Contactless biometrics from Tech5 integrated with ZA police, state enterprise platforms
Law enforcement and public enterprise software-maker Barizma has integrated contactless fingerprint and face biometrics from Tech5 with a pair of…
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CAT2 request goes out for facial recognition at US airports
The U.S. government is advertising for a vendor that can add face biometrics to its existing ability to validate document-credentialing…
What private data? New camera only sees what it’s told to look for
Researchers say they have devised a camera that can take pictures of target objects and nothing else in the frame….
Datatang adds 5,000 Traditional Chinese characters to OCR system
Beijing-based artificial intelligence (AI) company Datatang has updated its optical character recognition (OCR) database to include 5,000 handwritten characters in…
Dignari selected to provide digital identity and access management services to US gov for $29M
Security firm Dignari will provide the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) with identity,…
Nigeria’s INEC sued to allow biometric authentication of voters without voter cards
Nigerian businessman Dr. Ezeh Emmanuel Ezeh is asking a federal high court in Abuja to declare that the Independent National…
Successfully implementing a digital identity framework
By David Mahdi, CSO and CISO Advisor, Sectigo As an increasing amount of personal and critical business information is available…
American researchers probe where biometric bias comes in and how to measure it
A pair of papers on why biometric systems are so often found to be less effective with some demographic groups…
UK’s mobile biometric equipment tender falls through, renewed by gov
A UK government contract for mobile biometric equipment (MBE) worth £450,000 (roughly $527,000) was not awarded as no compliant kit…
Berbix, restaurant chains and Microsoft can’t free themselves from BIPA cases
Another month, another batch of new BIPA lawsuits and court developments for the biometrics and privacy communities to pore over….
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