Surprisingly low-tech attacks on high-tech biometrics systems
Not all biometric fraud is a complex coding job taken on by international cybercriminals. Sometimes it is someone nearby staring…
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Irish biometric public services access card not to be mandatory
The Irish government has backed down from a legal challenge against the country’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) on usage of…
Could biometrics bridge the financial exclusion gap?
Exploring the scale of financial exclusion and the intrinsic issue of digital identities, Simon Binns, Chief Operating Officer at FinGo,…
India’s cabinet okays proposal to have Aadhaar biometrics linked with voter IDs
A proposed bill seeking to reform certain provisions of India’s electoral law, dubbed the Representation of the People Act, is…
Large-scale face biometrics deployments, ID document plan details revealed
A series of large biometrics projects, deployments and investments were unveiled in the most-read stories on Biometric Update this week,…
Record year for biometrics checks by iProov and Veriff
The UK’s biometric face authentication firm iProov has recorded another record year of growth in 2021 as global demand for…
NEC streamlines 1:N biometric matches for homomorphic encryption to protect data
Homomorphic encryption for biometric matching holds the promise of data protection even in use, and NEC Corporation is the latest technology…
Know your dataset and be creative: biometric PAD tips offered in EAB talk
Spoofs and presentation attacks are a threat to any biometric modality, but there are some common approaches to developing algorithms…
Biometrics investment surge continues with FPC’s $33M bond issue, planned TeleSign IPO
Fingerprint Cards has raised SEK 300 million (US$33.2 million) in a senior secure bond issue to invest in working capital and…
€2.8M funding for startup Mobai’s biometric data protection project
Enhanced face biometrics, presentation attack detection, face quality assessment and biometric template protection in the Scandinavian banking sector are the…
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