Jamaica picks Thales to upgrade voter identification system with biometrics
Thales has been hired to modernize Jamaica’s electronic voter ID system, strengthening voter identification and authentication with fingerprint biometrics, reports…
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Nigeria suspends biometric voter registration June 30, to improve ABIS system
The chairman of Nigeria’s National Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has announced that the biometric Continuous Voter Registration…
Government digital identity projects hit milestones as next-generation approaches weighed
Developments in face biometrics applications, legal wrangling and databases inspired several of the most widely-read stories on Biometric Update this…
Pindrop presents three research papers on voice biometrics, speech recognition at ICASSP
Three research papers from Pindrop have been presented at the 2022 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP), and indicate…
Tech5 establishes new biometric research centers in Portugal and India
Tech5 is giving its Research and Development efforts a boost with the opening of two new centers to further research…
Entersekt partners with SA bank on ecommerce security with NuData behavioral biometrics
South Africa’s Capitec Bank has deployed Entersekt‘s mobile identity authentication feature, EMV 3-D Secure, which integrates NuData Security’s behavioral biometrics….
Payments startup gets $2.85M in pre-seed for multi-biometric ID platform
Wink, a Texas company, has raised $2.85 million in pre-seed funding for its payments and biometric identity platform that combines…
Simplified logins with single sign-on authentication and federated identity verification
As people create a myriad of accounts that require unique credentials for their online activities and have to navigate the…
Face biometrics performance advances with new algorithm, benchmarks
Face biometrics testing takes an outsized place among the week’s top headlines on Biometric Update, while commercial progress and big-money…
Biometric data must be processed with ‘European values’: EDPS opinion on Data Act
Clarity is needed to ensure special types of highly sensitive data such as biometrics and health information are fully protected…
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