Calls for biometric authentication of rideshare passengers as drivers face increasing assaults
Increasing instances of crime against drivers of two of the world’s biggest ridesharing companies, Uber and Lyft, have triggered a…
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Digital public goods and infrastructure can’t be stamped out on an assembly line
Ambitious plans for using digital public goods and infrastructure for national economic development are resulting in insights for the next…
Paravision reports 70 percent facial recognition accuracy boost in latest NIST report
Paravision has achieved new biometric accuracy levels for facial recognition applications in NIST’s latest Face Recognition Vendor Test report. Specifically,…
Meta patents suggest biometric data capture for personalized advertising
A new series of patents by Facebook’s parent company Meta suggest possible plans from the company to capture users’ behavioral…
Expanded Smart Engines customer base leads to 113M ID document scans in 2021
Smart Engines witnessed significant progress not only in the commercialization and adoption of its products in 2021, but also in…
Time to ditch passwords? How alternative employee authentication can provide better protection
By Raz Rafaeli, CEO of Secret Double Octopus The first recorded use of a password used to access a…
Stage set for next round of secure access control biometrics adoption
Investments, patent activities, pilots and observations on the air travel industry all point to a coming wave of biometrics deployments….
Selfie biometrics implemented for tax credits, loans, could protect an endangered species
Selfie biometrics are being used for identity verification by a wide range of applications, from online government services supported by…
Attacks, countermeasures and pulses of blood in remote identity proofing
The EU has produced a surprisingly readable summary of the status quo and future possibilities for remote identity proofing, from…
Brivas adds architectural alternatives to biometric liveness patent family
Brivas has been granted its seventh patent, with approval for a system providing a biometric liveness check on a local client…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection