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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.

 

Close to 20 million Aadhaar records could have mixed biometrics

Between 1 and 1.5 percent of all Aadhaar enrollments over the past seven years, or between 13 and 19 million,…

 

Big Brother Watch takes UK police to court over use of public facial recognition as trials continue

Civil liberties group Big Brother Watch has filed a legal challenge to the use of automatic facial recognition by UK…

 

B-Secur partners with Analog Devices to bring ECG biometrics to automotive market

Belfast-based biometrics company B-Secur and Analog Devices (ADI) have announced the joint development of an authentication solution to control automobile…

 

SensibleVision CEO George Brostoff criticizes Microsoft call for facial recognition regulation

The specific modality being used is not the most appropriate criteria for applying government regulation to biometrics, according to a…

 

Amazon to continue selling facial recognition technology to law enforcement

Amazon will not make any changes to the way it markets and provides facial recognition and other technologies to U.S….

 

Israeli media reports FST Biometrics is shutting down

FST Biometrics is shutting down after 11 years of providing facial recognition and behavioral biometrics, according to reports in a…

 

Critics charge Scottish Biometrics Commissioner will lack scope, enforcement power

Public interest advocates have criticized the Scottish government’s plans to create a Biometrics Commissioner, saying the position would hold less…

 

Herta finishes in top 3 at biometric technology rally hosted by Homeland Security and NIST

Herta has placed in the top three facial recognition vendors, with scores among the highest for efficiency, customer satisfaction, and…

 

Rights group calls on Australia to prohibit biometric mass surveillance

Human rights advocacy group Access Now has panned Australia’s lack of attention to human rights while implementing its digitization agenda,…

 

Nuance biometric authentication suite saves multinational bank $24 million in three years

A Fortune 100 multinational bank has saved $24 million over three years in avoided fraud incidents and operational savings by…

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