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Disclose facial recognition in discovery, no live biometric surveillance: City police chiefs
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EAB talk probes balance between border biometrics benefits and rights risks
Achieving a balance between the benefits of biometrics in border processes and the risk that they may cause harm to...
 
Online digital ID verification stays hot, survey shows 10 minute onboarding window
It is an eventful week for digital ID solutions in the financial sector, with Onfido publishing a new report, Shufti...
New VisionLabs POS terminal provides both face biometric and card payments
A new payment terminal from VisionLabs will be the first on the market to provide point-of-sale payments either through traditional credit...
 
Gov.uk digital identity app tender with $6.6M budget now open
The UK government is issuing a tender for a common digital identity check app for online access to services through...
HID Global showcases new Estonian biometric passport with world-first features, personalization
Citizens of Estonia will notice a range of new features as they start receiving the all-new biometric passport when they...
 
ForgeRock, Sun Microsystems co-founders launch IndyKite for open-source Web3 identity layer
Two tech leaders have teamed up to launch a startup creating a digital identity layer for people, devices and machines...
Malaysia to roll out biometrics-backed digital ID
Malaysia’s Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin has disclosed that the process to implement a digital identity system in the...
 
New funding for one facial recognition firm, features for another
Two computer vision startups, one taking venture capital and another crowdsourcing funding for its growth, are leaning on COVID restrictions...
Seoul shares face biometrics of 170M travelers with private firms
The South Korean government shared roughly 170 million face images of citizens and resident foreign nationals with the private sector...
 
Plurilock expands in India through CloudCodes assets acquisition
Plurilock has recently completed the acquisition of assets from Indian cloud access security broker CloudCodes Software, granting CloudCodes’ existing customers...
More bad news for Mexico’s proposed nationwide biometrics collection scheme
Mexico’s proposed mobile phone registry, which would collect biometric identifiers from all phone-account owners in the nation, this week was...
 
India tests mobile voting, arranges Aadhaar hackathon – both spell controversy
India is testing biometric, blockchain-based mobile phone voting for the first time in the hope of increasing turnout and reducing...
Biometrics are the future of decentralized identity, says Tech5’s Rob Haslam
Rob Haslam, strategy consultant at Tech5, believes that far from being opposed, biometrics will underpin the increasing use of decentralized identity...
 
Improving financial onboarding and authentication through biometrics
The world has truly gone digital. It is currently estimated that 3.8 billion people own a smartphone1, representing almost half...
 
 
 
 
 
 
Events and Webinars
Biometrics Institute Congress
  October 6, 2021 - October 26, 2021
Biometrics Institute Congress Online October 6th, 13th, 20th and 26th 2021 The Biometrics Institute Congress is the industry gathering for...
Money20/20 USA
  October 24, 2021 - October 27, 2021
Money20/20 USA Las Vegas October 24 – 27,2021 Money20/20 USA is the premier show for the fintech industry where C-level executives,...
i-On-Africa LiveCast: The CGD, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire Reports
  October 27, 2021 - October 27, 2021
i-On-Africa LiveCast: The CGD, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire Reports Date: October 27, 2021, 12:30 GMT Join ID4Africa for another LiveCast...
Identity India 2021
  October 28, 2021 - October 29, 2021
Identity India 2021 New Delhi, India October 28 – 29, 2021 The IDENTITY India conference and exhibition is an in-depth...
4th World Conference and Exhibition on Forensic Science
  November 4, 2021 - November 6, 2021
4th World Conference and Exhibition on Forensic Science Osaka, Japan November 4 – 6, 2021 Scientific Federation welcomes you to...