Privately bringing on-device biometrics and age estimation to diverse market sectors
The desire to protect children from inappropriate content and goods is bound up with broader concerns about trust in the…
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.
Oxford Refugee Studies Centre: mapping the biometrics of movement into and around Europe
A new report maps the technologies such as biometrics in use, being developed or trialled across Europe for tackling the…
RevealSecurity user journey analytics put detection capability at application layer
Whether or not behavioral biometrics really “count as biometrics,” the concept is tricky to define. Measurable behavior includes much beyond…
Digital ID for nightclub entry: 1account trial results at odds with Home Office findings
With club entry taking under five seconds and a 90 percent preference for using digital ID over physical, 1account found…
What everyone needs to know about facial recognition
The National Press Foundation recently held an event to help inform the news media about facial recognition. How fully it…
Success of age estimation, digital ID trials in UK lead to pressure for changes to the law
The influential British Retail Consortium (BRC) is calling for a change to the law to allow the use of age…
CAF revenues up 250 percent in 2022, firm plans international expansion: CEO
Darryl Green joined Brazilian facial identification and recognition firm CAF as its CEO in July 2022. At the time, the…
International biometrics standards development focus turns to PAD
Several new publications and events in 2022 advanced the gradually building body of international standards for biometrics. As that standardization…
Passwordless authentication to improve security, user experience in 2023: SecureAuth CEO
Paul Trulove became SecureAuth’s CEO almost a year ago. Over the course of 2022, the company achieved several milestones in…
South Korea’s digital identity blockchain prepares to add new credentials, go international
South Korea’s blockchain-based national mobile digital identity system is not due to be fully operational until 2024, but it is…
