Scottish COVID status app non-compliant with privacy rules, government reprimanded
Both the Scottish government and National Health Service (NHS) National Services Scotland have been publicly reprimanded by the UK Information…
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Colombia’s civil status registry to deploy Thales biometric scanners
Thales is planning to provide fingerprint scanners to Colombia’s National Civil Status Registry for better management of biometric enrollments and…
Panasonic deploys contactless biometrics, AR to speed up digital transformation in Japan
Panasonic has unveiled a number of new projects using cutting-edge technologies, including biometrics, to speed up the process of digital…
BIO-key to supply tens of thousands of mobile biometric scanners for NIN enrollment through bank
As financial institutions in Nigeria step up their efforts to enroll citizens in the country’s digital identity system, BIO-key has been…
Paravision tops Western facial recognition providers in NIST FRVT 1:1
San Francisco-based Paravision says its fifth generation facial recognition technology was ranked as the top performing biometric algorithm submitted from the…
WEF pushes data intermediaries for privacy protection; pushing for details would be better
A new think piece promotes the idea of data intermediaries that would operate between individuals and any organization that covets…
InnoValor, Clearview AI SOC 2 cybersecurity certifications boost data privacy assurance
Mobile ID and biometrics orchestrator InnoValor and facial recognition firm Clearview AI have each announced they completed the Service Organization Control…
New Google photo software designed to see more skin tones
Less than a year after Alphabet said it was working on a better way to accurately photograph dark skin, it…
iiDENTIFii joins accelerator program to scale up biometric KYC business
South African firm iiDENTIFii has been chosen for the JSE Enterprise Accelerator Program to enable it to increase its market…
Innovatrics joins ranks of biometrics triple threats in NIST evaluations
Innovatrics is now one of the few biometrics vendors who are participating in benchmarking by the U.S. National Institute of…
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