Contactless retail biometrics expanded and contact center voice authentication launched by Amazon
Customers will soon be able to check into all Seattle Amazon Go stores using only their palm scan. Amazon is…
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New digital ID entrants and growth opportunities appear on OWI’s 2021 Identity Landscape
The digital ID ecosystem has been undergoing rapid change over the past year, which has brought new players into the…
Hikvision to deploy 1,900 cameras with face biometrics for $33M smart city contract
Hikvision has won a contract worth an estimated $33 million to install roughly 1,900 cameras with face biometrics as part…
ImageWare rebrands and upgrades flagship multi-biometric access control solution
ImageWare is re-releasing its flagship multimodal biometric authentication solution with updates to enable seamless integration of multifactor authentication (MFA) into existing…
Guide for ethical, legal use of facial recognition published by BSIA
A 16-page document detailing parameters for the ethical and legal use of automated facial recognition (AFR) by companies has been…
New biometrics sales leaders appointed by Princeton Identity and Jumio
Princeton Identity has expanded its executive team with the appointment of Luis E. Tapia as its new Director of Business Development…
The internet’s small-mindedness makes AI brutish as well
If bias cannot be wrung from the process of training biometrics and other AI algorithms, maybe unsupervised algorithms can learn…
Nigeria’s move to link digital identity numbers to SIM cards sparks lawsuit
The controversy surrounding the decision by Nigeria’s federal government to have citizens link their biometrics-backed digital IDs to their SIM…
Mitek hedges against biometrics investment market disruption with $125M private offering
Mitek is planning to raise at least $125 million through a private offering of Convertible Senior Notes to qualified institutional investors…
Clearview AI files to re-argue remand in biometric data privacy case to avoid state court
A motion filed by Clearview AI with the Seventh Circuit requests the court rehear its argument against the previously-rendered decision to…
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