Civil society and industry tackle issues with biometrics and digital ID for social development
What do we mean by digital identity? Can institutions and governments be trusted to run ID systems? Who should implement…
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.
Element to provide mobile biometrics for Indonesian bank for digital financial services
Element’s mobile biometric platform will provide customers of Bank Central Asia (BCA) with digital authentication in a pilot launched under…
Breached CBP contractor may have been training biometric facial recognition algorithm
Facial images of travelers and license plate data have been stolen from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) subcontractor,…
ValidSoft voice biometrics added to INTELid digital identity blockchain
Voice biometrics from ValidSoft will be integrated with the private digital identity blockchain from INTELid.io to increase the level of…
Vuzix and NNTC partner for smart glasses with facial recognition
Biometric facial recognition technology that can match up to 15 faces per frame in less than a second has been…
LogMeIn expands LastPass to provide biometric MFA for SMBs
LogMeIn has expanded the LastPass Business solutions suite to give small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) biometric-based adaptive LastPass MFA,…
SuperCom shift to biometric IoT offender monitoring yields solid Q1 results
Revenue from IoT products has increased by 55 percent year-over-year at SuperCom, driving the company’s 41 percent improvement in EBITDA…
Malaysia to consider NEC biometric technology for national digital ID program
With the Malaysian government preparing to launch its national biometric digital identification project, NEC has submitted a proposal to the…
Biometric facial recognition deployments and regulations both advance
Finnish Police and Customs have been granted permission to use automatic facial biometric technology, with the approval of a new…
Distributed ledger and biometrics startup Nodalblock appoints tech veteran President and CEO
Nodalblock has announced the appointment of Joel Leetzow as its new President and Chief Executive Officer, to advance the company’s…
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