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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.

 

HID launches new smart card to eliminate passwords

HID Global has announced a new smart card product utilizing digital certificates on user mobile devices to perform client authentication….

 

Amazon provides facial recognition for new platform to locate missing children

The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) has announced the launch of a new global platform, dubbed GMCNgine,…

 

Yoti reveals planned facial age verification for major retailer in first birthday update

Yoti Age Scan will soon provide AI age estimation at self-checkouts for one of the largest retailers in the world,…

 

South Wales Police facial recognition system accuracy improving but in-the-wild results lag

Improvements to the facial recognition system used by South Wales Police has raised the technology’s effectiveness to confirmed match rates…

 

Startup Acceptto launches biometric and contextual multi-factor authentication platform

Cybersecurity startup Acceptto has emerged from stealth to launch its password-less Cognitive Authentication platform for authentication and identity access management…

 

Tapway launches biometric business intelligence system for physical stores

Business intelligence startup Tapway has launched a facial recognition product to provide customer identity information and analytics to physical business…

 

HID Global launches new high-speed ID card printer

HID Global has introduced a new ID card retransfer printer which it says delivers breakthrough speed to save ID card…

 

Hong Kong and Tsinghua universities partner to support AI innovation

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has formed a partnership with Beijing’s Tsinghua University to develop new technologies based on…

 

Indian government continues to work out Aadhaar biometric and KYC rules

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) says that while Aadhaar account holders can block their biometrics, they cannot exit…

 

Onfido to provide biometric onboarding for financial inclusion blockchain network WORBLI

Blockchain network WORBLI has selected Onfido to provide it with machine learning-based identity verification technology to meet KYC and AML…

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