India state runs facial recognition on unsuspecting telco customers to fight fraud
Facial recognition algorithms reportedly have identified 30,000 fake SIM cards this spring in the west coast Indian state of Gujarat….
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Banks seeking frictionless transactions: Multiple biometrics proposed
Batman said, it is not who I am but what I do that defines me; the same is the case…
Hard Yaka leads Universal Ledger’s $10M round for ID-first digital wallet
South Carolina-based Universal Ledger, which has emerged from stealth mode, has closed a $10 million round to launch a digital…
Clearview’s new storage system reduces stress on CPUs for database scalability
Clearview AI has introduced an update to its NNDB (Nearest Neighbor Database) system for indexing and searching billions of face…
Elenium looks at a little-known tool for funding at $185M valuation
Another rainy-day funding scheme has found a fan in Elenium Automation, a face and palm biometrics supplier focused on the…
Canadian provincial privacy commissioner chides major retailer for biometrics deployment
At least four British Columbia locations of iconic national retailer Canadian Tire failed to show a reasonable purpose for their…
Government of India proposes Aadhaar authentication for businesses
The Government of India has recently released a draft notification proposing “voluntary” use of Aadhaar one-time passcode (OTP) or biometric…
Okta leaders hit with insider-trading class action
A shareholder of cloud-based authenticator Okta has filed a potential class action against the company making a number of accusations…
Liveness detection to take biometric adoption to new heights
By Carla Roncato and Chris Burt There is a compelling reason to believe that in the next few years, the…
Biometrics research community convenes in Switzerland to tackle top technical challenges
Biometrics researchers have an array of ideas for technologies, metrics and architectures to address the most serious threats to biometric…
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