PSA opens PhilSys’ biometric registration process to the public
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) opened the second, biometrics-focused part of the registration process for the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys)…
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German police face biometrics use increasing rapidly, report shows
A document from the German parliament contains figures from the country’s federal ministry of the interior which indicate that the…
Herta launches face biometrics-based emotion recognition solution
Herta Security has launched a new video analysis solution, BioObserver, to provide a platform for automatic micro-expression detection based on…
Rank One unveils real-time face biometrics video analytics solution
Rank One Computing has released a new facial recognition plugin for Milestone’s XProtect Video Management System (VMS) to provide instant…
Biometrics segment largest in AIDC market projected at over $100B by 2025
Biometrics made up the largest share of the global market for automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) technologies in 2020,…
Fujitsu develops model for higher accuracy in complex behavior recognition
Fujitsu has developed a deep learning technology for analyzing how adjacent joints in the body move during complex movements or…
Kuala Lumpur airport integrates over 100 biometric kiosks, gates and counters and mobile app
One airport is beginning to replace ID document-checking processes with face biometrics, while on the other side of the world…
YooniK places among facial recognition accuracy leaders from Western nations in December NIST test
Face biometrics startup YooniK scored accuracy results in the mid-December edition of NIST’s Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) that the company says…
Walmart reaches $10M settlement in biometric privacy suit brought by employees
U.S. mega-retail chain Walmart is set to pay $10 million to as many as 21,677 current and former Illinois store…
Data protection in Nigeria – enforcement in post COVID-19 digital economy
Guest post by Yemi Adeniran, Managing Partner at Digiterhub Data protection is the process of safeguarding information from threats, destruction,…
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