FTC vet handicaps the agency’s role in biometric data privacy rulemaking
National data privacy policies are coming to the United States, according to a regulation insider, but do not expect to…
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.
Shrinking commands, ageing voices and microphones everywhere: Pindrop’s future for voice biometrics
“Where we want to be is to more or less reproduce banking as it was done 100 years ago when…
Biometric vaccination cards now available for Cameroonian travellers
The head of the Yaounde international vaccination centre, a structure under the Ministry of Public Health of Cameroon, Dr. Ntsobe…
Socure SVP sees past the migraine of dealing trust to the US government
On October 12, 2021, the top story on the front page of The New York Times was about entrenched distrust…
Ethiopia’s Zemichael on delivery of 70M digital IDs by 2025, lessons drawn from ID4Africa
The Executive Director of Ethiopia’s national ID program, Yodahe Zemichael, says the country is well on course to reach 70…
Maturing MOSIP enjoys ID4Africa limelight as it expands its partnerships and vendors flock
“We’ve been working on MOSIP since 2020. In fact it was in 2019, the first time we heard of it…
iBeta biometrics testing expert explains the path from playdough to vendor credibility
Even within the field of biometrics, where neural networks and modern machine learning techniques have revolutionized established modalities and enabled…
Princeton’s Varma sees progress and recognition in SIA ‘Women in Biometrics’ award
Bobby Varma is quick to acknowledge the world would be a better place if celebrating women executives in an industry…
PayByFace receives strategic investment from SafexPay, CEO discusses plans to go global
After being named as a participant in Mastercard’s Biometric Checkout Program, PayByFace announced a strategic investment from Indian fintech SafexPay…
$15.5M raised by Incognia to focus on mobile location authentication
Incognia, a Silicon Valley-based behavioral biometrics and location authentication provider, has raised a $15.5 million Series A from Point72 Ventures…
