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Women in Identity co-founder Emma Lindley urges biometrics industry to slow down and fix things
The lack of diversity in the industry may be fueling differences in performance between different demographics, and therefore accusations of bias against identity technology, which have dogged facial recognition in particular ... Read the whole story here.

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Women in Identity co-founder Emma Lindley urges biometrics industry to slow down and fix things
When Women in Identity co-founder Emma Lindley climbed Mt. Toubkal, the tallest mountain in North Africa, raising awareness about diversity...
 
North America holds 33 percent of automated fingerprint identification systems market
The automated fingerprint identification systems (AFIS) market is forecast to register approximately $38 billion by 2027, triggered by a global...
ZKTeco plans biometrics research center and Trulioo adds Nigeria and Ghana to boost development goals
ZKTeco is planning to establish a regional hub for its biometrics business in Sub-Saharan Africa, along with a research and...
 
Members of Scottish Parliament demand more authority, power for Biometrics Commissioner
Members of Scottish Parliament are pushing for the Scottish biometrics commissioner to be given more authority and responsibilities than those...
Avigilon launches updated enterprise facial biometric software with ‘appearance alerts’
Avigilon has launched ‘appearance alerts’ to its artificial intelligence-powered facial recognition video management software to help commercial organizations identify people...
 
Facial recognition payment systems rolled out in Denmark, growing rapidly in China
Nets has rolled out biometric facial recognition payment trials for 1,000 people in Copenhagen to see how people react to...
New deployments, products, and conference for biometrics in casinos
Casino group Novomatic has launched the Casino FlaminGo Skopje with fingerprint access control from its in-house developed Novomatic Biometric System...
 
HID and Jumio target South East Asia as two banks launch biometric services
HID Global has introduced its iClass SE RB25F fingerprint solution in the Philippines, according to a Philippines News Agency report,...
Aluf Holdings announces Letters of Intent to acquire two biometrics businesses for over $30M combined
A pair of mystery biometrics companies are being targeted by Aluf Holdings for acquisition. The company announced the execution of...
 
China lead in global facial recognition surveillance market examined as rights concerns mount
Biometric facial recognition companies from China are gaining an advantage from having the largest home market and being willing to...
In 2019 users still write down passwords, weak IAM practices generate enterprise security risk
In the past three months, 78 percent of people reset passwords because they forgot them, despite 35 percent writing them...
 
The week in Africa biometrics and digital ID: SDG progress, returning ghost workers and a pensioner deadline
A theme emerging this week is a pan-African perspective for digital ID schemes across the continent. Progress is being made...
 
 
 
 
 
 
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