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$1M funding for homeland security tech for US, Israel firms via BIRD Foundation
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IDloop develops 3D fingerprint scanner with microscopic resolution, joins accelerator
Germany-based IDloop has developed a contactless 3D fingerprint scanner that it says is the first of its kind with microscopic...
 
Activists decry Bangalore plan for facial recognition video surveillance
The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), an Indian civil society group working to protect internet liberties, is calling for an end...
Evrotrust digital ID and e-signature customer takes stake for €2.5M
Evrotrust has raised 2.5 million euros (roughly US$2.7 million) in funding from a customer ahead of a planned series A...
 
Prominent digital identity groups Kantara, WPF, Bitkom add leaders
Influential associations in digital identity technologies and biometrics Kantara Initiative, Bitkom and the World Privacy Forum (WPF) have added new...
Indian Railway Police Force Chief reports 96% accuracy in facial recognition system trial
The Director-General of the Railway Police Force (RPF), Sanjay Chander, has informed The Hindu in an interview that the Indian...
 
UK digital identity moves department, financier demands ‘economic digital ID’
Oversight of the UK government’s digital identity projects have moved home, but so too has the boss. The newly-formed department,...
Infineon, TrustSEC team up to strengthen biometric smart card security
Infineon Technologies AG and TrustSEC have joined forces to launch BIO-SLCOS, a smart cards operating system utilizing Infineon’s latest SLC38...
 
Facial recognition and authentication in retail: reduce waits, staff and maybe privacy
“Facial recognition technologies are the simplest way to dramatically reduce wait times,” writes the manager for biometrics at HID. While...
Sumsub, iDenfy, Identomat and Plaid each move to ease compliance checks for businesses
A ‘Complete Guide to Business Verification (KYB)’ has been published by Sumsub to help B2B companies mitigate rising fraud rates...
 
South Africa’s plans for integrated digital ID advance as cabinet approves dedicated bill
The National Identification and Registration Bill 2022, a piece of draft legislation which seeks to introduce a single and integrated...
Biometric cuffs being introduced to US county jail
A county sheriff’s office in the U.S. state of Georgia is going to put biometric wrist bracelets on its jail...
 
More talk about ethical AI but it’s still mostly just talk
In a rare conjunction, February has seen formal global, national, regional and intensely local discussions, independent of each other, about...
Double anonymity to bring age verification to porn and social media in France
“2023 will see the end of access to pornographic sites for our children,” said French Digital Minister Jean-Noël Barrot at...
 
Privacy still a good talking point for US federal govt but poor action item
The U.S. Government Accountability Office, the highest scold in the land, sounds tired of being ignored with in comes to...
  $1M funding for homeland security tech, biometrics for US, Israel firms via BIRD Foundation
  Tile to do what it says most laws don’t: make stalking with location tags painful
  Biometrics systems in airports warming with the weather
  Reveal kicks off body cam trials for football referees
  Scottish opposition presses to expand biometrics commissioner oversight role
  Nviso, Privately partner to integrate age verification solution into emotion-sensing Japanese retail kiosks
Biometrics White Papers
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...
 
Single-frame facial liveness detection: How it works to reduce user friction and abandonment
The ability to ascertain facial liveness from a single-image frame enables high-performance presentation attack detection without adding friction to the...
ISO PAD and FIDO testing comparison
Two of the most popular testing services that iBeta offers are ISO 30107 compliance, and FIDO Biometrics Component Certification. To...
 
Solving fraud in banking with trusted identities
One of the biggest challenges facing banks today is providing secure and trusted services while substantially improving the customer experience....
Events and Webinars
Aviation Festival Asia 2023
  February 28, 2023 - March 1, 2023
Workshop on protection of biometric data under GDPR
  March 1, 2023
World Police Summit
  March 7, 2023 - March 9, 2023
7th Edition Connected Banking Summit East Africa
  March 7, 2023
GISEC 2023
  March 14, 2023 - March 16, 2023
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