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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.

 

BBVA extends mobile biometric enrollment to all potential customers

Spanish bank BBVA has added the capability to enroll self-employed people as new business customers through a remote digital process…

 

San Jose to become first all-biometric airport on U.S. West Coast for international travel

Mineta San Jose International Airport will become the first airport on the West Coast of the U.S. to identify every…

 

ImageWare reports 31 percent 1H revenue increase

ImageWare Systems reported second quarter revenue for 2018 of $1.9 million, 78 percent higher than the same quarter in 2017,…

 

U.S. officials weigh introducing biometric exit data rules for partners

Federal officials are considering writing protections for the biometric data of travelers into the rules of the biometric exit program,…

 

Google researchers develop method for improved mobile facial recognition algorithm performance

A team of Google researchers has developed a method of AI model selection that avoids the computational trade-off of slowness…

 

U.S. visitor overstays motivating biometric exit continue gradual decline

The number of suspected in-country overstays by U.S. visitors in 2017 declined to just under 607,000 from just under 629,000…

 

IBM researchers develop biometric malware to prepare for AI vs. AI future

A team of researchers from IBM’s cybersecurity division have created an artificially-intelligent, biometric malware called DeepLocker that can work with…

 

Ipsidy raises $9.6 million in stock subscription and reports Q2 earnings

Ipsidy has announced another significant increase in revenues in its recently-closed second quarter, along with a $9.6 million equity funding…

 

NEC unveils automated facial recognition system for fast athlete processing at Tokyo 2020 Olympics

NEC has unveiled the facial recognition systems which will be used at all venues in the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympic…

 

Apple patents method for bringing FaceID and gesture recognition to Macs

Apple has been granted 52 new patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, some of which describe the adoption…

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