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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.

 

Monaco taps Jumio to verify new cryptocurrency wallet customers

Jumio has been selected as a partner by payments and cryptocurrency platform Monaco to provide customer onboarding, “Know Your Customer”…

 

OneLogin launches unified access management IDaaS for on-premise and cloud applications

Unified access management company OneLogin has announced the launch of Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) product OneLogin Access, which allows companies to access…

 

Gender equality in speech recognition inherently challenging

Voice recognition technology is less accurate when applied to women than men due in part to the design of speech…

 

UN agencies and civil society groups warn EU against coercive collection of children’s biometrics

A group of UN agencies and civil society organizations have published a joint statement against the use of coercion to…

 

BioCatch pitches combination of FIDO and behavioral biometrics

Integrating behavioral biometrics with FIDO-compliant authentication is the way to prevent fraud in a passwordless environment, according to a blog…

 

DHS Science and Technology Directorate developing algorithms to identify child exploitation victims

The Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has initiated a project to design, develop,…

 

Nokia 9 reported to include in-display fingerprint sensor

The forthcoming Nokia 9 flagship smartphone will include an in-display fingerprint sensor, according to a “trusted source” of Nokiapoweruser. Nokiapoweruser…

 

Deadline for linking Aadhaar with bank accounts and mobile phones extended

India’s Supreme Court has indefinitely extended the deadline for linking Aadhaar numbers with bank accounts and mobile phones, which had…

 

Aviation panelists urge broader biometrics adoption to relieve passenger capacity crunch

Broader adoption of biometric technologies to reduce passenger processing times is necessary to manage a looming capacity crunch facing airlines…

 

Businesses embracing biometric authentication, but transparency issues remain

Nearly 90 percent of businesses will use biometric authentication by 2020, though only 10 percent of IT professionals believe it…

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