€4.8M fund for workable digital credential interoperability
Equity-free funding is being offered for ideas that improve digital credential interoperability between the European Union, Canada and the United…
Biometric R&D
Biometric R&D refers to significant research and development in the biometrics sphere, from academia to applications. This includes market research, product development, awards recognition as well as new inventions and innovations.
Ant Group applies for palm biometrics patent for retail purchases
A fintech holding of Alibaba has filed a software patent application in China protecting palm biometrics for retail purchases. Ant…
Biofire will avoid triggering regulation as biometric ‘Smart Gun’ reaches pre-orders
Executives with Biofire say their company’s Smart Gun is the first with biometric capabilities to reach the consumer market anywhere…
Keyless now ISO/IEC 27001 compliant, HID gets SOC 2 Type 2 certification
Biometric authentication firm Keyless Technologies has recently achieved the ISO/IEC 27001 certification, a global standard for information security management. The…
US facial recognition developers jockey for position in NIST accuracy testing
U.S. developers do not appear among the first seven algorithms of the leaderboard for the Face Recognition Vendor Test for…
VC, Alphabet fund development of AML products
Internal and external investment in digital identity-based, crime-curbing AI continues. Venture fund Notion Capital has put $11 million into fintech…
Researchers defeat voice biometric security by targeting common liveness approaches
Shortcomings in voice presentation attack detection are making it surprisingly easy to defeat biometric defenses. A pair of Canadian computer…
Regula updates ID document scanning to detect image forgeries, snuff out ‘ghost’ images
KYC provider Regula has announced newly updated software it claims will improve organizations’ ability to detect forged images within ID…
How Clearview developed its method for fast search on an above-billion scale database
Databases used in facial recognition are growing to previously-unseen scale, which for Clearview AI created a need to develop a…
NIST launches public working group on generative AI
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology is launching a public working group on generative AI, according to Secretary…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection