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Congo to hire consultants for legal frameworks of digitized identity, civil register
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Jumio downsizes as identity verification providers respond to economic climate
Jumio has laid off more than 100 from its workforce, a source tells Biometric Update. The company confirmed that it...
 
Clear must re-enroll 48K members after it’s found they weren’t biometrically checked
Biometric ID verifier Clear Secure is categorically denying it has experienced security vulnerabilities or violations. A trade publication is reporting...
Potentially a big week for Microsoft’s AI aspirations
Vall-e has chopped its learning time to 3 seconds, and Microsoft might be near big stake in Open AI. Microsoft...
 
EU data protection supervisor warns on migrant privacy rights
The European Union’s data protection supervisor (EDPS), Wojciech Wiewiórowski, has recently revealed that European institutions and bodies often afford limited...
California proposed budget sustains digital ID project funding
Modernization of key identity systems in the U.S. state of California is a small but unusually sunny part of the...
 
Sierra Leone signs up for national digital ID pilot built with MOSIP
Sierra Leone has struck a deal with MOSIP to build and pilot a national digital ID system with open source...
Pakistan ID authority shares data of 4K wanted people for biometric matching
NADRA has shared the images of more than 4,000 wanted individuals with a public safety body to enable biometric matching...
 
Germany positioned to dig heels in over EU’s AI Act, biometrics use
Germany is positioning itself more closely with the European Parliament rapporteurs’ aims for stricter protections in areas such as biometric...
Totm issues shares to complete $46M International Biometrics acquisition
Totm Technologies has paid $46.1 million to complete the acquisition of the remaining 49 percent stake it did not own...
 
Tax service firm contracts authID’s Verified authentication platform
New York-based authID has announced a new customer win. Tax data and Internal Revenue Service account monitoring firm Tax Status...
Apple’s Face ID biometrics to go under display after iPhone 15
As mobile phone innovation slows to how much screen space is taken by cameras and sensors, rumors purport that the...
 
Fujitsu biometric self enrolment kiosks piloted for presentation attack detection
The Home Office in the United Kingdom will be running an unsupervised self-service kiosk trial in the UK relying on...
USAF considers adding face biometrics to plate reading at base
The U.S. Air Force wants to add facial recognition in a proof of concept to an already partially automated entry...
 
Idex strikes second bank deal to launch biometric payment cards in Turkey this year
Idex Biometrics has signed a deal to supply a second biometric payment card project in Turkey. A Turkish regional bank...
  Pakistan set for digital census with tablets supplied by NADRA
  Moscow Metro to expand Face Pay biometric service as customer base grows
  Facial recognition to identify Brazilian capital rioters, digital forensics even more
  Kids are guinea pigs in schools’ biometric data privacy experiments
  Philippines to collaborate with Belgium, China on digital ID
  Biometric access control in Cancún could spill out into the region
Biometrics White Papers
Multispectral imaging (MSI) fingerprint technology
Organizations increasingly rely on digital technologies to validate identities for secure interactions and services such as banking transactions, medication dispensing,...
 
Presentation attack detection: Measuring performance of APCER and BPCER
APCER and BPCER are acronyms for error rates used to quantify the performance of presentation attack detection (PAD) systems. This...
Improving the ATM experience with biometrics multi-factor authentication
ATMs in the U.S. and other parts of the world have generally validated the identity of bank customers with something...
 
On-demand webinar – Human or machine: AI proves best at spotting biometric attacks
With large organizations processing millions of face checks monthly, one advantage of AI liveness detection is the reduced burden on...
Events and Webinars
Ethics, biometrics and AI: the good, the bad and the ugly – Why European Parliament’s concerns are probably disproportionate
  January 31, 2023
Aviation Festival Asia 2023
  February 28, 2023 - March 1, 2023
World Police Summit
  March 7, 2023 - March 9, 2023
SECON 2023
  March 29, 2023 - March 31, 2023
Digital Onboarding Forum
  April 12, 2023 - April 13, 2023
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