government services to collaborate on digital government services
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed by the UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS) and Singapore’s GovTech Agency to…
ID R&D launches passive biometric facial liveness detection to beat fraud with frictionless experience
ID R&D has launched a wholly passive facial liveness detection capability to remove friction to the user experience, which it…
Optical sensor makers ride facial recognition and photography demand as smartphone sales sag
Companies making sensors for smartphone cameras and biometric facial recognition systems are preparing for a mini boom, even as the…
Computop launches FIDO-compliant biometric authentication service for online merchants
Payment processor Computop has launched a new PSD2 compliant biometric authentication service for online merchants and banks to allow strong…
Veri5Digital raises $2 million to ramp up Aadhaar biometric services and international presence
Biometric identity verification startup Veri5Digital has raised $2 million in a Series A funding round to scale its identity solutions…
Payments, travel, and facial recognition top this week’s biometrics and digital ID news
Biometrics, and in particular facial recognition, for payments and travel dominated the most-read stories on Biometric Update for the past…
Cambridge moves forward with biometric facial recognition ban as police refine uses
The city council of Cambridge, Massachusetts has approved a bill prohibiting the use of biometric facial recognition by local government…
Trueface raises $3.7M to grow real-time facial biometrics business
Trueface has raised $3.7 million to scale its team and grow partnerships and market share for its real-time biometric facial…
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