ITIF, former DHS exec push back on criticisms of facial recognition use by US agency
The Internal Revenue Agency (IRS) should have taken a more measured response to the controversy around its use of identity…
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[Vendor-funded] Think tank: Consider worries about border AI but don’t touch the brake
U.S. border-control officials need to stop listening so intently to traveling Americans worried about the government’s growing use of facial…
FaceTec biometric identity proofing, liveness integrated for DeFi, metaverse trust
Decentralized identity management startup Avarta, which provides a multi-chain, multi-asset digital wallet secured with biometrics, has selected FaceTec’s 3D Face…
‘Datafication’ of EU borders and ballooning private-sector spending prompted by migrant crisis
Spending by European Union agencies on border-related technology and surveillance rocketed from 2014 onwards amid the migrant crisis, reports Statewatch,…
ID.me founder defends claims, growing use of its biometric verification by US gov
A media backlash against ID.me and the claims of its Co-founder and CEO Blake Hall has erupted in U.S. media…
Startup integrating real-time facial recognition from Corsight with police body cameras
Real-time facial recognition from Corsight is coming to body cameras that will be offered to law enforcement agencies around the…
Ghana to address challenges slowing ongoing biometric SIM re-registration
The Board of Directors of the National Communications Authority (NCA) and mobile telephone operators in Ghana have agreed on a…
NEC streamlines 1:N biometric matches for homomorphic encryption to protect data
Homomorphic encryption for biometric matching holds the promise of data protection even in use, and NEC Corporation is the latest technology…
Mantra Softech joins NIST facial recognition tests for verification and identification
Mantra Softech has participated for the first time in The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s Face Recognition Vendor…
IrisGuard updates mounted kiosk iris biometrics camera for 100 percent proof-of-life accuracy
Iris recognition specialist IrisGuard has released a new generation of its iris cameras for integrating biometrics with ATMs and kiosks…
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