Biometric capture for PhilID partially suspended
Authorities of the Philippines Statistics Authority (PSA) have temporarily put on hold the biometric capture of registrants for the national…
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Biometrics revenues up for authID, Nuance in Q3
AuthID.AI doubled its revenues in the second quarter of its fiscal 2021, compared to the same period a year earlier, with…
Affective biometrics: Too new, too inaccurate for police work, says think tank
Most people knowledgeable about face biometrics have at least some misgivings about how it is used. It is safe to…
UK Biometrics Commissioner wades into Foreign Affairs’ ban of Hikvision products
The UK Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner Professor Fraser Sampson has responded to a letter published by Chinese camera manufacturer…
Asia: Despite spiraling online fraud, behavioral biometrics is yet to gain ground
By Frank Tan, Commercial Director, APAC, Callsign In a region of 4.6 billion people and with about half having mobile…
UK researcher says digital ID being used for exclusion in Dominican Republic
A new book entitled ‘Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic’ by Dr. Eve Hayes de Kalaf, a…
Biometrics for verification of pension earners in Nigeria, Zimbabwe
The Lagos State government of Nigeria says it is today beginning an online biometric verification process for 5,984 pensioners under…
Governments extending digital IDs secured with biometrics, from mDLs to payments
Government digital ID programs, particularly mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs) and international travel documents are a common thread found in many…
Researchers develop anti-spoofing techniques for iris biometric recognition
New joint research between Notre Dame’s College of Engineering and Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC-Chile) has explored the potential and…
India trials biometric boarding; new study evaluates facial recognition accuracy for Indian faces
Six Indian airports are trialing facial recognition technology for biometric boarding while Indian researchers have re-run large-scale tests that proved…
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