NEC revealed as provider of biometric facial recognition services for Australian Federal Police
The biometric analysis platform used by Australian Federal Police (AFP) is NEC’s NeoFace, a report from ZDNet has revealed. An…
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JCB launches biometric fingerprint device with FPC sensor for payment authentication
JCB has partnered with Sony Imaging to offer a fingerprint scanner to support biometric authentication for the QUICPay digital payment…
Facebook to appeal to Supreme Court for biometric privacy suit dismissal
Facebook will appeal to the Supreme Court in its Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) suit, seeking to have the potential…
TigerIT and Renesas develop biometric privacy solution for Aadhaar
Bangladesh-based IT company TigerIT and Renesas Semiconductors have developed a solution consisting of both hardware and software it says can…
Onfido releases Global Fraud Index and Socure commits to eliminate digital identity fraud ahead of Money 20/20
Roughly 1 percent of $5 trillion a year in global fraud is recovered by authorities, according to Onfido’s inaugural Global…
BIO-key CEO says FBI guidance sets up a wave of enterprise biometric MFA adoption
The Federal Bureau of Investigations’ recently announced guidance for U.S. businesses that multi-factor authentication (MFA) requires physical or behavioral biometrics…
Researcher discusses facts related to media narratives about facial recognition ‘bias’
“Biometric performance is nuanced and cannot be reduced to generalizations like ‘bias’,” reads a LinkedIn article by Yevgeniy Sirotin, PhD,…
FaceTec launches first biometric bounty program for liveness detection spoofing
FaceTec has launched a liveness detection spoof bounty program with a total of $30,000 possible payouts, the company announced. Ethical…
UNICEF releases guidelines for use of biometric technology on children
UNICEF has released two documents outlining guidelines for the secure, efficient, and transparent use of children’s biometrics. While biometric technology…
Netherlands stands up Biometrics Standards Committee as UK adds new ethics group members
A pair of European government bodies have boosted their biometrics governance initiatives; one for international engagement, and one for national…
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