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TSA plans for airport biometrics, mDLs hinted at in DHS webinar
America appears to be moving steadily towards allowing travelers to perform biometric checks with their smartphones with mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs), as discussed in a video produced by the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology directorate .. Keep reading this report here

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Biometric Update Daily News
Biometric identity verifications by iProov grow by 15X in first half of 2021
The number of biometric identity verifications performed by iProov increased by 15 times during the first half of 2021, as the...
 
Idemia notes strength in iris biometrics market forecast for $4.8B value in 2027
Iris biometrics are booming, Idemia writes in an article on its website, noting the growth in use of iris recognition in...
U.S. plans combat cloud upgrade for secure biometric logins from anywhere
General John Hyten, vice chairman of America’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently called for improvements on the U.S. enterprise cloud...
 
Innovatrics adds offline MRZ-reading to biometric onboarding solution
Innovatrics has added offline parsing of ID documents’ machine-readable zones (MRZs) to its biometric Digital Onboarding Toolkit (DOT) mobile components for...
Brazil’s Bahia State contracts $131M facial recognition system to tackle criminality
Bahia State Governor Rui Costa has okayed the disbursement of funds for the deployment of a facial recognition surveillance system...
 
Digital ID technologies to extend KYC launched, funded, reach new use cases and grow revenue
Digital ID and know your customer (KYC) solution providers are bringing new technologies to market, in the case of Socure...
Credit unions adopt biometrics from Access Softek, Enacomm and Nuance
Financial services solutions provider Access Softek has recently unveiled two separate biometrics partnerships. The first one, with Enacomm, will see...
 
Remark, CyberLink report strong biometric test grades, Innovatrics touts FRVT value
Remark Holdings says its latest biometric algorithm was among the top five ranked for accuracy with masked faces during a...
Digital health passes worldwide: progress, setbacks and still a void in the US
Authorities around the world are rushing to provide ways their citizens can prove their COVID-19 status both at home and...
 
Could doctors be the key to trust in the biometrics machine?
A new Pew Charitable Trusts study into Americans’ thoughts about sharing their medical data holds a surprising clue in the...
Monitoring synthetic voices as they get realer
In the United States, at least, nothing interesting happens until it happens to a celebrity. Nothing important happens until it...
 
US president nominates new head of NIST
Laurie E. Locascio is nominated by U.S. President Joe Biden as the Commerce Department’s next Undersecretary for Standards and Technology,...
TSA plans for airport biometrics, mDLs hinted at in DHS webinar
America appears to be moving steadily towards allowing travelers to perform biometric checks with their smartphones with mobile driver’s licenses...
 
Ready for handling Metaverse biometric data?
If or when the internet transitions into the Metaverse — something Facebook is already working towards — the amount of...
 
 
 
 
 
 
Events and Webinars
2nd CCTV EXPO
  August 18, 2021 - August 19, 2021
2nd CCTV EXPO New Delhi, India August 18-19, 2021 CCTV Expo is a specialized exhibition in India for CCTVs, access...
5th India Homeland Security Expo
  August 18, 2021 - August 19, 2021
5th India Homeland Security Expo New Delhi, India August 18-19, 2021 Asian countries are spending heavily on the homeland security....
6th International Police Expo
  August 18, 2021 - August 19, 2021
6th International Police Expo New Delhi, India August 18-19, 2021 The International Police Expo is the only exhibition with an...
The Security Event
  September 7, 2021 - September 9, 2021
The Security Event Birmingham, UK September 7-9, 2021 The Security Event is the UK’s exhibition for the commercial and residential...
Turing Trustworthy Digital Identity Conference
  September 13, 2021 - September 13, 2021
Turing trustworthy digital identity conference Online September 13, 2021 – 10am-5pm BST This conference presented by The Alan Turing Institute...