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,…
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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.
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…
Altered fingerprints on the rise in Massachusetts
Massachusetts State Police have arrested 795 suspects with deliberately altered fingerprints since 2010 in the state identified as having the…
Panasonic’s new facial recognition engine scores most accurate in NIST testing
The core engine of Panasonic Business’ new deep learning facial recognition platform Face Server, developed jointly with the National University…
Gemalto addresses biometric payment card myths
There is very minimal risk of an attacker cutting off a person’s finger to use their biometric payment card, because…
Facial recognition unicorns SenseTime and Megvii raising combined $1.6B
Investment capital continues to pour into Chinese facial recognition firms, as Bloomberg reports that SenseTime could receive nearly $1 billion…
NYC, Perth deploy public facial recognition while London ethics panel calls for greater transparency
New public deployments of facial recognition have been announced for Perth, Australia, and New York City, while an ethics panel…
Survey shows large majority of Americans thinks technology makes biases worse
Seven out of ten people believe that technology does more to amplify biases than diminish them, according to a survey…
Pilots launched for two European digital ID schemes
A pair of new digital identity schemes have been announced in Europe to allow consumers to identify themselves through their…
Indian regulatory body to shut down “Pay to Aadhaar” system
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has instructed the country’s banks to discontinue Aadhaar-based payments using the Unified Payments…
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