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Articles By Joel R. McConvey

Joel McConvey is a creative content producer and digital specialist who helps people and organizations tell their story across platforms, and meet the challenges of a digital culture that changes quickly and often. Reach him on Twitter @jrmcconvey.

 

Regula photospectral document scanner marks ‘conceptual shift’ in border control

As border control becomes an increasingly central political issue in North America and Europe, and border security agencies face staffing…

 

Mexico gets new biometric national identity document

Mexico’s federal government has gotten the political green light to create a new biometric national identity document – although it…

 

Gillette Stadium looks to facial recognition for ticketing, payments, more

Sometime in the 1990s, cinemas underwent a transformation from smaller multiplexes to massive, megaplexes with new features and a theme…

 

Age assurance shouldn’t lead to harvesting of kids’ data: Irish privacy watchdog

Age assurance requirements for pornography sites and platforms hosting extremely violent content will become mandatory in Ireland this July. Media…

 

World puzzled by lack of public trust in massive technology corporations

Sam Altman and Alex Blania, figureheads and evangelists for cryptically related firms World and Tools for Humanity, recently spoke at…

 

Milwaukee police debate trading biometric data for Biometrica facial recognition

Although it has pledged to seek public consultation before signing a contract with a biometrics provider, the Milwaukee Police Department…

 

Biometric Update Podcast looks at the road to a global standard for age assurance

Episode 2 of the Biometric Update Podcast is a dispatch from the 2025 Global Age Assurance Standards Summit, held from…

 

Odds are good for biometrics firms in the global gambling sector

Gambling has always been a vice associated with certain kinds of criminal activity, but the development of the online gambling…

 

Pindrop surpasses $100M in annual recurring revenue, kicks off BU podcast

A release from Atlanta-based voice biometrics firm Pindrop celebrates a milestone: the firm has surpassed US$100 million in Annual Recurring…

 

Anonybit, FPC to provide multimodal biometric authentication for Ping Identity platform

Anonybit and Fingerprint Cards (FPC) have announced an integration with Ping Identity’s no-code identity orchestration service, PingOne DaVinci. A release…

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