‘Narrow opportunity’ to use biometrics for fair COVID global vaccination programming
“An effective vaccination program will falter if we don’t invest in the information infrastructure for vaccine delivery in developed and…
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Calls against use of live facial recognition tech in Britain grow, Parliament petitioned
The use of Live Facial Recognition Technology (LFRT) by police and private companies in parts of the United Kingdom, as…
Samsung smartphones and OpenTable prepare for COVID health passes
Samsung and the Commons Project Foundation are collaborating to make SMART Health Cards available within in Samsun Pay digital wallets…
Tanzanian president invokes need for biometric voting to curb election irregularities
A biometric voting system could already be in place when Tanzanians head to the polls to choose a new president…
UK Post Office moves into digital ID space with biometric app developed by Yoti
10,500 of the 11,500 Post Office branches across the UK now allow people to pick up parcels using the biometric…
‘Siri Speech Study’ app to improve Apple speech recognition
Apple launched a new iOS app this month, ‘Siri Speech Study’, designed to collect speech data and improve the speech…
How the pandemic changed behavioral biometrics in fraud screening
By Rafael Lourenco, Executive Vice President, ClearSale Fraud prevention technology can do some impressive things, like compare customers’ current behavior to…
Ethically developing sets for face biometrics demands a community approach
In the physical world, events flow in one direction. A hiker is bitten by a snake, gets medical attention and…
India’s COVID vaccination management system ‘issued over 110M unique health IDs’
India’s biometrics-backed COVID vaccination management system, CoWIN (COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network) has issued 110,542,794 unique health IDs (UHIDs) as part…
Cognitec contracted by Germany for biometric border checks
Cognitec has won a contract with Germany, for an initial duration of four years, for the supply of biometric devices…
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