Biometric vending machines draw $20M investment as retail app launches facial recognition
Age restricted purchase protections appear to be a growing use-case for facial biometrics, judging by a funding announcement and an…
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Can businesses be trusted with their hands in the public biometrics cookie jar?
Is it ethical for police to work with commercial entities to create live facial recognition systems? It is a question…
Schools’ biometrics trials fined in Poland, launched in NJ, and criticized in Australia
A school in Gdansk, Poland, has been fined PLN 20,000 (roughly US$5,300) by the European Data Protection Board over a…
CCPA and face recognition to ensure personal privacy
This is a guest post by Shaun Moore, founder of Trueface. Data privacy is becoming an increasingly important topic as…
LIPS Corporation
Founded in 2013 by a group of MIT scholars, LIPS is a pioneer in 3D sensing and AI technologies, and…
Hanvon develops facial recognition that works with masks to combat coronavirus
Chinese intelligent interaction company Hanwang Technology, also known in English as Hanvon, says it has developed a facial recognition system…
Comba Telecom adds facial biometrics to access control solution
Comba Telecom has released an advanced biometric facial recognition access control solution for enterprises to deliver advanced security and multi-functional…
Pixel 4 displays nonfunctional ‘require eye to be open’ facial recognition setting
Introduced in October 2019, Google’s Pixel 4 included a vulnerability in the biometric Face Unlock feature which did not check…
Biometrics and digital ID in Africa this week: increasing CCTV surveillance, new ID document contracts
Madagascar and Zimbabwe seem to be shifting toward far greater government surveillance with public CCTV networks, according to reports this…
Biometric passports, digital ID initiatives in Africa and contactless tech top this week’s biometrics news
The spread of biometrics systems in Africa in the public and private sector, in particular in Nigeria, topped the stories…
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