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Mastercard experimenting with palm print biometrics on smartphones in digital shift
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WTTC and Sita encourage collaboration for unified biometric travel as systems expand
The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) wants to bring the sector together to develop a single biometric identifier for...
 
Chinese researchers develop 500MP camera to capture facial biometrics in crowds
Chinese academic researchers have developed a 500 megapixel cloud camera that can collect detailed facial data in crowded spaces such...
Idemia NSS appoints first Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer to lead biometrics research
Idemia National Security Solutions (NSS) has announced the appointment of Dr. Mark J. Burge, who is known in the artificial...
 
Aadhaar biometric services expand to ‘mobile ATMs’ as credentials could be unified
The digital census being undertaken for India’s National Population Registry (NPR), which link residents biometric and biographic details, could potentially...
Concern over deepfakes, social media attitudes grows ahead of US elections
As the 2020 US presidential election inches closer, new efforts are underway to fight what’s expected to be an increase...
 
Aware white paper examines the state of biometric liveness
The importance of liveness detection in mobile onboarding and a range of other use cases is clearly seen in the...
ACM launches Technology Policy Council to guide advocacy efforts
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), has announced the formation of the new ACM Technology Policy Council to coordinate the...
 
Onfido and Socure take honors for digital identity verification innovation
A pair of digital identity verification companies have been recognized for their contributions to financial and artificial intelligence innovation. Onfido...
Alliex invests $700M in cashless biometric POS infrastructure in Vietnam
South Korean financial solutions company Alliex will spend some $700 million to deploy a shared cashless POS infrastructure system across...
 
Taiwan startup competes with Google on high-accuracy gesture recognition
A few months ago, Google announced its new Pixel 4 smartphone would include two new human-machine interface (HMI) technologies: facial...
IDnow joins FIDO Alliance to help boost online transaction security
Biometric identification and eSigning provider IDnow has come aboard the FIDO Alliance, alongside tech giants such as Google, Amazon, Softbank,...
 
Afghanistan races to train election employees on biometric devices
Nearly 100,000 contracted employees of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) of Afghanistan are in training to use biometric fingerprint scanners...
ID4D initiatives and TSA trials top this week’s biometrics and digital ID news
For the second consecutive week, Nigeria and airport biometrics made headlines on Biometric Update, though for different reasons. Several of...
 
Aware appoints former Idemia executive as new CEO and President
Aware has announced the appointment of Robert A. Eckel as chief executive officer and president, effective immediately, with former CEO,...
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  ID2020 and partners launch program to provide digital ID with vaccines
  UNHCR works toward self-managed refugee identity with biometrics to improve settlement outcomes
  Mastercard experimenting with palm print biometrics on smartphones in digital shift
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