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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.

 

Signicat partners with German identity scheme to simplify onboarding and authentication

Signicat will integrate the new German identity scheme yes.com into its Digital Identity Platform under a new partnership to streamline…

 

Teardowns show possible Android Q support for facial biometric payments and app sign-in

Details of the new biometric facial authentication features coming to Android have been revealed by teardowns of Android Q Beta…

 

Subsidized Ring doorbell cameras could give police public surveillance network

Police departments all around the U.S. are offering people free or discounted Ring doorbells, in some cases funded by taxpayers,…

 

Megvii cleared of supplying biometrics for Chinese surveillance app but may still delay IPO

Biometric facial recognition technology from Megvii’s Face++ was not in fact used in the Integrated Joint Operations Platform (IJOP) used…

 

As biometric facial recognition technology spreads, privacy concerns follow

Biometric facial recognition will soon play a major role in a range of activities from travel to shopping and buying…

 

NtechLab plans activity detection product after second place finish in NIST prize challenge

NtechLab has placed second in the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) Activity Extended Video (ActEV) Prize Challenge for…

 

MS Celeb and other facial biometrics datasets taken down

Several public facial recognition data sets have been deleted, including a Microsoft database of 10 million faces which is reported…

 

NEC and Simprints join forces with Gavi to extend vaccination coverage with biometrics

In an effort to deploy a scalable child fingerprint identification solution they say will be the world’s first, NEC, Simprints,…

 

Adaptive behavioral biometrics introduced by Featurespace to prevent onboarding fraud

Risk prevention company Featurespace introduced Adaptive Behavioral Biometrics to its ARIC Fraud Hub to detect and prevent fraud during customer…

 

Five new OneLogin Accelerate EMEA partners announced for unified access management growth

OneLogin has announced a string of partnerships, including with Atlas Identity, expanding its partner program in the EMEA region. Atlas…

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