Biometrics stocks update: NEC positioning, SuperCom warning and a wild ride for BrainChip
Three NEC divisions have made announcements related to biometrics and digital identity, while SuperCom has issued notification about a stock-price…
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VisionLabs brings facial recognition to Atlas AI accelerator with Huawei partnership
VisionLabs has signed a cooperative agreement with Huawei to combine its face biometrics with the latter’s computer vision and artificial intelligence accelerator…
Huawei partners to provide financial institutions biometric tool for secure remote loan onboarding
Huawei and Sunline have jointly released a new contactless tool with biometric authentication for financial services, called the Digital Loan…
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,…
Huawei could bring full-display fingerprint biometrics to mobile devices
Biometric device unlocking with fingerprint scanning may soon be possible by pressing anywhere on the touchscreen, as Huawei has filed…
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…
U.S. bans business deals with leading Chinese biometrics providers
Tensions generated by COVID-19, China’s actions in Hong Kong and an extensive trade war have led to the U.S. government’s…
Biometrics emerges as key mobile payments trend, Huawei launches digital wallet for retail POS sales in Thailand
Mobile POS systems will be used by 23 percent of people globally by 2024, with biometrics among significant new trends…
Back to the ballots for biometrics in Africa: 1M dead on Ghana electoral roll, Zambia rushes biometric verification
Back to the ballots for biometrics news headlines across Africa this week. In Ghana, parliament has approved a measure that…
A new bridge between Huawei and Trustonic for secure biometric app development
Trustonic Ltd. says its mobile application security development platform now supports Huawei Technologies’ hardware-backed Trusted Execution Environments, where biometrics are…
