After seven years working on regulation of face biometrics and other technologies used for surveillance by law enforcement and intelligence…
Features and Interviews
Biometric Update offers exclusive features and executive interviews along with forward-looking, systematic data about the global biometrics market. Interviews provide perspectives from companies in the industry, their partners, analysts and other stakeholders in the ecosystem, individually or as part of in-depth features. Read our exclusive ID4Africa coverage.
Biometric PAD standards in competition against spoof attacks, not each other: Stephanie Schuckers
Presentation attack detection (PAD) technology is increasingly important in biometric systems, and increasingly implemented. The technology seems to remain the…
Fime Product Manager says biometrics testing efficiency improving with AI
As biometric applications multiply across a variety of sectors worldwide, smartphones remain the main medium through which these technologies are…
Selfies for sale: Stolen data for biometric spoofs available on mainstream internet
Some advice about biometrics from a fraudster discovered by Montreal-based cybersecurity firm Flare Systems: “Major cryptocurrency exchanges like Coinbase have…
EU border agency says biometrics interoperability framework includes robust safeguards
eu-LISA is set to play a crucial role in the facilitation of interoperability in Europe, with its management of a…
PayByFace CEO discusses biometric payments, privacy and expansion plans
PayByFace has spent the past year significantly ramping up its biometric payments for in-store purchases, raising the profile of its…
Africa proves tough but fertile ground for BioRugged biometrics
“It will be an interesting 2021. This year for us has been – and we’re really lucky in this –…
Real-time facial recognition and remote biometrics combine in Idemia NSS’ ‘installation of the future’
At the United States Army’s Redstone Arsenal in Hunstville, Alabama, there is a three-mile backup of cars trying to get…
Biometric payment card market outlook buoyed by abrupt turn to contactless in the US
When last Biometric Update spoke to Idex Biometrics CEO Vince Graziani, he was fairly new to the position, and speculation…
Method for facial recognition bias reduction with adversarial network shows promise
A prominent trio of biometrics researchers have proposed a way to remove the difference, or bias, from facial recognition performance…
