Ant Group plans to divest EyeVerify biometrics in 2021, spooked by US restrictions
Digital service provider Ant Group is selling biometric security firm EyeVerify, also known as Zoloz, amid U.S. privacy concerns regarding…
Articles By Katya Pivcevic
Katya Pivcevic wrote for Biometric Update from October, 2020 until November, 2021, while living in the UK.
Leaders appointed by digital identity providers and civil society amid busy market
Companies continue to add executives to respond to growing demand for digital ID technologies with Identiv, ImageWare and Okta making…
India says biometrics-backed CoWIN vaccine app will only track relevant vaccine data
India’s biometrics-backed coronavirus vaccine application, CoWIN (COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network), will comply with the government’s forthcoming Data Protection and Privacy…
Taiwan digital ID delayed until privacy regulation passes
Taiwan’s government has pulled out of a NT$4.8 billion (roughly US$171 million) digital identity (eID) card trial in Hsinchu City,…
Digital ID-based immunity passports roll out amid lack of info, uncertain mandates
Immunity passports and digital health credentials, based on digital ID and frequently secured with biometrics, seem to be becoming an…
Herta launches face biometrics-based emotion recognition solution
Herta Security has launched a new video analysis solution, BioObserver, to provide a platform for automatic micro-expression detection based on…
Walmart reaches $10M settlement in biometric privacy suit brought by employees
U.S. mega-retail chain Walmart is set to pay $10 million to as many as 21,677 current and former Illinois store…
Enacomm partners to deliver voice biometric banking tools to more financial institutions
Workforce solutions provider BLM Technologies will offer its financial institution customers Enacomm’s AI-powered voice biometrics and other tools for financial…
Nepal leverages digital ID registration to launch e-government app to Beta
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MoCIT) of the Nepalese government has launched a national government services app, Nagarik,…
Progress towards unbiased facial recognition seen in EU computer vision challenge
A challenge organized by Human Pose Recovery and Behavior Analysis group as part of the European Conference of Computer Vision…
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