Defense contractor settles cost-padding civil suit for half-million dollars
Integral Consulting Services (ICS) has agreed to pay over $500,000 in damages to the United States over allegations that it…
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India to link Aadhaar with driver’s licenses
India’s federal government has told the Supreme Court that it will link Aadhaar numbers with driver’s licenses in order to…
PSCU blocks $1 million in fraud in one month using Pindrop technology
Credit union service organization PCSU announced that it is extending Pindrop’s call center authentication technology to all of its owner…
Biometrics Institute working with UNCTED on biometrics and counter-terrorism project
The United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (UNCTED) and the Biometrics Institute will launch a Compendium of good practices and…
Contactless biometric payment cards have reached the turning point: Fingerprint Cards
2018 is the year of on-card biometrics, due to advances in biometric performance and low power consumption, the proliferation of…
CBP to test facial recognition on passengers in moving vehicles
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency will run a pilot program as early as this summer to use…
Legislation proposes new national facial recognition services for Australia
Australia’s Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Peter Dutton has introduced legislation to create a national facial recognition system available…
UK Home Office biometrics strategy now slated for June publication
UK Home Office minister Susan Williams says the department’s long-awaited biometrics strategy will be published in June, the Register reports….
Entrust Datacard selected to secure educational cloud service
Educational software provider Vipsnet has chosen Entrust Datacard’s IntelliTrust authentication service to secure access to its cloud-based offering for teachers,…
U.S. SOCOM seeking long-distance facial recognition among next-generation technologies
U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is soliciting ideas from industry, academic, and government researchers for innovative intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance…
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