Panasonic to supply facial recognition and real-time sensing technologies for supply chain solutions
JDA Software and Panasonic have announced a joint partnership to develop integrated solutions based on the JDA Luminate family of…
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Amazon shareholder proposal requests civil rights review before selling facial recognition tech
A shareholder proposal organized by corporate activist non-profit Open MIC asks that Amazon halt its sales of facial recognition technology…
Frost & Sullivan predict mobile biometrics growth in APAC region driven by smart devices
The proliferation of smart devices is one of the key factors driving the growth of biometrics adoption in the Asia-Pacific…
Canadian banks suggest biometrics and federated ID to support digital economy
Canada needs to create a digital identification system leveraging new technologies like biometrics, blockchain, and live video document review to…
Computer vision startup alwaysAI raises $4M for IoT development platform
Computer vision startup alwaysAI has closed a $4 million Series A funding round, which it intends to use to broaden…
NEC provides demo real-time facial recognition system for 5G lab
NEC has announced that the DOCOMO 5G Open Lab OKINAWA has provisioned a demo facial recognition system leveraging Multi-access Edge…
Insurer claims policy excludes Illinois biometrics lawsuit
An insurance company has asked an Illinois state judge to declare it not responsible for covering a grocery store chain…
Hong Kong International Airport expands facial recognition to boarding gates
Hong Kong’s Airport Authority has shared its plans to deploy facial recognition at boarding gates as part of a HK$2…
Breakthrough year ahead for biometric payment cards: industry insights and predictions
After a series of breakthroughs in fingerprint sensor manufacturing, new architectures such as system-on-chip (SOC), and power harvesting in recent…
Large coalition of groups calls on tech giants to commit to no facial biometrics for government
A coalition of more than 85 advocacy groups has written Amazon, Google, and Microsoft to ask them not to provide…
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