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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.

 

Researchers develop Captcha-based anti-spoofing technique to supplement biometric authentication methods

Cybersecurity researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a “Real-Time Captcha” anti-spoofing technique for facial recognition authentication, ScienceDaily…

 

BIO-key reports major gains in preliminary Q4 and full year 2017 results

BIO-key has announced a 110 percent increase in full-year revenue and a 36 percent gain in gross profits from 2016…

 

Credence ID launches new mobile device and announces major deployments

Credence ID has announced the launch of CredenceTWO compact handheld device, which the company says is the first to combine…

 

UK financial institutions lag global counterparts in adopting authentication technology

More than four out of five UK financial institutions (84 percent) are concerned about their ability to correctly identify customers,…

 

Rostelecom voice and facial recognition system reaches beta launch

Rostelecom has announced the launch of the beta version of its Unified Biometrics System (UBS) in partnership with three Russian…

 

EFF calls for independent oversight and privacy protection in facial recognition report

U.S. law enforcement agencies are implementing facial recognition with little in the way of oversight or privacy protections, which could…

 

Court blocks Israeli police request to access biometric database

Israeli police have been blocked by a District Court ruling from a national biometric database, which they had planned to…

 

UIDAI stops Aadhaar enrollment service by private rural partners

The Unique Identity Authority of India (UIDAI) has declined to renew its memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the country’s network…

 

NVIDIA and AnyVision partner for facial recognition solution for smart cities

Facial recognition platform provider AnyVision has joined NVIDIA’s Metropolis Software Partner Program to provide AI and deep learning-powered automatic facial…

 

House subcommittee considers impact of facial recognition bias on government adoption of AI technologies

The challenge of racial bias in facial recognition systems is being examined in hearings by the Subcommittee on Information Technology…

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