Aflac Japan to secure mobile biometric insurance payments with Nok Nok Labs’ biometrics
Customer of insurance provider Aflac Japan are now able to request “immediate payment service” for cancer treatment on mobile devices…
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SEC ruling sets up potential legal clash between Amazon and shareholders over biometric sales
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ruled that an Amazon shareholder’s proposal to release more information about the…
Gemalto now known as Thales Digital Identity and Security with acquisition completed
Thales has completed the €4.8 billion acquisition of Gemalto, forming a global security giant to offer biometrics and other digital…
Veridium joins Mastercard accelerator to scale biometric authentication platform
Veridium has announced that it has been selected to join the Mastercard Start Path accelerator program, in recognition of its…
BIO-key expects positive net income this year as deferred biometric software sales roll in
BIO-key finished 2018 with reported full-year earnings of $4 million, but also a software license deployment the company says is…
BehavioSec behavioral biometrics identified as top option for enterprise mobile authentication
Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. (EMA) has published a new Top 3 Report and Decision Guide including BehavioSec as a top…
ImageWare reports mostly flat earnings as it shifts biometric portfolio to cloud and mobile
ImageWare Systems has reported a 2.6 percent increase in revenue from its biometric portfolio for fiscal 2018 to $4.4 million…
HID Global launches cloud Authentication Service for enterprise on-boarding and IAM
HID Global has launched its new HID Authentication Service to simplify leveraging biometrics and other factors for user onboarding and…
Airport biometric deployments to grow at 27 CAGR as market takes off
The number of biometric touchpoints at airports will increase by 27 percent CAGR between this year and 2022, but will…
Tech giants and civil society seek to institutionalize AI ethics
As artificial intelligence becomes more controversial, tech giants are putting together councils and review processes to ensure ethical uses of…
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