Biometric Update for 06/08: Africa, funding, elections, IoT and edge, smart cities, biometric cards and more

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Biometric voter list in Ghana draws long lines and criticism, ID4Africa webinar series launch a hit

Innovation from and for the continent is one running theme in this week’s African biometrics news round-up, while issues around one of the core applications of the technology – biometric voter registers – remains the other .... Read the whole story here.
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Biometric voter list in Ghana draws long lines and criticism, ID4Africa webinar series launch a hit

Innovation from and for the continent is one running theme in this week’s African biometrics news round-up, while issues around...

Facial biometrics and smart city technology rise in Asia gets new incentive from pandemic

Facial recognition and other smart city technologies could be rolled out more quickly in Japan over the coming months, after...

Hikvision biometrics secure real estate developments in emirate of Ajman

Real estate developer AQAAR has chosen to implement Hikvision’s facial recognition and other AI technologies to secure construction in the...

Biometric contactless cards making a sprint for the mainstream

Ubiquitous contactless payments have always been a long-term inevitability. All it took to make them a smart short-term investment was...

Idemia releases multi-modal biometric tablet for mobile ID enrollment, verification

Idemia has released a third-generation multi-app biometric tablet for user enrollment and identity verification, the company announced. Leveraging the technology...

Zwipe secures order for small scale manufacturing of biometric payment cards

Following an ongoing partnership with Hong Kong-based Toppan Forms Card Technologies Limited, Zwipe has secured an order for biometric payment...

Biometrics experts call for creation of FDA-style government body to regulate facial recognition

Could a U.S. government agency modeled on the Food and Drug Administration that categorizes biometric facial recognition technologies according to...

Invixium raises $3M to address new demand for touchless biometrics with temperature screening

Invixium has successfully closed a $3 million funding round to address growth opportunities amid surging demand for touchless biometrics with elevated...

Facial recognition deployed for ATMs in Spain, POS systems in Brazil and relief payments in Australia

CaixaBank has installed biometric facial recognition-enabled ATMs across Spain, enhanced with cameras and software that can process 16,000 facial points,...

Rethinking biometrics in the IoT industry

This is a guest post bu Eva Na, CMO at Tuya Smart. Biometrics offer one answer to the fundamental question...

Indian Supreme Court considers new review of Aadhaar national biometric scheme’s legality

The Supreme Court of India will consider requests for a review of its previous decision that the country’s biometric national...

Albania to roll out biometric voter identification system, maybe not in time for next elections

Despite an agreement to use biometric identification in Albania, it may not be in the cards for the next elections...

Ping An tops object detection challenge, Trueface explains NIST face recognition speed result

An object detection model developed by Ping An Technology has set a record in the PASCAL VOC Challenge, with a mean...

Biometrics for payments and border control announcements suggest ongoing industry momentum

Surveys and analysts say the stage is set for biometric payment cards adoption in the emerging new normal, and that...

Biometric payment card commercialization coming this year says Fingerprint Cards CEO

New safe work temperature screening solutions launched by Trueface, ZKTeco, LLVision and eConnect

Yoti’s age verification, digital ID technologies chosen by StrongPoint, Volunteer Edinburgh

Judge rejects “98.75 percent discount” of $550M settlement in Facebook biometric privacy case

Faking vein scans is doable but maybe only after every single other option is exhausted

IDnow publishes KYC, digital identity resources as Onfido biometrics secure cryptoexchange

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