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Legal challenge raised over UK police use of automated facial recognition

A Cardiff, Wales resident has introduced the first legal challenge to a UK police force’s use of automated facial recognition…

 

Rank One releases updated version of face recognition SDK

Rank One announced the release of version 1.16 of the ROC SDK, which includes significant feature enhancements to the face…

 

Govt grant helps Argus TrueID develop biometric platform

Ken Farrow, Executive Chairman of Argus TrueID recently hosted the Australian Federal Minister for Jobs and Innovation to demonstrate how…

 

Identity industry lessons from the 2018 ID4Africa survey

Every year ID4Africa conducts an extensive survey of professionals at African identity authorities about topics such as priorities and challenges,…

 

International Biometrics and Identity Association adds six new members

The International Biometrics + Identity Association (IBIA) announced the addition of six new members this week. The new members include:…

 

Australian government cancels NEC biometrics services contract

Australia’s Federal Government has terminated a contract for Biometric Identification Services (BIS) with NEC Australia due to project delays, ARN…

 

Alibaba and TAS partner to bring facial and voice recognition to Australian financial sector

Alibaba Cloud and Australian technology provider TAS have formed a partnership to bring Alibaba’s facial recognition, artificial intelligence, and data…

 

Apple patent application describes gaze tracking system with facial recognition

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published a patent application by Apple for a gaze tracking system which could…

 

Fingerprint Cards sensors featured in four new smartphones

Fingerprint Cards announced that four new smartphones featuring technology by the Swedish biometrics company have been launched in the past…

 

iQIYI launches multimodal biometric celebrity recognition competition

Chinese online entertainment service iQIYI is accepting applications for AI programming competition “Celebrity Video Identification Challenge.” Hundreds of teams from…

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