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Face biometrics accuracy identifying mask wearers improves in latest NIST FRVT report
Facial recognition accuracy remains significantly lower when subjects’ faces are covered, but error rates have dropped by around a quarter on average since developers began specifically training their algorithms to meet the challenge ... Read the full report here.

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Market ready for biometric payment cards, but enrollment challenges remain: APSCA panelists
The technology for biometric payment cards is nearly ready, but the ecosystem is still maturing, and how enrollment will work...
 
Face biometrics accuracy identifying mask wearers improves in latest NIST FRVT report
Facial recognition accuracy remains significantly lower when subjects’ faces are covered, but error rates have dropped by around a quarter...
Investors pile on $3M more for Signzy biometric video KYC and platform expansion
Signzy has raised an additional $3 million from Vertex Ventures as part of its recently-announced fundraising round, to reach a...
 
Biden administration expected to prioritize digital ID and tighten fintech regulations
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will be coming into office amid a rapidly changing outlook for fintech, digital identity, and AI,...
Massachusetts partially bans police facial recognition use in latest reform bill
Massachusetts state lawmakers have passed a new statewide police reform bill banning facial recognition technology for police departments and public...
 
Biometric authentication adoption slowed in UK by privacy and UX concerns, Nomidio suggests
A new report commissioned by passwordless solutions firm Nomidio revealed a trend of distrust towards biometric authentication in the UK...
How Special Olympics Nigeria will bring digital identity to the people
“Whenever we’re organizing an international competition, we find ourselves having to start from the very beginning, to get them their...
 
NY school district allegedly misled about face biometrics system’s racial bias
A facial recognition system purchased by New York’s Lockport School District has greater disparities in performance between demographics than claimed...
Suprema’s touchless biometrics in demand across North America
Suprema’s recent growth efforts across North America have resulted in new partnerships with major wholesale distributors, system integration partners and resellers,...
 
Acuant partners with Traxx on biometric authentication for secure transactions
Identity verification solutions provider Acuant has partnered with Traxx Payments to develop a digital Know Your Customer (KYC) process called...
Paravision brings face biometrics to the network edge with Ambarella CVflow platform support
Paravision has launched an AI toolset to provide full support for Amberella’s CVflow AI vision processing architecture, enabling its face biometrics...
 
EVA Air joins Biometric Exit, launches facial recognition service at San Francisco Airport
Taiwanese airline EVA Air has launched a facial recognition boarding service at San Francisco Airport, joining U.S. Customs and Border...
SimpleMachines enters AI chip race with a design that runs all your models at the same time
Simple Machines Inc. (SMI) is in the early stages of producing a processor that speeds AI operations such as speech...
 
AI cannot help humanity if it cannot help an individual: UK report
Whatever the ultimate impact may be of a report by UK experts in algorithmic bias, the document already has succeeded...
  Mastercard, Thales and Idemia promote biometric payment cards’ easy enrollment
  Biometrics just the start for China’s Xiongan as JD rolls out smart city operating system
  Biometric tracking for parolees and prisoners grows, Supercom and Tyler Tech win contracts
  Yoti’s AI-powered age estimation software earns independent certification
  New ID document scanning technologies address security, privacy concerns
  Brazil to trial biometric pension benefits app with 10,000 retired civil servants
Events and Webinars
Next-Generation Cards 2020 Virtual Global Summit & Expo
  December 1, 2020 - December 3, 2020
Next-Generation Cards 2020 Virtual Global Summit & Expo Online December 1-3, 2020 APSCA will hold Next-Generation Cards 2020, a Virtual...
NEC Visionary Week
  December 1, 2020 - December 4, 2020
NEC Visionary Week Online December 1-4, 2020 Themed “Co-creation for tomorrow, designing the future,” this NEC flagship event will feature...
3rd Annual E-payments & Online Banking Summit
  December 2, 2020 - December 3, 2020
3rd Annual E-payments & Online Banking Summit Online December 2-3, 2020 Under the patronage of the Central Bank of Bahrain,...
ID4Africa Livecast – The Digital Public Goods Initiatives as Pathways to Identity Development: Part I
  December 3, 2020 - December 3, 2020
ID4Africa Livecast – The Digital Public Goods Initiatives as Pathways to Identity Development: Part I Online December 3, 2020, 13:30...
GISEC (Gulf Information Security Expo & Conference)
  December 6, 2020 - December 10, 2020
GISEC (Gulf Information Security Expo & Conference) Dubai December 6 – 10, 2020 GISEC is not just one of the...
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