Rights group urges more transparency from biometric surveillance vendors in LatAm
Digital rights group Access Now urged biometric surveillance companies operating in Latin America for more transparency after presenting a new…
Latin America
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MOSIP to push into Latin America, Caribbean with identity council collaboration
MOSIP looks set to supply its identity platform to countries across the Caribbean and Latin America with the signing of…
Oz Forensics expands biometrics market presence in South America with Mototech partnership
US-based biometrics expert Oz Forensics has joined forces with technology partner Mototech to expand its market presence in South America….
Trulioo asks the market about ID verification, hears agreement on its need
New vendor-funded research indicates that consumers ae aware of the importance of digital ID verification and feel warmer toward companies…
Sovos buys TOC Biometrics to target fraud and compliance markets
Tax and regulatory software maker Sovos has acquired TOC Biometrics, a Chile-based company specializing in identity verification technology. The transaction…
Brazil’s unico plans selfie biometrics expansion in Latin America after raising $100M
São Paulo, Brazil-based unico has raised $100 million in a Series D funding round and plans to expand into other…
FacePhi plans biometrics expansion in LATAM with new Uruguay subsidiary
FacePhi turns its attention to Latin America as it opens a subsidiary in Montevideo, Uruguay to provide technical support and…
NGOs sound alarm over facial recognition systems’ lack of transparency in Latin America
The Al Sur NGO consortium has published a new report calling facial recognition implementation by some Latin American governments ‘perverse.’…
The allure of Chinese ‘digital authoritarianism’ for Latin America
Concern that Chinese technology in Venezuela and Cuba which is allowing the states to exercise ‘social control’ over their populations…
Tech5 face biometrics deployed for COVID-19 status verification in Chile
Tech5 is providing its facial recognition technology to assist Chile’s COVID-19 health status verification efforts to prevent the spread of the…
