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French Senate seeks to protect against biometric surveillance – with biometric surveillance sandbox
The French Senate Law Commission has released a contradictory report into biometrics that seeks both to ensure France does not become a country of mass biometric surveillance, while recommending a three-year regulatory sandbox for testing biometric mass surveillance systems .. keep reading this report here

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Vida raises over $47M to address digital ID in Southeast Asia, investment market still hot
Vida, an Indonesian digital identity startup, raised $47.67 million in a funding round to help it meet the rising demand...
 
Border stakeholders plan next steps in biometrics rollouts with early lessons in tow
The role of biometrics at border crossings, including but not limited to airports, has only increased in importance post-pandemic, a...
Biometric IDs underperforming or accompanying international tensions
Travel documents are one of those facts of life that only seem truly important when the world feels like it...
 
SecuGen updates fingerprint biometrics line with new features, improved accuracy
SecuGen has announced the availability of its biometric Hamster Pro 30 fingerprint reader and U30 OEM sensor, both FBI-certified for...
Selfie biometrics customer wins in three verticals and SDK update unveiled
Trust Stamp has signed a deal with Ietus (formerly RentMoola), a cloud payment platform for property managers and tenants, to...
 
Jamaica picks Thales to upgrade voter identification system with biometrics
Thales has been hired to modernize Jamaica’s electronic voter ID system, strengthening voter identification and authentication with fingerprint biometrics, reports...
Innovatrics and Blaize partner up for facial recognition security at the edge
Innovatrics partners with edge computing and artificial intelligence (AI) company Blaize to build facial recognition applications for physical access control and...
 
Nigeria suspends biometric voter registration June 30, to improve ABIS system
The chairman of Nigeria’s National Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has announced that the biometric Continuous Voter Registration...
Trust Stamp and Vsblty lead gains among publicly-traded biometrics providers: earnings round-up
Trust Stamp and Vsblty have reported major revenue gains from their biometric technologies, while more modest gains were reported by...
 
Seeing the growth of biometrics in the growth of an ID research center
Hard as it might be to imagine today, scientists at Clarkson University’s Center for Identification Technology Research have over the...
Identity fraud: is a digital reshuffle needed as dangers increase?
By Lovro Persen, Director of Document Management and Fraud, IDnow The process we call online identity verification involves the storage...
 
Government digital identity projects hit milestones as next-generation approaches weighed
Developments in face biometrics applications, legal wrangling and databases inspired several of the most widely-read stories on Biometric Update this...
Biometrics providers continue to bring leadership talent in (or back)
Jumio, Socure, Veriff, OCR Labs, and SITA have each taken on new talent, including three c-suite executives and two regional...
 
Google debuts Wallet, new Pixel Watch and Phone at I/O event
At Google’s I/O developer conference this week, the company released its Wallet for Android, with plans for biometrically secured digital...
 
 
 
 
 
 
Events and Webinars
How to prevent fraud using AI-biometrics?
  May 17, 2022 - May 17, 2022
How to prevent fraud using AI-biometrics? EAB virtual lunch talk May 17, 2022 at 12:30-1:30pm CEST The European Association for...
IFSEC International
  May 17, 2022 - May 19, 2022
IFSEC International ExCel London May 17 – 19, 2022 IFSEC International, Europe’s leading integrated security event, is getting ready to...
Secure ID Forum
  May 24, 2022 - May 26, 2022
Secure Identification 2021 Riga, Latvia May 24 – 26, 2022 SECURE ID FORUM will gather in Riga decision makers and...
Showcase Australia 2022
  May 25, 2022 - May 25, 2022
Showcase Australia 2022 Canberra May 25, 2022 Showcase Australia provides a unique and effective platform to connect biometric users from...
Africa Pay & ID Expo
  May 26, 2022 - May 28, 2022
Africa Pay & ID Expo Marrakesh, Morocco May 26 – 28, 2022 The COVID-19 Crisis has clearly demonstrated the need...