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Microsoft Biometrics News
Passwordless authentication providers unveil digital ID partnerships and progress
Passwordless authentication based on FIDO specifications, with and without biometrics, appears to be picking up steam. Nok Nok Labs has…
| Jul 14, 2021 | CyberArk Labs tests biometric presentation attacks against Windows HelloCybersecurity research firm CyberArk Labs has revealed data from its latest experiment focusing on a successful spoofing attempt of Windows… |
| Jun 8, 2021 | Trust Stamp raises $4M to further biometric market penetrationTrust Stamp has completed a private offering which saw the AI-powered identity solutions company raise $4 million from new and… |
| May 25, 2021 | Map services firm NextBillion.ai raises funds for “Facial AI and NLP” developmentMicrosoft’s corporate venture fund, M12, has placed $6.25 million in geospatial data startup NextBillion.ai, and its ambitions for enterprise AI,… |
| May 20, 2021 | Nomidio partners with Microsoft to bring biometric sign-in to Azure usersNomidio has announced a new integration of its web-based system with Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), to allow the… |
| May 19, 2021 | Amazon, Microsoft say they’ll do what’s right on biometrics, but suits raise questionsAmazon and Microsoft have been hit separately with biometric data privacy lawsuits that, if proven in court, would strike at… |
| May 12, 2021 | Orbbec partners with Microsoft on 3D cameras with biometric application potentialOrbbec has started a new collaboration with Microsoft to develop 3D cameras based on the Azure Depth Platform, which could… |
| May 11, 2021 | Microsoft looks to bring Nuance biometrics to healthcare in PhilippinesA top official from Microsoft says the tech giant is considering bringing its conversational artificial intelligence (AI) technology to the… |
| May 6, 2021 | Nuance biometrics added to contact center app marketplace to fight fraudNuance Communications has launched its Nuance Gatekeeper biometrics to the Five9 App Marketplace after integrating the cloud solution with the… |
| Apr 29, 2021 | Microsoft and Samsung show work on health biometrics in patent filingsA patent application from Microsoft describing emotion detection by a biometric health monitoring system based on information gathered by wearables,… |
| Apr 23, 2021 | Nuance launches fraud center of excellence for biometrics and AI collaborationNuance Communications is opening a new Fraud Nexus center of excellence in Montreal, Quebec to advance artificial intelligence and voice biometrics… |
| Apr 19, 2021 | Microsoft wins partial dismissal of biometric data privacy suit, Amazon goes 0-for-2A biometric data privacy lawsuit against Microsoft and Amazon can go forward, a federal judge in Seattle has ruled, though… |
| Apr 15, 2021 | Keyless brings privacy-first biometrics to Microsoft, OneLogin, and Auth0 partnershipsKeyless announced that it has secured $9.2 million in funding after entering into partnerships with Microsoft Azure Active Directory B2C,… |
| Apr 12, 2021 | Microsoft buys Nuance for $19.7B, expands voice biometrics footprintMicrosoft is expanding its speech biometrics offerings for businesses and governments with the acquisition of Nuance Communications. Microsoft, which first… |
| Mar 18, 2021 | Biometric training data privacy suit to go ahead, but Microsoft and Amazon win partial dismissalA pair of biometric data privacy suits, filed against Microsoft and Amazon, will go ahead after a federal judge in… |
| Mar 11, 2021 | Microsoft enhances AccountGuard digital ID security and expands partnership with YubicoMicrosoft has upgraded the digital ID protections of its AccountGuard program to offer the service for people involved in politics… |
| Mar 9, 2021 | LG Innotek and Microsoft partner up on 3D sensing smart camera projectLG Innotek and Microsoft have announced a new 3D sensing collaboration to integrate LG Innotek’s Time of Flight (ToF) cameras… |
| Mar 3, 2021 | Biometric digital ID providers partner with Microsoft on decentralized ID, passwordless pilotMicrosoft is launching its decentralized identity credentials for public preview this spring, and partnered up with many leading device-based biometrics… |
| Mar 2, 2021 | Supply and demand sides of biometric payment cards market lining upBiometric payment cards continue to advance towards commercialization, with a series of new announcements. Cardmaker Goldpac announced the introduction of… |
| Feb 22, 2021 | NEC, Microsoft executives to lead SIA’s new biometrics advisory boardThe Security Industry Association (SIA) has named a new chair and vice chair who will head its Identity and Biometric… |
Microsoft Industry Insights
Entra Verified ID introduces DIDs and VCs to the Microsoft ecosystem
Microsoft’s new product, Entra Verified ID, introduces Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs) to the Microsoft ecosystem. DIDs are…
| Microsoft aims to kill the password | |
| Intel drops facial recognition from TV set-top box, and why cable needs to ‘get the net’ |
Brand Focus: Microsoft
Identification-as-a-service provides benefits, says MorphoTrak executive
Cloud computing provides many benefits including ease of use, time savings, security, convenience, versatility, and scalability. For these reasons, cloud…
