Japan rolling out biometric-based electronic customs declaration system
Japan’s Finance Ministry demonstrated a new electronic customs declaration system using biometric facial recognition technology in a media presentation yesterday…
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AlertEnterprise adds facial biometrics to access control kiosk software
AlertEnterprise has added biometric facial recognition technology to its Visitor Management Kiosk software to deliver frictionless access security to organizations…
UnionCommunity introduces new product line at global partner conference
UnionCommunity, whose brands include Virdi and Nitgen, recently hosted its 9th global partner conference at the Korea International Exhibition Center…
U.S. creating new tech guidance agency to inform Congress as facial recognition regulation looms
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is in the process of setting up a Science and Technology Assessment and Analytics…
IDEMIA biometric tech selected to onboard new Movistar Chile customers
IDEMIA has been selected by Telefónica to be its first ever South American digital identity mobile KYC and digital signature…
Zwipe and TAG Systems partner to launch biometric payment cards
Zwipe and TAG Systems Group have announced a partnership to launch a commercial biometric payment card offering that will include…
Onfido raises $50 million and adds former Salesforce executive to board
Onfido has raised $50 million dollars in a Series C funding round led by SBI Investment and Salesforce Ventures, and…
ID4Africa welcomes two more UN agencies to advisory board
Representatives of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) are joining the Advisory Board of…
Paymark to test facial recognition payments in Spark 5G innovation lab
New Zealand-based electronic funds transfer company Paymark is moving into Spark’s 5G innovation lab to test using biometric facial recognition…
New fraud detection and authentication capabilities added to iovation product line
iovation has released a series of updates to its online fraud prevention and authentication products to increase security for businesses…
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