NGI: A closer look at the FBI’s billion-dollar biometric program
Representing a $1.2 billion investment by the U.S. federal government, the FBI’s massive Next Generation Identification (NGI) program is a…
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.
Canadian academic examines intersection of technology and surveillance
The role of the academic is that of skeptic. As the late Michel Foucault, famed French historian and philosopher noted…
LaserLock: An interview with Neil Alpert, CEO
The need for identity verification is becoming clear in many industries today, and as such an increasing number of companies…
SignWave Unlock: Q&A with Lisa McCauley, Battelle’s GM of Cyber Innovations
Battelle is a huge independent, non-profit research and development organization focused on with a wide range of offerings for large government…
Precise Biometrics: Q&A with Jeff Scott, VP of Sales, North America
Precise Biometrics is a growing force in the biometrics industry today, and over the last year, it’s announced a few…
Sensory, Inc: An interview with Bernie Brafman, VP of Business Development
Sensory focuses on embedded solutions and has been working with speech recognition and speaker identification for over 20 years. I had…
Intensity Analytics: A conversation with co-founder John Rome
Co-founded by husband and wife team, John and Bethann Rome, Intensity Analytics is fresh off a seed round of funding and…
Voice biometrics and how far we’ve come
When I first sat down to write about voice biometrics, I couldn’t shake the images of old TV commercials for…
bioLock: an Interview with Thomas Neudenberger, COO of Realtime North America
Leading the charge against fraud prevention inside SAP, Realtime North America’s bioLock system is the only biometric identity and access management…
Toronto-based startup has its finger on the pulse of identification
Tucked away on the second floor of an old University of Toronto building is a small group of innovators with…
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