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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.

 

Jumio report shows online ID fraud attempts up 22 percent over Black Friday holiday period

During the 2018 Black Friday to Cyber Monday period online ID fraud attempts using government-issued IDs increased by 22 percent…

 

Supermarket deployment of biometric tech yields immediate customer loyalty benefits

The KanKan AI Retail system for large-format supermarkets, which uses facial recognition and other technologies to provide customer shopping behavior…

 

Biometrica launches continuous background check software with facial recognition

Biometrica Systems has launched a new software product with biometric facial matching to provide continuous criminal background checks and notify…

 

Adobe launches biometric selfie and ID document service to verify e-signatures

Adobe has launched a new suite of features for its Document Cloud, including Government ID Authentication with facial verification, to…

 

CLEAR provides facial and fingerprint biometrics for faster car rentals from Hertz

CLEAR is providing biometric technology to car rental giant Hertz to speed up the car rental process for customers at…

 

IARPA looks to industry for help identifying tampering with AI systems

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is proposing a TrojAI program to build tools for predicting if artificial intelligence…

 

YITU develops highly accurate Mandarin speech recognition system

YITU Technology has developed a Mandarin speech recognition system it says provides an unprecedented degree of accuracy, leveraging its artificial…

 

Element to provide software-only palm biometrics for PSI healthcare access initiative

Element is partnering with health organization Population Services International (PSI) to pilot a biometric identification platform to support community health…

 

Payments provider ACI Worldwide partners with BioCatch to reduce fraud with behavioral biometrics

Real-time payments and banking services company ACI Worldwide is leveraging behavioral biometrics from BioCatch to prevent online and mobile banking…

 

New Samsung trademark filings may indicate facial recognition coming to Galaxy S10

Samsung has filed three trademarks in Korea which seem to be related to camera functions, and possible facial recognition, of…

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