Singapore could soon have more than one thousand biometric vending machines
Singaporean company Le Tach Pte. Is planning to expand the number of its vending machine that support payments with facial…
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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.
Indian government considering QR code-based offline Aadhaar customer verification for bank services
India’s government and reserve bank are negotiating to allow the use of the secure digitally-signed QR code introduced by the…
One Identity modular IAM technology to be distributed by Nuvias in UK
Cybersecurity distributor Nuvias has been chosen as the UK distributor for identity and access management provider One Identity. One Identity…
ForgeRock adds AimBrain biometric modules and expands support for cloud deployments
AimBrain’s five biometric authentication modules have been added to the ForgeRock Trust Network, bringing both visible and invisible server-side authentication…
Nuance to provide voice biometrics for largest bank in Ireland
Ireland’s largest bank is deploying Nuance Communications’ voice biometrics to its Contact Center to make customer service access more seamless…
Facial recognition 20 times more accurate with advances in convolutional neural networks, NIST finds
Facial recognition algorithms can identify matches with error rates as low as 0.2 percent given good quality photos, 20 times…
UK Commissioner opens investigation into police use of facial recognition
UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has launched a formal investigation into the legality and effectiveness of facial recognition technology used…
Australian worker refusing to use biometric time and attendance loses unfair dismissal claim
A bid by an Australian sawmill worker to have his job restored after he was fired for refusing to participate…
Bogus fitness apps leverage biometrics to steal money from iOS users
Multiple apps recently banned from the Apple App Store stole money from iOS users by activating a payment mechanism while…
HID Global extends mobile citizen ID management system to complete solution
HID Global has extended the capabilities of its HID goID government ID solution to provide an end-to-end mobile citizen ID…
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