Worldcoin developer argues against selfie biometrics as effective proof of humanity
Selfie biometrics cannot be relied on to show you are a real person, and government ID documents do not scale….
Facial Recognition
A facial recognition system is a computer application for automatically identifying or verifying a person from a two- or three-dimensional digital image or a frame from a video source. It is typically used in security systems alone or in combination with other factors. Can also be used to perform liveness detection. Find facial recognition solutions here.
Vietnam’s biometric authentication for financial transactions reach 600K a day
Vietnam’s government-owned biometric authentication platform VNPT now processes an average of 600,000 KYC check requests per day, with busiest days…
Facial recognition by UK law enforcement raising concerns for privacy watchdogs
The London Metropolitan police’s use of facial recognition for what it calls “precision policing” based on “bespoke” watchlists has resulted…
Uber Eats settles driver’s biometric ID verification discrimination case
In the UK, Pa Edrissa Manjang, an Uber Eats driver, has received a payout in an out-of-court settlement after UberEats’…
Florida town installs live facial recognition to protect against 3 trespassers
Lakeland, Florida is not known as a particularly violent city. It does not appear on lists of America’s most crime-ridden…
Synthetic data model shows promise for biometric bias mitigation
The limitations of real-world biometric training datasets, including the introduction of bias through unbalanced demographic representation, are well established. Synthetic…
New tool from Attain Insight strips PII from biometrics to enable compliant sharing
Attain Insight, an Ottawa, Canada-based data security and analytics firm that provides services for identity resolution and compliance, has launched…
Cameroon wants €50M to expand facial recognition surveillance project
Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has asked his Minister of Economy, Alamine Ousmane Mey, to source funding to the tune of…
South Korea’s Hancom invests, gets Facephi biometrics APAC distribution deal
An investment agreement between Facephi and South Korea-based software company Hancom gives the latter exclusive licensing rights to Facephi’s biometric…
Face biometrics for identity proofing draws big investment and cautionary notes
Face biometrics for remote identity proofing, and in one case the lack of biometrics, is a common thread in many…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
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- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection