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Familiar faces take on new roles in biometrics and security
Several recent hirings and appointments are indicative of continued growth in the biometrics and securities sectors. Transitions at Wicket, Sift,...
 
Tougher laws urged after 1 in 5 kiwis lose data in Latitude attack
The New Zealand government estimates that 20 percent of its citizens were victimized in an attack on the Australian consumer...
European standards agency presents new proof of concept for user-centric digital ID
Up until recently, interaction with smart products and services often did not live up to users’ expectations due to technical...
 
Biometric privacy cases churn on, but talk of legal reform gets louder
Amazon and beefery McDonald’s are separately involved in new class-action filings about their alleged violation of a U.S. state biometric...
PopID adds palm for multimodal payments with Redrock partnership
PopID has introduced a new modality to its biometric retail payment system to give customers a choice between payments with...
 
Clear, Alaska Airlines, TSA deploy biometrics to ease US airport experience
Biometrics vendors and their aviation sector customers have recently completed new or analyzed existing biometrics deployments to make traveler journeys...
Can biometrics prevent school shootings?
With politics complicating a legislative response to unregulated firearms, there is a push to pursue the fortification of schools with...
 
AML and KYC compliance grows beyond banking
It has been a busy April for companies focusing on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) products, with...
Stakeholders examine benefits of digital public infrastructure at IMF meeting
Speakers at a seminar during the recent spring meetings of the Bretton Woods institutions (IMF and World Bank) shared thoughts...
 
South Carolina lawmakers promote biometrics to help find missing kids
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson and Senator Katrina Shealy are backing a biometric ID program aimed at helping families...
India state runs facial recognition on unsuspecting telco customers to fight fraud
Facial recognition algorithms reportedly have identified 30,000 fake SIM cards this spring in the west coast Indian state of Gujarat....
 
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
  Canadian provincial privacy commissioner chides major retailer for biometrics deployment
  Government of India proposes Aadhaar authentication for businesses
  Okta leaders hit with insider-trading class action
  Liveness detection to take biometric adoption to new heights
  Biometrics research community convenes in Switzerland to tackle top technical challenges
Biometrics White Papers
Using biometric technology to fight public sector benefit fraud
The pandemic caused a scramble to digitize typically in-person services in order to provide extensive financial aid to those in...
 
Yoti MyFace liveness white paper
Liveness is an essential part of any verification or authentication process. It gives you reassurance that you are dealing with...
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...
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Border Security & Intelligence Summit
  April 26, 2023 - April 27, 2023
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