Biometrics providers Elenium, Experian, and Idemia commended
Through the third week of 2021, a number of commendations and awards have been given to biometrics and digital identity…
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Arculus crypto card secured by mobile device biometrics unveiled
Arculus announced that its Wallet app users will soon be able to access and manage their stored cryptocurrency funds using…
UK Home Office under fire after losing 150K biometric records from police database
The UK Home Office has accidentally deleted an estimated 150,000 arrest history records from the Police National Computer (PNC), including…
VisionLabs and Smart Engines, Innovatrics announce biometric onboarding customer wins
The Emirates NBD bank will now allow customers to verify their identity documents via mobile when opening an account using…
People with disabilities shouldn’t have to choose device usability over security — researcher
Makers of consumer electronics who address accessibility typically work on vision aids, but people who cannot adequately control their arms…
Biometric voting machine failures isolated incidents, Uganda’s Electoral Commission says
An unknown number of biometric voter verification machines being used in Uganda’s election failed to verify the identity of people…
Cameroon moves to tackle hurdles impeding biometric IDs’ smooth issuance
Cameroon’s general delegation for national security, the body charged with overseeing the issuance of biometrics-backed digital national identity cards for…
ID4Africa Livecast – Open APIs as a Pathway to Identity and Sectoral System Development
ID4Africa Livecast – Open APIs as a Pathway to Identity and Sectoral System Development Online January 28, 2021, 13:30 –…
Huawei, Megvii, SenseTime patents describing biometric ethnicity detection, tracking revealed
Huawei and other China-based firms have attempted to protect technologies related to their ethnicity-tracking biometrics with patents, IPVM has discovered. The tech…
‘Lashing together’ biometrics development for the US intelligence community
Coordination of effort in the federal government has not been in vogue for four years, but one segment of the…
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