Selfie biometrics roll out for USPTO, gaming company, but Rhode Island takes a pass
U.S. government agencies and online service companies continue to deploy selfie biometrics to balance fraud reduction, compliance and user experience,…
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Simplified Arrival face biometrics reaches 5 new ports, faces questions
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), meanwhile, has launched its Simplified Arrival face biometrics to a pair of pedestrian border…
Contactless biometric immigration checks roll out in Hong Kong
Hong Kong has deployed a biometric “e-channel” at Hong Kong International Airport, Hong Kong-Zuhai Macau Bridge and Shenzhen Bay border…
South Africa seeks secure biometric solution for taxpayer management
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has published a tender seeking a contractor for the supply of a multi-modal biometric…
Minister restates mandatory nature of digital ID for Nigerians
Nigeria’s Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Ali Isa Pantami, has re-stated the need for every Nigerian to register for…
NTNU-linked biometrics startup Mobai strengthens executive team
Biometric digital ID verification platform Mobai has added two new executives to its management team to further its objectives of…
Veridas achieves high scores in NIST face and voice biometrics accuracy evaluation
Veridas has scored impressive results in the joint face-and-voice-recognition biometrics evaluation from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)….
Fourthline report warns of identity verification technologies causing more manual reviews
Banks and fintechs are dedicating between three and five percent of their overall compliance cost to the digital identity verification…
Yoti pitches offline digital ID to support informal cross-border trade in Lesotho
Informal cross-border trade is crucial to the lives of many people in Lesotho, but 10 percent of the country’s population…
Everyday payment needs in tough real world conditions? IrisGuard can help
While biometrics are being adopted for an ever-wider range of use cases, and most familiar to many people as the…
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