Scottish local authority switches off facial recognition citing legal, ethical concerns
A Scottish local authority, Falkirk Council, has recently spent over £1 million (U.S.$1.4 million) on upgrading 76 state-of-the-art CCTV cameras…
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SenseTime seeks to break Chinese biometrics giants’ IPO stalemate with $2 billion offering
Chinese face biometrics giant SenseTime has filed to go public in Hong Kong, South China Morning Post reports. The company…
Voting open for digital identity excellence with #GoodID, MIT Solve 2021 awards
Voting has begun for the #GoodID awards across four digital identity-related categories and for finalists in MIT Solve awards. #GoodID,…
Papua New Guinea advised against using biometrics in next year’s election
Terence Wood, a Research Fellow at the Development Policy Center — an Australia-based aid and development policy think tank —…
The varied applications of contactless biometrics, remote authentication on full display
U.S. federal government spending was a theme common to many of the top stories of the week on Biometric Update,…
IBIA breaks down biometrics misconceptions with NIST analysis
The International Biometrics + Identity Association (IBIA) has addressed persistent myths about facial recognition, analyzing and presenting in clear language…
Urgent call to erase biometric, digital ID databases in Afghanistan
Biometric and digital identity projects created to foster inclusion and security in Afghanistan may now lead to the very opposite,…
Facebook joins ID2020, fined $5.5M for facial recognition violations by South Korea
Facebook is the latest company to join ID2020 to contribute to its efforts pioneering user-managed, privacy-protecting digital ID. According to a…
Kantara lays out trust-building recommendations for mDLs
A global digital ID association has published steps vendors and others need to take in order to build effective mobile…
First deployment of pressure-based gait biometrics for access control unveiled by Stepscan
Stepscan Technologies has announced the deployment of a new pressure-based gait biometric access control system. Dubbed Stepscan Secure, the solution…
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