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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.

 

Australian government official tells parliamentary inquiry changes future-proof biometric legislation

Australia’s proposed national facial recognition service is “not intended for mass surveillance,” a government official has told a parliamentary inquiry…

 

Texas school district to deploy biometric time and attendance solution for hourly workers

San Benito school district in Texas is purchasing a fingerprint software system to track the time and attendance of its…

 

SuperCom reports significantly improved margins as CEO buys up stock

SuperCom has reported significant improvements in gross profit, EBITDA margin and earnings per share in the second quarter that the…

 

Rising tide lifts biometric digital identity verification providers

In the midst of the booming biometrics industry, digital identity verification stands out as an area which has gone through…

 

Biometrics Institute announces workshops in collaboration with UN Counter-Terrorism agencies

The Biometrics Institute and the Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED) are moving forward with the next phase of their joint collaboration…

 

IDEX reports slow quarter but expects volume shipments for biometric cards soon

Sales of IDEX fingerprint products came to a near-standstill in the second quarter, but the company anticipates volume orders of…

 

Alcor Consulting to resell Enacomm’s AI-based voice banking solutions

Enacomm has reached a reseller agreement with VoIP related products and services provider Alcor Consulting to offer its voice biometrics…

 

Facial recognition feature in development for Google Assistant

A new Google Assistant feature called “Face Match” has been found in the code of the latest version of the…

 

Palm vein biometric technology from Imprivata to secure patient records at U.S. healthcare network

Missouri-based healthcare provider CoxHealth will deploy Imprivata’s PatientSecure palm vein biometric verification technology to ease the customer check-in process while…

 

Voice and speech recognition predicted to reach $6.9B by 2025 as Alexa-powered banking trials launch

The global market for voice and speech recognition technology is expected to vault from $1.1 billion in 2017 to $6.9…

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