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NEC Asia Pacific Pte Ltd Biometrics News

NEC, Ava Labs building on-chain verification layer for AI agents, stablecoins

Jul 13, 2026, 5:21 pm EDT

NEC has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with blockchain firm Ava Labs, to “promote the consideration of next-generation on-chain…

Jun 19, 2026	Western Australia police launch trial of NEC’s live facial recognition Police in Western Australia are launching a trial of live facial recognition technology in public spaces. A post on the…
May 26, 2026	New Zealand prepares biometric age credential for Govt.nz digital wallet New Zealand’s Digital Kiwi Access Card, with biometrics provided by NEC, will be available within months, bringing a new option…
May 18, 2026	Biometric travel infrastructure scales from London to Dubai Governments and airports worldwide are expanding biometric passenger processing, digital travel authorization and reusable identity systems as rising air traffic…
May 13, 2026	Met Police tout arrests, crime drop from permanent LFR camera pilot The London police have published the results of the UK’s first permanent live facial recognition (LFR) test: During the six-month…
Mar 27, 2026	NEC continues cooperation with WIN on biometric matching for law enforcement NEC has announced a deal to provide the latest version of its integrated biometric workstation to a consortium of U.S….
Feb 27, 2026	London testing facial recognition app for police as another false match surfaces London police will soon start testing “operator-initiated facial recognition” (OIFR), a mobile app that allows officers to photograph a person…
Feb 12, 2026	UK police begins live facial recognition trials at railway stations The UK police have kicked off a six-month pilot using live facial recognition (LFR) surveillance to monitor train stations. The…
Feb 2, 2026	ICE’s facial recognition app is new, but the NEC tech behind it is well known The revelation that the Mobile Fortify app used by ICE to identify suspected immigration procedure violators, and increasingly protestors, uses…
Feb 2, 2026	ICE, FBI expand facial recognition use to protest investigations Federal use of facial recognition and related surveillance technologies has expanded decisively into the monitoring of domestic protest activity, according…
Jan 29, 2026	ICE facial recognition app Mobile Fortify powered by NEC When the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released its 2025 AI Use Case Inventory Wednesday, it included the first official…
Jan 21, 2026	NEC gains accreditation for four digital identity products under NZ trust framework NEC New Zealand is the first digital identity provider to be accredited under the government’s Digital Identity Services Trust Framework…
Jan 12, 2026	No false alerts in UK POC of live facial recognition for immigration enforcement A single arrest was made following a live facial recognition match at a UK port during a November proof-of-concept trial,…
Jan 6, 2026	NEC launches fused face and iris biometrics system for on-the-move authentication A new multimodal technology from NEC can identify people in motion with face and iris biometrics. The technology authenticates people…
Dec 22, 2025	Dubai launches city-wide biometric hotel check-in Dubai is ready to overhaul its hotel arrival experience across the entire emirate with a one‑time contactless check‑in system. This…
Dec 4, 2025	NEC takes a stake in PopID, Tencent and Wink biometrics integrated with POS terminals Major technology firms and payment providers are racing to replace cards and phones with face, palm and voice biometrics. Payments…
Nov 16, 2025	Live facial recognition vans spread across seven additional UK cities UK police authorities are expanding their live facial recognition (LFR) surveillance program, which uses cameras on top of vans to…
Nov 7, 2025	Indicio joins NEC accelerator program with new investment Decentralized identity company Indicio has received investment from NEC Corporation’s venture studio NEC X, which will support its participation in…
Nov 6, 2025	New Zealand taps NEC to develop mobile proof of age credential NEC has announced a partnership with Hospitality New Zealand that will see it digitize the Kiwi Access Card, a proof…
Nov 5, 2025	NEC looks to expand face payments program with Stripe terminal integration Paper’s done, plastic’s over; it’s face time. In Japan, Stripe and NEC Corporation are partnering to enable in-store face payments…