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Who’s the next U.S. funder to get tangled in Washington’s China sanctions
One of the companies recently added to Washington's Entity List is facial recognition startup Deep Glint, which has been funded by major U.S. VC firm Sequoia Capital .. Read the full report here

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More selfie biometrics could ease government and financial service access in UK, Australia, US
A single sign-on for government service access is in development in the UK, Australia’s government has published a case study...
 
Kaizen Secure Voiz voice biometrics, passive liveness detection chosen for contact centers
Contact center service provider Invita Bahrain has selected voice biometrics from Kaizen Secure Voiz for identity verification, speech authorization, speech analytics...
Suprema ID, Simprints, SenseTime, Pindrop, GBG, ID2020 welcome new executives, advisors
Biometrics providers Suprema ID, Simprints, SenseTime, Pindrop and GBG, along with ID2020, have all hired new executives and advisors to...
 
Biometric verification allows ‘dignified’ distribution of 6.4M meals to Rohingya refugees
The Bangladesh part of the ‘100 Million Meals’ campaign has been completed, allowing 36,000 refugees to purchase food from camp...
Touch ID and Face ID: Real biometrics or not?
By Mike Engle, Chief Strategy Officer at 1Kosmos Every organization has been affected by cyber attacks. In fact, 2,200 organizations...
 
Idemia touchless biometrics integrated by Bosch for secure access control
Idemia has entered into a global partnership with Bosch Building Technologies to add a biometric layer to the Bosch Building Integration...
China fights COVID with ‘one database, code and platform,’ UAE goes with auras
Biometric COVID-19 fever apps are making news again, in two cities, and in very novel ways. Meanwhile, privacy advocates who...
 
Police in Israel want greater freedom to use facial recognition
Israeli politicians are considering limits on how police use face biometrics to surveil the Middle Eastern nation, including its borders...
Lord Holmes discusses state of digital identity in the UK
Lord Holmes has been a Member of the House of Lords since 2013. He is also a member of the...
 
Easing biometrics implementation draws $12M Series B for Vu, $1.6M Seed round for HelloFlow
Vu Security has raised $12 million in its Series B funding round, and plans to add developer talent to accelerate the...
NEC showcases I:Delight biometrics with virtual customer experience center launch
NEC Corporation of America has launched its Virtual Customer Experience (VCX) center to showcase its artificial intelligence and biometric solutions...
 
Philippines digital ID project on track for 2021 target as Step 1 registration tops 37M
Authorities in the Philippines are optimistic the target set this year for registration for the national digital ID card (PhilID)...
Who’s the next U.S. funder to get tangled in Washington’s China sanctions
Before last week, those paying close attention to who was sanctioned by the U.S. government for involvement with China’s repression...
 
How digital identity authentication can help France’s document fraud problem: Fourthline
France has seen an explosion in the rates of identity and biometric document fraud; four times higher than the rest...
 
 
 
 
 
 
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