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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.

 

Report says IoT proliferation and insufficient access controls exposing healthcare systems to data theft

The proliferation of IoT devices in the healthcare industry, insufficient access controls, unpartitioned networks and a reliance on legacy IT…

 

Aware revenue up significantly in Q1 on higher service and biometric software sales

Aware has reported first quarter 2019 revenues of $3.7 million, up nearly 28 percent from $2.9 million in the same…

 

Apple patents in-display acoustic fingerprint biometric technology for Touch ID alternative

Apple has been granted a patent for a possible alternative Touch ID biometric fingerprint technology for device user authentication, Patently…

 

VCV.AI raises $1.7 million for robot recruiter technology with facial and voice recognition

Recruiting software startup VCV.AI has raised $1.7 million in a Seed funding round to develop its robot recruiter technology featuring…

 

U.S. Air Force awards IDenTV research contract for facial biometrics and video analytics

Computer vision company IDenTV has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract under the U.S. Air…

 

SecureKey launches federated digital ID product for Canadian bank customers

Federated identity and authentication company SecureKey Technologies has launched its digital identity network, Verified.Me, to provide customers of Canadian financial…

 

Microsoft launches machine learning computer vision toolkit

A preview of Windows Vision Skills has been launched by Microsoft to help developers implement and integrate machine learning and…

 

Yoti endorses Biometrics Institute’s ethical principles

The seven ethical principles for biometrics launched in March by the Biometrics Institute have been endorsed by Yoti, the company…

 

ImageWare raises $5M in common stock offering

ImageWare Systems is raising an estimated $5 million in gross funds in a registered direct common stock offering at a…

 

BioCatch and SecuredTouch each bring behavioral biometrics to ForgeRock

ForgeRock has added behavioral biometric technology from BioCatch and SecuredTouch to its network to help companies prevent fraud and account…

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