Three emerging market think tanks to collaborate on Good ID recommendations with Omidyar backing
Omidyar Network has invested in a trio of organizations from different regions to support enhanced understanding of the appropriate use…
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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.
Google announces edge face and voice biometrics at I/O Conference
Google has launched a new smart home hub with biometric facial recognition processed at the edge, and reduced its voice…
Ipsidy cloud biometrics revenue growth continues in Q1 2019
After reporting revenue growth of nearly 61 percent in 2018, Ipsidy recorded revenue growth of 41 percent in the first…
Shanghai deploys smart city system with biometric facial recognition from Alibaba
Shanghai has deployed Alibaba Group Holding’s City Brain public surveillance system with 1,100 biometric facial recognition cameras and drones to…
IDnow appoints new CEO and CFO to bring cloud identity verification services to new markets
Identity Verification-as-a-Service provider IDnow has appointed Andreas Bodczek as CEO and Joseph Lichtenberger as CFO, with all founders returning to…
Internal CBP document shows matches in initial biometric pedestrian border checks not satisfactory
Iris and facial biometric technology used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to identify pedestrians for its Biometric Entry/Exit…
Data collection practices of voice and facial biometrics companies criticized
A pair of biometrics providers are drawing criticism for their data collection practices, and the secrecy with which they are…
IDEX patents biometric enrollment tech as leading payment scheme demos contactless cards
IDEX Biometrics has been granted a pair of comprehensive patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for on-card enrollment…
Censure of IDEMIA by Kenyan National Assembly could threaten biometric registration drive
Kenya’s National Assembly has voted to suspend IDEMIA from government contracts for 10 years, due to allegation of a violation…
Deep Glint says revenues grew by 7x last year as facial biometrics capture criminal after 20 years
Police in China have used biometric facial recognition from Deep Glint to catch a criminal who had been on the…
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