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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.

 

Nuance biometrics technology saved customers $1B in fraud costs last year

The biometrics-based Nuance Security Suite has saved organizations more than $1 billion in total fraud costs in 2018 while enabling…

 

Yoti partners with FaceTec for biometric authentication with liveness detection

Yoti is integrating FaceTec’s ZoOm 3D Authentication with TrueLiveness to boost the biometric security of its digital identity offerings and…

 

Google develops on-device real-time speech recognition with new neural network technique

Google is rolling out an end-to-end on-device speech recognition technology entirely driven by neural networks for speech input in its…

 

Efforts to ensure ethical use of biometric surveillance technology face scrutiny

IBM’s role in surveillance systems allegedly used to carry out extra-judicial killings directed by Rodrigo Duterte prior to becoming president…

 

Chief Bias Officer position may be necessary to combat algorithmic bias

While many companies continue to debate how to shape their executive teams in response to increasing digitization, and whether they…

 

IDEMIA to verify ID documents for Pearson VUE exams

Identity verification technology from IDEMIA has been selected to check the identity credentials of end-users of Pearson VUE’s remote online…

 

Startup Alcatraz AI launches enterprise platform for frictionless access control with facial biometrics

Startup Alcatraz AI, which provides facial authentication for frictionless biometric access control for enterprises, has launched a full-stack platform with…

 

MYPINPAD to offer financial institutions app development sandbox with AimBrain biometrics

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) provider MYPINPAD has partnered with AimBrain to offer financial institutions a secure sandbox environment in which to…

 

Blink Identity and EyeLock CEOs among biometric experts featured at KNOW Conference

Executives from biometrics companies will be among the speakers at KNOW Conference, including Blink Identity Co-founder and CEO Mary Haskett…

 

Extension of voice biometrics to predict health and behavior raises privacy concerns

Voice biometrics are increasingly being proposed and used not just to determine who people are, but for voice analysis to…

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