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Brazil’s unico plans selfie biometrics expansion in Latin America after raising $100M
The funding round was led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc, with participation from previous investors SoftBank and General Atlantic, and gives unico a $2.6 billion valuation ... keep reading this report here

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Biometric Update Daily News
Paravision and HID Global co-developing new line of face biometric solutions
A new partnership has been formed between Paravision and HID Global to combine the former’s facial recognition and biometric liveness...
 
US oversight committee wants answers on ID.me biometric accuracy, contracts and more
The leaders of the U.S. House Oversight Committee have penned a lengthy letter to ID.me, The Washington Post reports, to inquire...
More automatic forensic biometric data sharing proposed for privacy-focused Europe
In another example of how sentiment about privacy is complex if not chaotic at the moment, European politicians are considering...
 
US continues lively debate over facial recognition and biometrics in law enforcement
Lawmakers in the state of Virginia debating the continued use of facial recognition by police and a paper presented by...
Zwipe chosen for Jordanian biometric payment cards pilot, integrated for access control
Zwipe has been chosen by CSC-Jordan to pilot the Jordanian financial company’s biometric payment cards built on the Zwipe Pay platform....
 
Nigeria’s biometric voter system detects over 1M invalid entries
Nigeria’s National Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that more than one million enrollments on the biometric Register of Voters,...
Jumio appoints new CTO, opens Innovation Lab in San Diego
Jumio brings on Stuart Wells as its new chief technology officer and cuts the ribbon for its Innovation Lab in San...
 
A UK regulator and former Chinese prisoner speak out on autocratic biometric surveillance
Days after the United Kingdom’s biometrics surveillance regulator asked a Chinese camera maker to publicly clarify its participation in the...
UK government opens bid for mobile fingerprint biometric enrollment devices
The British government published a request for tender seeking £450,000 (approximately $588,000) worth of mobile biometric enrollment devices to decrease...
 
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...
FIDO Alliance preparing more authentication professionals for passwordless future
The FIDO Alliance has announced that a new test window is open for experts willing to become FIDO Certified authentication...
 
Digital ID and biometrics among three Australia IT test project components awarded AU$20M
Australia’s Department of Home Affairs is due to pay out AU$20 million (approximately US$14.8 million) to fund test activities for...
Finland considers using biometrics from civil, travel registries to investigate major crimes
Finland’s Ministry of the Interior is looking into the legality of sharing fingerprint biometric data collected for passports and ID...
 
Updated MOSIP digital ID system is truly multilingual, supported for up to 5 years
After a quiet launch in February 2022, the team behind MOSIP 1.2 Long-term Support (LTS) Release known as ‘Asymmetric Amoeba’ explained...
 
 
 
 
 
 
Events and Webinars
ID4Africa LiveCasts: Mobile for Identity Management and Inclusive ID4D
  March 9, 2022 - April 27, 2022
ID4Africa LiveCasts: Mobile for Identity Management and Inclusive ID4D March 23, April 13 & 27: 13:30 GMT From the producers...
TDK Ventures presents DX Week 2022
  April 18, 2022 - April 21, 2022
TDK Ventures presents DX Week 2022 Virtual Event April 18-21, 2022 We live in a connected world. Sometimes, however, we...
Patch-based finger vein recognition using an auto encoder
  April 19, 2022 - April 19, 2022
Patch-based finger vein recognition using an auto encoder EAB virtual lunch talk April 19, 2022 at 12:30-1:30pm CEST The European...
SECON 2022
  April 20, 2022 - April 22, 2022
SECON 2022KINTEX, KoreaApril 20 – 22, 2022SECON is the biggest professional B2B security event as well as a comprehensive security...
Future Identity Finance
  April 26, 2022 - April 26, 2022
Future Identity Finance London, UK April 26th, 2022 The Future Identity festival was an overwhelming success back in November. Future...