What a tangled web we weave when we first practice to deceive; moreso when we first file biometric information privacy…
Articles By Jim Nash
Jim Nash is a business journalist. His byline has appeared in The New York Times, Investors Business Daily, Robotics Business Review and other publications. You can find Jim on LinkedIn.
Digital ID and wallets projects broaden their impacts
Digital identification and related software are growing slowly in specific situations – the development of U.S. state driver’s licenses is…
Times are getting tight for Amazon’s Alexa and Echo voice biometrics lines
Will voice recognition become an afterthought at Amazon? Business Insider has published a lengthy piece outlining how Amazon is cutting…
AI might help you give face scrapers the deformed finger
Born as weird abstraction, AI imagery is finding its way to consumer usefulness. Two algorithms demonstrate that while AI is…
US biometric surveillance database reaches 10,000 data points
A privacy advocate’s database counting the United States government bodies that surveil citizens’ biometric identifiers reportedly now has 9,850 data…
Outsources may take more of biometric security costs and complexity
A large majority of U.S.-based IT executives at smaller firms are increasingly working with biometrics, according to a vendor-funded survey,…
A big name enters the battle against deepfake threat
Intel says its new product, FakeCatcher, detects 96 percent of deepfakes. Executives say theirs is the first detector that works…
ID.me’s travails are a problem for the biometrics industry
ID.me’s repeated self-congratulations about the intercepting billions in attempted fraud against U.S. state and federal governments do not appear to…
Seed and angel funders invest in Mexican face biometrics anti-fraud vendor
A Mexican biometric fraud prevention startup says it has closed a seed round of funding valued at $4.1 million. The…
Liking private placements more than other debt, Idex Biometrics sells 150M shares
Executives at biometrics and authentication vendor Idex has signed a two-tranche private placement raising a total $15 million by selling…
