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Fingerprint matching system developed in-house by NADRA reaches market launch
NADRA has launched its domestically-developed AFIS as a commercial solution, under the name NADIR, which translates to “unique” in Urdu. .. read more here

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Banks seeking frictionless transactions: Multiple biometrics proposed
Batman said, it is not who I am but what I do that defines me; the same is the case...
 
Hard Yaka leads Universal Ledger’s $10M round for ID-first digital wallet
South Carolina-based Universal Ledger, which has emerged from stealth mode, has closed a $10 million round to launch a digital...
Clearview’s new storage system reduces stress on CPUs for database scalability
Clearview AI has introduced an update to its NNDB (Nearest Neighbor Database) system for indexing and searching billions of face...
 
Elenium looks at a little-known tool for funding at $185M valuation
Another rainy-day funding scheme has found a fan in Elenium Automation, a face and palm biometrics supplier focused on the...
Canadian provincial privacy commissioner chides major retailer for biometrics deployment
At least four British Columbia locations of iconic national retailer Canadian Tire failed to show a reasonable purpose for their...
 
Government of India proposes Aadhaar authentication for businesses
The Government of India has recently released a draft notification proposing “voluntary” use of Aadhaar one-time passcode (OTP) or biometric...
Okta leaders hit with insider-trading class action
A shareholder of cloud-based authenticator Okta has filed a potential class action against the company making a number of accusations...
 
Liveness detection to take biometric adoption to new heights
By Carla Roncato and Chris Burt There is a compelling reason to believe that in the next few years, the...
Biometrics research community convenes in Switzerland to tackle top technical challenges
Biometrics researchers have an array of ideas for technologies, metrics and architectures to address the most serious threats to biometric...
 
The politics of facial recognition in the US still swings like pendulum
U.S. privacy advocates scored one of their few recent legislative victories, pushing through a near-total ban on government use of...
Liberia enrols 1.4M citizens in ‘flawed’ 1st phase biometric voter registration
The first phase of Liberia’s first-ever biometric voter registration process which saw the enrolment of 1.4 million people has been...
 
Uganda new ID plans reportedly stalled; 3M current cards unclaimed
The National Identification and Registration Authority of Uganda (NIRA) may not be able to deliver on its promise of issuing...
PayPay and Yahoo! Japan launch face biometrics payments at convenience store
Japanese e-payment service firm PayPay is working with Yahoo! Japan to test a face biometrics payment platform at Yahoo! Mart...
 
Precise seeks funding to weather smartphone biometrics dip
A second proposed share issue for Precise Biometrics in less than a year – after the previous one disappointed —...
  Outcome of public digital infrastructures should be social before being economical
  Malaysian digital ID companies pair up to address government market
  Tech5 joins Secure Identity Alliance and OSIA to advance open standards in digital ID
  Fingerprint matching system developed in-house by NADRA reaches market launch
  SynSense raises new funding for 3D edge vision chips, expects to reach $29M in B round
  Sale of Idemia may net less, result in a bust-up
Biometrics White Papers
From good to great: The right biometrics capabilities for better banking
The banking industry was already a major user of biometric solutions before the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the pandemic accelerated the...
 
One selfie to rule them all: Could distributed biometrics revolutionize the way we authenticate?
Traditional biometric authentication methods, which include both local and server-side biometrics, have limitations that need to be addressed. Local biometrics...
Securing identity in a world shared with virtual humans
How biometrics and liveness detection have evolved to protect us from deepfake- and chat-powered fraud Deepfakes have been identified as...
 
January 2023 update to ISO/IEC standard 30107-3: How do changes affect development and testing?
In January of 2023, ISO/IEC published a new, second edition of the 30107-3 standard that replaces the earlier, first edition...
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