States converge on mDLs
Many U.S. states are launching and expanding mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs) to eventually be equivalent to their physical counterparts. Eventually,…
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3 biometric access control partnerships expand market reach, deployment options
Fingerprint Cards has implemented biometric cards from Freevolt Technologies for physical access control at its headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden. The…
DPI gets cloud service launch, UN working groups and a definition of ‘public’
Cloud-based on-demand technology provided as a service could address a series of challenges associated with rolling out digital public infrastructure,…
Does facial recognition work if surgery alters a person’s face?
In the wealthy district of Gangnam in Seoul, immortalized in the viral pop hit “Gangnam Style,” there are currently 447…
Biometric face image quality standard draft released along with assessment tool
The Open Source Face Image Quality (OFIQ) assessment software library and the Draft International Standard it is a reference implementation…
Pindrop, Veridas raise biometric defenses against voice fraud
Pindrop has won the Voice Cloning Challenge run by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), along with three smaller organizations….
UK police fully embrace the potential of facial recognition with £55.5M to spend
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak today announced a major new investment in facial recognition technology as part of a wider…
European Parliament votes yes on controversial Asylum and Migration Pact
Today, the European parliament voted to adopt the contentious Asylum and Migration Pact, which includes reforms to the EURODAC biometric…
Hailo integrates Paravision facial recognition software for edge biometric identification
Paravision has partnered with Hailo to incorporate their advanced facial recognition technology into specialized devices, such as the Hailo-8 AI…
Idemia upgrading Nigeria’s national biometric system to handle 250M IDs
Nigeria’s National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) is upgrading the country’s biometric identification system to handle the records of up to…
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