Alibaba and China Mobile rumored to be investing $443M in Dahua’s biometric surveillance business
Dahua may be in line for a major investment in its biometric surveillance business from Alibaba and China Mobile, with Reuters reporting…
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Zwipe partners on fingerprint sensor milling and embedding for biometric payment cards at mass volumes
Zwipe has partnered with card manufacturing equipment supplier Cardmatix to collaborate on equipment and modular solutions to support milling and embedding…
China wants covid swabs. Hong Kong fears biometric spying
In a stark example of how authoritarian biometrics policies designed to enforce order can instead cause instability, Hong Kongers are…
Hikvision biometric surveillance equipment gets deeper into the Baltics
Hikvision, the partially Chinese state-owned maker of video surveillance and biometric facial recognition systems, bought a Baltic-region wholesaler of surveillance…
SenseTime’s biometrics business grows during COVID-19 despite U.S. ban
Despite being included on the U.S. Entity List of blacklisted Chinese companies, SenseTime’s business has been flourishing in China, where…
SenseTime planning year’s biggest biometrics IPO after all, seeking $8.5B valuation
The blockbuster biometrics IPO once planned by SenseTime may come off in Hong Kong this year after all, Bloomberg reports, perhaps…
China creates privacy codes with biometric data protections, but is it just for show?
China’s first civil code — ever — is scheduled to go live January 1. It will pay particular attention to…
Dahua and Hikvision biometric cameras not allowed at U.S. universities as contractor ban begins
The deadline for U.S. federal contractors to comply with bans on using equipment from biometric surveillance suppliers Hikvision and Dahua,…
SenseTime drops plans for UK HQ to expand international face biometrics operations
Chinese biometric facial recognition provider SenseTime is not moving forward with its plans of setting up an office in the…
Serb biometric surveillance raising alarms; Chinese systems play into regional insecurities
A small online publisher in far southern Europe reports that individual privacy rights are being ignored in Serbia as advanced…
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