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Biometrics companies pitch better customer experience to African businesses
Biometrics could make life easier for customers and the businesses providing services alike. Applications and platforms from established technology providers such as Daon and African startups could enable financial services in Africa to leapfrog legacy digital identification methods and progress straight to biometric verification ... Read the whole story here.

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Digital ID in Africa this week: Biometric ghost-busting, marbles and a digital census
Even more aspects of life will soon involve digital identification, especially for Ghanaians as the country prepares for its first...
 
Kairos and founder Brain Brackeen settle lawsuits against each other
Facial recognition provider Kairos and Founder Brian Brackeen have reached a settlement in their respective lawsuits against each other, dropping...
Airport biometric deployments continue, but not fast enough for IATA
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) will propose a resolution at its annual general meeting to accelerate the implementation of...
 
Facial recognition for security in Macau, Moscow, and Toronto
Casino operators in Macau may be obligated to deploy biometric facial recognition to their in-house security systems when the local...
IDEX Biometrics names Derek P. D’Antilio Chief Financial Officer
IDEX Biometrics has appointed Derek P. D’Antilio as Chief Financial Officer effective July 8, 2019. D’Antilio, who has over 20...
 
Indian facial recognition startups tackle retail and KYC markets
ParallelDots has won the $50,000 Tech4Future challenge from among 300 startups for its artificial intelligence platform with biometric facial recognition...
Facial biometrics applied to concert ticketing and bar bans – but 31 percent of people don’t trust the tech
Businesses are planning to use biometric facial recognition to enforce broad bans against certain individuals attending concerts or bars, but...
 
Callsign partners with Vonage API platform to deliver behavioral biometrics through different channels
Callsign and Vonage have partnered to secure communications with banking customers over various channels with Callsign’s behavioral biometrics and Vonage’s...
IDEMIA biometric tech featured in new Centaman entrance control gate
Australian entrance control solutions provider Centaman has integrated IDEMIA‘s MorphoWave contactless biometric finger scanner into its EasyGate SPT speedgate. According...
 
Scotland considers appointing Independent Biometrics Commissioner
Scottish Parliament is considering a bill to appoint an independent commissioner for biometrics to improve the handling of biometric data...
Tu Identidad raises $600K to grow KYC platform with fingerprint and voice biometrics
KYC platform Tu Identidad has raised $600,000 to continue the development of its portable, user-owned, standardized digital multi-biometric ID credential...
 
Weibo user claims to have matched 100K women from porn with facial recognition
A Germany-based user of Chinese social media network Weibo says he has used biometric facial recognition to match more than...
Researchers develop “digital watermarks” to detect deepfakes
Researchers from the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University are developing methods to identify when an image has...
 
SecuGen adds to growing portfolio of free biometric software
SecuGen has added the SecuGen SDK Plugin for Remote Desktop to its growing portfolio of free biometric software. The SDK...
 
 
 
 
 
 
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