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Biometrics stocks wrap: Ping Identity, Goodix, Ipsidy, Idex

Several publicly traded companies in the biometrics and digital ID space have closed 2019 with announcements. Ping Identity has announced…

 

CES 2020 demos to show consumer biometrics growth and new applications

Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2020 seems likely to feature more biometric technologies and applications than ever before, as the cutting-edge…

 

AboutTime releases facial recognition sign-in to track mobile employees

AboutTime Technologies has added facial recognition to mobile workforce management tool WorkMax TIME for accurate and automated employee time tracking,…

 

AMBIS biometric identification ready for deployment in India in 2020

AMBIS (Automated Multi-Modal Biometric Identification System) is now ready for full deployment across Maharashtra, India in 2020, following a series…

 

French Secretary of State for Digital hesitant about national digital ID program

The French Interior Ministry announced in October plans to deploy facial recognition for enrollment into its national digital identification program…

 

Google advances speech recognition technology for people with Down syndrome

The Canadian Down Syndrome Society (CDSS) has partnered with Google’s Project Euphonia to train Google’s technology to make it more…

 

Belgian Data Protection Authority includes biometric security in strategic plan

Fearing online privacy is at risk, the Data Protection Authority in Belgium wants to bring cultural change and turn privacy…

 

Digital ID and biometrics in Africa: SIM blocks, biometric electoral roll disputes and an eKYC first for Libya

As 2019 draws to a close, Tanzania reaches – and pushes back – its December 31 biometric SIM registration after…

 

Biometric privacy lawsuits make “judicial hellholes” and Facebook Supreme Court hearing top concern

The Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) of Illinois continues to make waves, with several cases winding their way through the…

 

Facial recognition use planned by police and border security as NIST report sparks concern

Australia’s Home Affairs Department says it needs to increase its use of facial biometrics with data from allied nations and…

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