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First look: baby biometrics to tackle swaps, kidnaps and missing children
Brazilian firm Natosafe is attempting to tackle baby swapping in maternity units with a mix of biometrics and AI to create profiles that link mother and baby minutes after birth and which can be checked when parent and child leave hospital .. read the full report here

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Proposed facial recognition use rules for Irish police hits resistance among slim majority
Green Party ministers in the Cabinet of Ireland’s coalition government, as well as Health Minister Stephen Donnelly, have expressed concerns...
 
UNDP launches bids for biometric registration kits for Fiji’s planned civil registry
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is seeking to tender a contract for biometric registration kits for Fiji to help...
Insurance coverage for Illinois BIPA ruling
By Peter Halprin and Tae Andrews, Pasich LLP Recent litigation has raised the stakes for companies facing lawsuits brought under...
 
Digital identity can be ‘highly exclusionary’ for social protection: UN report
“Digital identity systems should not be a prerequisite for benefiting from social protection schemes and when they are set up,...
Stakeholders debate legality, efficacy of South Africa’s biometric SIM registry proposal
Mobile network operators and digital media companies in South Africa have taken a series of complaints about proposed biometric identity...
 
National digital ID to be launched by Senegal, legislative foundation proposed for Finland
Senegal has, in partnership with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), launched a national digital identity project after wide consultations...
Neurotechnology integrates MOSIP to serve open-source biometrics, digital ID projects
Neurotechnology has integrated MOSIP with its MegaMatcher Software Development Kit (SDK) and MegaMatcher Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) products to...
 
Amazon trains retail systems with synthetic palm biometric database
Amazon has been steadily improving its biometric retail systems, according to a presentation by Vice President of Physical Retail and...
Zitadel raises $2.5M for open-source digital identity platform
Switzerland-based firm Zitadel has raised $2.5 million for the development of an open-source identity and access management (IAM) platform focusing...
 
Millions in funding in UK for AI ethics, Canada for digital ID privacy research
The U.K.’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has unveiled a new program worth £8.5 million ($10.43 million) that will...
Digital ID provider SignD selects Smart Engines for OCR-powered credit card scanning
Smart Engines has entered a new collaboration with SignD, a know your client (KYC) service provider offering 30 different digital...
 
Sentry Enterprises, ID.me, authID.ai receive authentication, data security certifications
A number of companies in the biometric space have received new qualifications, with Sentry Enterprises announcing the completion of FIDO2...
Big decisions for biometrics vendors amid broader market uncertainty
Any new rumors about a possible Idemia sale sends waves through the biometrics industry and grabs headlines, as happened with...
 
US House Democrats resurrect bill to ban body cams paired with facial recognition
A facial recognition ban has been reintroduced on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. It would prohibit federal...
  New biometric passport in India could debut by year end
  Liquid Avatar upgrades SSI consumer app as staggering growth forecast for decentralized ID
  Staffing investments continue apace at digital ID firms, but cuts also announced
  ‘Grammy said I could stay up late!’ Amazon hints at deepfake voices as family bonding
  First look: baby biometrics to tackle swaps, kidnaps and missing children
  Pair of Apple patents hint at wrist biometrics in MacBooks, under-display sensors for iPhones
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