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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.

 

Biometric Exit expected to process nearly all air passengers departing U.S. within four years

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) expects its Biometric Exit program to process 97 percent of airline passengers departing…

 

Biometric driver identification market worth $10 billion and growing fast

The market for biometric driver identification systems will grow from $10 billion in 2018 by an estimated 25 percent in…

 

NEC and Nagasaki University partner for global health and biometric authentication program

NEC Corporation has partnered with Nagasaki University to establish a program on global health and biometric authentication for Nagasaki University’s…

 

Sensory launches platform for speech recognition at network edge to protect customer privacy

Sensory has announced the first full-feature release of its embedded large vocabulary speech recognition platform, TrulyNatural, to help companies create…

 

Serve integrates fingerprint biometrics to secure sensitive deliveries

On the heels of its facial biometrics integration, logistics company Serve has integrated its fingerprint recognition technology with its blockchain-based…

 

Stripe acquires biometric software provider Touchtech Payments to support GDPR requirements

With PSD2 mandating the introduction of strong customer authentication (SCA) by September 14 of this year, Stripe has acquired mobile…

 

Okta integrates Evident ID identity verification platform to reduce enterprise risk exposure

Identity and credential verification platform provider Evident ID has partnered with Okta to enable businesses to use multiple identity verification…

 

Web Payment collaboration group formed to increase security and interoperability

The FIDO Alliance, EMVCo, and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) have created a new interest group for collaboration on…

 

Reports says attention to “pipeline” has not helped diversity crisis in artificial intelligence industry

Women are severely underrepresented in the field of artificial intelligence, and visible minorities even more so, and fixing the “pipeline”…

 

Microsoft has turned down California agency and foreign government contracts for facial biometrics

A California law enforcement agency was denied the use of Microsoft biometric facial recognition technology in car and body cameras…

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