HID Global showcases new Estonian biometric passport with world-first features, personalization
Citizens of Estonia will notice a range of new features as they start receiving the all-new biometric passport when they…
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ForgeRock, Sun Microsystems co-founders launch IndyKite for open-source Web3 identity layer
Two tech leaders have teamed up to launch a startup creating a digital identity layer for people, devices and machines…
Malaysia to roll out biometrics-backed digital ID
Malaysia’s Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin has disclosed that the process to implement a digital identity system in the…
New funding for one facial recognition firm, features for another
Two computer vision startups, one taking venture capital and another crowdsourcing funding for its growth, are leaning on COVID restrictions…
Seoul shares face biometrics of 170M travelers with private firms
The South Korean government shared roughly 170 million face images of citizens and resident foreign nationals with the private sector…
Plurilock expands in India through CloudCodes assets acquisition
Plurilock has recently completed the acquisition of assets from Indian cloud access security broker CloudCodes Software, granting CloudCodes’ existing customers…
More bad news for Mexico’s proposed nationwide biometrics collection scheme
Mexico’s proposed mobile phone registry, which would collect biometric identifiers from all phone-account owners in the nation, this week was…
India tests mobile voting, arranges Aadhaar hackathon – both spell controversy
India is testing biometric, blockchain-based mobile phone voting for the first time in the hope of increasing turnout and reducing…
FPC reports Q3 revenue gains, sees biometric payment cards going mainstream in 2022
Revenues for Fingerprint Cards reached SEK 354.3 million (US$41.2 million) for the third quarter of the company’s fiscal 2021 year, well…
Threatmark raises $3M, appoints new CEO to lead behavioral biometrics growth
Threatmark has closed a $3 million funding round and appointed a new CEO and president to lead the expansion of its…
