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Social inclusion and executive appointments lead this week’s biometrics and digital ID news
New image capturing technology for biometrics featured in Biometric Update’s two most frequently-read stories of the week in biometrics and digital identity, but social inclusion and executive appointments were also main themes ... Read the whole story here.

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Social inclusion and executive appointments lead this week’s biometrics and digital ID news
New image capturing technology for biometrics featured in Biometric Update’s two most frequently-read stories of the week in biometrics and...
 
Biometrics are in and anonymity out so fight for democratic rights, FedID keynote argues
Civil libertarians should not fear facial recognition and other biometrics, but the technologies must be correctly regulated to prevent negative...
Rights groups urge Scotland to grant Biometrics Commissioner broad oversight mandate
A coalition of rights advocacy groups has called on Scotland’s government to expand the scope of the proposed biometrics commissioner...
 
Vision-Box biometric departure smartgates deal with Australia extended to 2026
Australia’s Department of Home Affairs and Vision-Box have agreed to a five-year contract to extend the biometric SmartGates Departures Program...
Goodix demonstrates IoT solutions and biometrics for cars at Apsara Conference
Goodix is demonstrating its latest IoT products and smart applications based on its IoT platform’s core technologies at Alibaba Cloud’s...
 
HID Global to target Indian biometrics and smart card market in 2020
India will be a major emerging target market for HID Global in 2020, Indian publication Dataquest reports as the company...
Digital ID in Africa this week: mammoth biometric registration plans for Nigeria and Interpol in the Sahel
The sheer scale of the projects underway in Kenya and Nigeria mean that once again the two countries dominate Africa’s...
 
Amazon working on facial recognition regulation as groups write Congress to oppose bans
It makes a lot of sense to regulate biometric facial recognition technology, according to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who revealed...
‘Prone to hacking’: expert witness in Kenya’s Huduma Namba hearings first round
“[The National Integrated Identity Management System] thus is an archaic design compared to modern-day systems architecture and can be rightly...
 
EAB awards three researchers for contributions to fingerprint and facial biometrics
University of Ljubljana researcher Dr. Klemen Grm has won the first EAB Max Snijder Award for his research on processing...
 
 
 
 
 
 
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