Idemia renews biometric identification contract with Australian NSW police
Law enforcement in Australia’s New South Wales has renewed its biometric identification contract with Idemia for six years, according to…
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South Korea advances digital ID, electronic certificate adoption for domestic air travel and more
Starting March 20, South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport is allowing citizens to use digital identity to board…
UNHCR hiring officer for registration and identity management to support biometric system
UN refugee agency UNHCR is seeking a new Associate Registration and Identity Management Officer (ARIMO) to support the biometric PRIMES…
Acuant closes IdentityMind acquisition and combines platforms for full digital ID lifecycle management
Acuant has completed its acquisition of IdentityMind and is combining its Trusted Identity Platform with IdentityMind’s orchestration layer to expand…
Biometrics industry seeing higher demand and adapting technology to help outbreak mitigation
Biometrics is one of the industries singled out as experiencing a surge in demand due to the coronavirus pandemic by…
ImageWare granted new multimodal biometric authentication and enrollment patent
ImageWare Systems was granted a new multimodal biometric authentication and enrollment patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office…
Indonesia biometrics provider PrivyID joins FIDO Alliance and plans working group participation
Indonesian e-signature digital identity technology provider PrivyID has officially joined the FIDO Alliance to take part in global policy and…
AnyVision facial biometrics not powering mass surveillance in West Bank but Microsoft to divest stake
Microsoft is divesting its stake in AnyVision, due to a change in its investment policy and despite an audit finding…
India launches biometric tracking measures as Canada, US delay data collection to prevent virus spread
Governments around the world are responding to the continuing coronavirus outbreak, in some cases by implementing biometric tracking measures, and…
Alibaba explains development of facial biometric access control system for people wearing masks
Alibaba has trained an “eye recognition” algorithm along with a mask detection model to perform biometric identification of people wearing…
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