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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 Foreign Affairs seeks automated process for applying facial biometrics

The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has admitted shortcomings in the way it processes requests to use…

 

NEC iris recognition achieves highest matching accuracy in NIST testing

NEC has announced that its Bio-IDiom iris algorithm has been recognized as having the highest matching accuracy in the recent…

 

BrainChip Studio integrated within Veritone aiWARE artificial intelligence platform

BrainChip has reached an agreement with Veritone to integrate its BrainChip Studio with the Veritone aiWARE operating system for artificial…

 

UnifyID launches passive authentication platform powered by behavioral biometrics

Passive authentication startup UnifyID has announced its frictionless online and physical dynamic probability and confidence scoring technology has reached general…

 

Optimism for universal identity abounds as ID4Africa 2018 concludes

ID4Africa 2018 wrapped up Thursday in Abuja, Nigeria, with a series of plenary sessions, providing a series of reasons for…

 

Johannesburg announced as host city of ID4Africa 2019

ID4Africa Executive Chairman Dr. Joseph Atick told a standing-room only crowd at Abuja International Conference Centre that Johannesburg, South Africa…

 

ID4Africa survey shows near universal support for biometrics elections among African identity community

Every year ID4Africa conducts an extensive survey of professionals at African identity authorities about topics such as their priorities and…

 

Dialogue focuses on concrete results during ID4Africa Day 2

The second day of the annual conference of the ID4Africa movement featured passionate addresses on a wide variety of topics…

 

Identity for digital health services in the spotlight at ID4Africa 2018

A special three-session symposium on “eHealth” or “DigiHealth” was among the highlights of the second day of ID4Africa 2018, with…

 

ID4Africa 2018 begins with optimism over continental progress toward universal legal identity

The first day of ID4Africa 2018 drew to a successful close late in the day in Abuja, Nigeria, with hundreds…

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