Australian Tax Office has collected 3.4 million voiceprints as government embraces biometrics
The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has collected voiceprints from 3.4 million Australians, or one in seven citizens, to authenticate their…
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Technavio predicts global 3D facial recognition market to grow 36 percent through 2022
The global market for 3D facial recognition systems will grow at roughly a 36 percent CAGR from 2018 to 2022,…
Indian Justices attempt to clarify legal positions as Aadhaar constitutional challenge continues
Challenges to the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar program in India’s Supreme Court continue to be heard, with Court Justices…
Report warns retailers to consider consumer privacy laws when deploying facial recognition tools
Many vendors of biometrics-based solutions have not anticipated legal and compliance challenges posed by their products, or expressly deny responsibility…
Nuance reports return to organic growth and announces new strategic agreement
Nuance Communications has announced Q1 2018 GAAP revenues of $501.6 million, up 2.9 percent from the same quarter a year…
Researchers develop accurate gender identification technique with keystroke dynamics
New research shows that keystroke dynamics can be used to determine the gender of a person typing with accuracy as…
Horizon Robotics seeks funding to back embedded AI for facial recognition, autonomous vehicles
Horizon Robotics, which provides facial recognition systems for some of Beijing’s busiest subway stations, is betting heavily on embedded AI…
IDEMIA MorphoWAVE integrated with Automatic Systems’ pedestrian control turnstiles
Secure entrance control equipment provider Automatic Systems has announced the integration of IDEMIA MorphoWAVE biometric authentication with its SlimLane security…
Smartphone growth to slow in 2018 as mobile biometrics mostly stay the course, TrendForce predicts
Growth in global smartphone sales will slow to 2.8 percent in 2018, and only Apple and Nokia have a clear…
IFC to support IrisGuard ePayment solution deployment for financial inclusion of Syrian refugees
World Bank Group member IFC and IrisGuard have announced an agreement to expand the reach of iris-based e-payment solutions to…
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