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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.

 

Biometrics adoption, inclusion gains depend on bridging the understanding gap

Education is a lifelong process, and emerging technology applications like biometrics payments are often challenging for older people to understand….

 

NIST updates biometric data exchange format standard

NIST has released an updated standard format for the exchange of machine-readable biometric data by law enforcement, border control and…

 

ROC launches biometric physical access control software as enterprise market heats up

Biometric access control is a growing market on both the demand and supply sides, with ROC the latest entrant into…

 

Age assurance gets boost from $6M judgement against Meta, YouTube

Liability in civil court is looming as a motivator for social media platforms to implement age assurance, after a jury…

 

Ohio advances age verification bill to close loophole used by porn sites

Age verification for access to online pornography is one step closer to enforceable law in Ohio, where House Bill 84…

 

Facial age estimation adoption puts pressure on ecosystem

As an area of technology that is being implemented even as legal mandates are taking force and the criteria for…

 

Unico warns AI-enabled sophisticated fraud attacks could spike 550% in 2026

Most observers of digital fraud would grant the likelihood that sophisticated fraud attacks will increase this year, the question is:…

 

NIST releases latent fingerprint biometrics training data, quality assessment software

New biometric training data and open source fingerprint quality assessment software has been released by NIST to help improve the…

 

RealSense, Unikrew, Pixel confirmed to iBeta biometric PAD Level 2

Three completed evaluations of biometric Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) technology to iBeta’s Level 2 have been completed in March, with…

 

MOSIP community shares practical digital identity deployment lessons at Connect 2026

Digital identities created with the open-source MOSIP platform are being used by a growing number of people across an expanding…

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