Can biometric wearables capitalize on worries over machine vision for COVID-19 detection?
Just as concerns and skepticism grow about systems using facial recognition as a tool to help spot fevers in a…
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UNECA expert highlights importance of digital ID for Africa’s post COVID-19 economy
The Lead Advisor for the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA’s) Digital Centre of Excellence, Tunde Fafunwa, has explained…
Fitness-tracker biometrics predict COVID-19 better than temps
Temperature checks, increasingly disparaged as COVID theater, can be outperformed as an illness indicator by fitness-tracker biometrics and self-reported symptoms,…
South Australia considering facial recognition for COVID-19 compliance checks
Police forces in South Australia are considering replacing officers’ compliance checks at homes with an app using face biometrics and…
Growth in biometric cards in banking and retail spurred by COVID-19
Contactless biometric applications are on the rise due to the pandemic effect, Idex Biometrics reports in a blog post. Writing…
Aware reports strong positioning in government biometrics market, financial fallout from COVID-19
Aware earned $2.5 million in revenue in the third quarter of its fiscal 2020, up sequentially on higher biometric software…
Biometric privacy suit targets Amazon’s COVID-19 screening
Employee COVID-19 screening measures by Amazon use biometrics without satisfying the legal requirements of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA),…
Study tests if smartwatch biometrics could spot early COVID-19 clues
Fans of siccing biometrics on COVID-19 have another possible solution. Purdue University is studying the possibility that an AI-enabled smartwatch…
Contactless biometrics and temperature screening launched and deployed to prevent COVID-19 spread
Clear and Digital Ally have signed up new customers for their technologies developed to stem the spread of COVID-19, among…
COVID-19: Enhanced Safety & Security
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