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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.

 

Healthcare organizations relying on legacy patient identity management technologies

More than half of healthcare organizations (58 percent) consider their patient portals to have above average or superior cybersecurity, despite…

 

Callsign to provide digital customer identification and authentication for Lloyds Banking Group

Lloyds Banking Group will roll out Callsign’s platform for digital identification and authentication of customers across its core brands, according…

 

CPI Card Group and Fit Pay collaborate on contactless payment token

Payment technology company CPI Card Group is collaborating with Nxt-ID subsidiary Fit Pay on a new contactless payment device roughly…

 

Biometric flight boarding trialed by Air France-KLM at two U.S. airports

Air France-KLM is expanding its use of biometrics with trials at John F Kennedy (JFK) International Airport and George Bush…

 

Biometrics research briefs: brain fingerprinting, AI, IDaaS and facial recognition

Major growth is forecasted for cloud-based biometrics services, which could surpass $26 billion in revenue by 2027. Market research this…

 

Google responds to leak of audio data from AI assistant reviewer

A language reviewer under contract to Google to analyze samples of voice data collected by its Google Assistant software has…

 

Taking biometric ID from rumors to government service delivery in Kenya

Kenya’s national ID project Huduma Namba was a topic of much discussion at ID4Africa 2019 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The…

 

CBP tells House Committee biometric programs legal and beneficial

The Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies faced criticism and pointed questions about privacy, security, and discrimination issues…

 

Changing privacy and data protection laws could change casino biometrics use

Casinos in the U.S. have used facial recognition since the 1990s, but those deployments may have to be adjusted based…

 

New production facility for biometric bank cards opened in Italy by SIA

Financial services technology company SIA has inaugurated a new specialized technological excellence center for payment cards in Verona, Italy, which…

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