Big Brother Watch takes UK police to court over use of public facial recognition as trials continue
Civil liberties group Big Brother Watch has filed a legal challenge to the use of automatic facial recognition by UK…
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Hitachi, KDDI testing blockchain system for retail payments using finger veins
Hitachi and telecommunications operator KDDI are testing a blockchain-based system to settle retail payments. The trial will look to settle…
B-Secur partners with Analog Devices to bring ECG biometrics to automotive market
Belfast-based biometrics company B-Secur and Analog Devices (ADI) have announced the joint development of an authentication solution to control automobile…
SensibleVision CEO George Brostoff criticizes Microsoft call for facial recognition regulation
The specific modality being used is not the most appropriate criteria for applying government regulation to biometrics, according to a…
Amazon to continue selling facial recognition technology to law enforcement
Amazon will not make any changes to the way it markets and provides facial recognition and other technologies to U.S….
Juniper predicts mobile biometrics will authenticate $2 trillion a year in payments by 2023
Mobile biometrics will be used to authenticate $2 trillion worth of in-store and remote payments annually by 2023, driven by…
Israeli media reports FST Biometrics is shutting down
FST Biometrics is shutting down after 11 years of providing facial recognition and behavioral biometrics, according to reports in a…
Critics charge Scottish Biometrics Commissioner will lack scope, enforcement power
Public interest advocates have criticized the Scottish government’s plans to create a Biometrics Commissioner, saying the position would hold less…
Herta finishes in top 3 at biometric technology rally hosted by Homeland Security and NIST
Herta has placed in the top three facial recognition vendors, with scores among the highest for efficiency, customer satisfaction, and…
Vision-Box immigration control platform expanded at Lima Airport in Peru
The expansion of the Vision-Box Automated Immigration Control Platform for arriving and departing passengers at Lima´s Jorge Chávez International Airport…
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