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US government leans into airport biometrics, providers envision automation options
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Academics, Oosto propose facial recognition, AI ethics guidance in new forum
A group of artificial intelligence ethicists and stakeholders took a step towards establishing a forum to advance AI guidelines and...
 
Pakistan launches digital wallet for financial inclusion on back of biometric SIM registry
Pakistan’s government has unveiled a plan to bring 50 million people into the financial system by leveraging the country’s biometric...
Biometric mass surveillance pitched in alleged Huawei company materials
Huawei’s involvement in tracking Chinese citizens has come under renewed scrutiny regarding the use of biometric identification systems. The Washington...
 
Committee urges UK gov to halt voter ID bill as requirement could reduce turnout
The Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC), a group of cross-party MPs, has urged the government to stop...
Nigerian telco 9Mobile to enroll biometrics of 10M rural residents for national ID
Nigeria’s federal government has appointed 9Mobile to register at least 10 million people living in rural areas for national identity...
 
MIT researchers introduce approach to biometrics, ML on low-resource devices
Two research groups at MIT have discovered a way of reducing memory usage of machine learning algorithms on edge devices that use...
SentryCard integrates with HID Global for employee access control
Sentry Enterprises and HID Global have partnered to combine their leading employee biometrics and physical and logical access control systems. The...
 
Hundreds of millions worldwide become eligible for biometric passports
Zimbabwe and Pakistan launch biometric passports while nations push for better service and support for their citizens overseas. Malawi terminates...
US government leans into airport biometrics, providers envision automation options
An executive order signed this week by U.S. President Joe Biden could boost funding for the Transportation Security Administration’s biometric...
 
Fourthline, INTERPOL and AML collaborators identify 18K money mules
A crackdown on money laundering in Europe by a Europol-coordinated group and utilizing Fourthline’s digital identity and fraud prevention technologies...
OpenBCI raise funds to further biometric mixed reality platform development
Neurotech firm OpenBCI has announced a new investment of an undisclosed amount, attracting Bitkraft Ventures, re.Mind, and NaHCO3 to back...
 
Smart Engines provides identity document scanning to fintech
For many people around the world, COVID-19 health passes and remote banking have become a part of life, but they...
SuperCom secures new biometric monitoring contracts in Idaho, Texas
SuperCom has won two new contracts for the deployment of its biometric offender monitoring solution, to a juvenile probation office...
 
Organizations plan MFA, biometrics deployments to address lagging approaches
Many organizations have yet to deploy highly-secure multi-factor authentication, such as with biometrics, that even their own IT departments consider...
  Idemia’s forensic biometrics deal with Australia worth double previous estimates
  Application of state biometric data privacy laws for companies, feds debated
  Liberia continues push to introduce biometrics in next general elections
  Philippines digital ID scheme to get boost with $600M World Bank loan
  Cloud software for Kronos biometric time and attendance systems knocked out by attack
  New Everguard software suite brings facial recognition, mask detection to industrial safety
Events and Webinars
LEAP | Global Tech Event In Saudi Arabia
  February 1, 2022 - February 3, 2022
LEAP | Global Tech Event In Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia February 1-3, 2022 The largest tech event in history just...
Idemia’s Biometric Breakfast
  February 2, 2022 - February 2, 2022
Idemia’s Biometric Breakfast February 2, 2022 Vienna, Austria IDEMIA Biometric Devices’ next “Biometric breakfast” session will take place in Vienna,...
Border Security Conference
  February 7, 2022 - February 8, 2022
Border Security Conference February 7 – 8, 2021 London, UK With COVID-19 spreading across the globe, the security and integrity...
Border Management & Technologies Summit Asia
  March 15, 2022 - March 17, 2022
Border Management & Technologies Summit Asia Singapore March 15-17, 2022 The Border Management & Technologies Summit Asia conference and exhibition...
Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience Europe
  March 15, 2022 - March 17, 2022
Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience Europe Bucharest, Romania March 15-17, 2022 Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience Europe brings together leading...
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