New chairman appointed to lead Idemia through sale
Biometrics and digital ID giant Idemia has named board member Erik Maris chairman of the company’s supervisory board. Maris joins…
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New social media regulations in Utah try to push children’s use off
In a bold social experiment that could result in a gubernatorial recall, the U.S. state of Utah has made accessing…
Nordsec, PayPal move forward with passkey and passwordless authentication products
Vendors, in this case Nordsec and PayPal, continue to throw rocks in the form of new software at the scourge…
Web3 market may be slowing but stakeholder collaborations on ID are not
Web3 might have lost momentum as some suggest, but there still is investment, policy and development energy behind what most…
Biometric IP stolen on the way to patent protection, developer alleges
A biometrics coder is alleging sophisticated wrongdoing reportedly involving his software and the lawyer he hired to shepherd a facial…
Voice biometrics seen by some, at least, as strategic
Today’s biometrics opportunity/concern is voice. Vendors and buyers of ID management products are moving aggressively into voice recognition, yet at…
Market difficulties take Tascent
(Tascent multi-modal biometrics scanners in use at Woodlands Checkpoint in Singapore last July.) Multimodal biometric identification company Tascent has folded….
NSA and CISA publish identity and access management best practices for US
Two powerful security agencies of the U.S. government have published best ID and access management practices recommended for system administrators….
Studies show US police facial recognition use is advancing without thinking through harms
Two new studies on facial recognition and policing in the southern seaboard of the U.S. do little to increase the…
Indications that China has made big strides in chip muscle, price for facial recognition
A Chinese maker of measurement systems designed for three-dimensional facial recognition is reporting that its chips can outperform other chips…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
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