Australia opens bids to provide Govpass identity verification solution
Australia’s Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) has published a request for tender (RFT) to acquire a “liveness capture” digital credentialing and…
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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.
U.S. law enforcement reportedly using fingerprints of deceased victims and suspects to access iPhones
U.S. law enforcement agencies have accessed iPhones owned by deceased victims and criminal suspects through Touch ID, sources revealed to…
Conflicting reports: fingerprint vs. facial recognition for Android smartphones
Android smartphone manufacturers are rushing to integrate under-display fingerprint sensors in their devices and avoiding 3D facial recognition, or are…
NTT DATA to offer Nok Nok Labs authentication platform with new partnership
Nok Nok Labs has announced that NTT DATA will offer its FIDO-certified Nok Nok S3 Authentication Suite under the terms…
Samsung to include under-display fingerprint sensor in Galaxy Note 9
The forthcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 9 smartphone is likely to include an under-display fingerprint sensor, after Samsung Display prepared three…
Uganda biometric refugee registration program faces scale and funding hurdles
Uganda’s biometric registration program for refugees in the country has verified the identity of 11,684 out of an estimated 1.4…
IDEX biometric smartcard approaching certification and commercial bidding
IDEX delivered a presentation at the DNB Small and Medium Enterprise Conference in Oslo, Norway on Wednesday, laying out its…
ID R&D selected for final round of Microsoft Global Startup competition
ID R&D has been selected by Microsoft Ventures for the final round of the Innovate AI competition, as one of…
Survey shows almost everyone in Singapore wants biometric banking
A new survey from Visa reveals that 97 percent of consumers in Singapore are interested in using biometrics, and 96…
Vivo taps Synaptics again for smartphone under-display fingerprint sensor
Chinese smartphone manufacturer Vivo is following up its X20 Plus UD device, which featured an optical under-display fingerprint sensor from…
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