Idemia’s automated biometric lanes to open to all foreigners entering Singapore
All foreigner visitors to Singapore will soon be able to enter the country using automated biometric lanes at land, sea…
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Passkeys face growing pains that come with rapid adoption and wide unfamiliarity
The discourse on passkeys has cooled in the first months of 2024, as biometrics and digital ID observers wonder if…
UK business registry says ‘yes, chef’ to hundreds of cloned IDs and restaurants
Take a bunch of celebrity chefs; add biometric technology, bad intentions, a handful of bank accounts, a tablespoon of misspellings…
London, Montreal subways trial surveillance for public nuisance, suicide prevention
Public safety initiatives are going underground, as subway systems in the UK and Canada experiment with computer vision camera systems,…
Corsight exec argues facial recognition can strengthen new UK venue security law
A proposed UK public security law named for the victim of the 2017 terrorist attack on Manchester Arena is set…
Expansive facial recognition surveillance coming to Hong Kong, Bahrain, South Africa
The use of facial recognition technology for law enforcement has proven controversial, but not enough to deter authorities around the…
Soft biometrics experts wanted on teams tabling proposals for IARPA video re-ID system
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), the government’s intelligence research arm, is in the early stages of developing…
AVPA flags AI, distrust in government and big tech as hurdles for age verification
On February 27 at 10am EST, Biometric Update will host a webinar entitled Age Verification: Lessons Learned from the UK,…
Election year starting to show cracks from “nuclear” disruption of deepfakes
The packed election year of 2024 is ramping up and so are political attacks using deepfakes. U.S. President Joe Biden…
No extra hardware required with IDScan.net’s secure verification app for iPhone
Merchants can now use IDScan.net’s VeriScan mobile iOS app to accept mobile IDs in Apple Wallet and other standards-compliant mobile…
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