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US blacklists Tiandy Technologies as Intel washes its hands
Tiandy joins Dahua and Hikvision on the U.S. Commerce Department blacklist for allowing the selling of U.S.-made technology to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as well as being implicated in human rights violations in China .. read the full story here

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China’s political biometric ID surveillance grows in scope and tech
A surveillance systems company unfamiliar outside its native China is coming into view as Beijing pushes biometrics recognition into more...
 
Early ‘register anywhere’ wins might mean more biometric centers in Philippines
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) in the Philippines is considering additional biometrics capture sites for its register anywhere project (RAP)....
Make digital ID systems flexible with open source and standards: Tony Blair Institute
Governments must be able to upgrade and re-adapt their legacy ID infrastructure to allow them the flexibility to choose the...
 
Dermalog beats Semlex, others to $48M biometric passport deal in DRC
German biometrics firm Dermalog has won a contract worth US$48 million to produce biometric passports in the Democratic Republic of...
Innovatrics launches digital identity verification API as consumer understanding improves
Innovatrics has launched a cloud API to make its remote digital identity verification with selfie biometrics and liveness detection more...
 
Fingerprint Cards unveils new biometric sensor model for secure access control
Biometric sensor-maker Fingerprint Cards AB says it has added the FPC1523 authentication touch sensor to its growing list of fingerprint...
Idemia, Incode and SITA unveil international market, operations expansions
Idemia has announced the opening of a new service center in Japan which will enable the identity technology provider create...
 
Thales Digital ID Wallet certified to ISO mobile driver’s license standard by UL
Thales has been certified for meeting the ISO/IEC secure mobile driver’s licenses standard by UL Solutions as it continues expanding...
ValidSoft launches new voice biometrics solution, receives 2 awards
UK-based voice biometrics provider ValidSoft has released a new digit-based voice authentication solution to deliver trusted identity assurance in enterprise...
 
Canada awards Zighra digital ID authentication contract for national defense
The Canadian government has awarded Zighra a new contract to test a digital ID system developed by the country’s Department...
BioConnect partners with ISG on biometric authentication
Toronto-based company BioConnect announced joining the Identification Systems Group (ISG) to bring its biometric solutions into a broader ecosystem. “We...
 
Authentication partnership expands Hypr’s passwordless reach
Decentralized authentication expert Hypr and orchestration company Strata Identity have joined forces to create infrastructure enabling the addition of phishing-resistant...
NEC, Suprema each expand ops teams, Beyond Identity and Veridas hire tech talent
Several companies in the biometric space have recently completed new hires and/or expanded their teams. The first is NEC Corporation...
 
Biometric identity documents going digital, national, and eventually maybe away
Biometric identity documents of various types, digital and physical, are prominent among the most-read stories of the week on Biometric...
  Next digital ID in US: Maryland tests Android app
  NIST updates Digital Identity Guidelines with biometrics requirements, alternatives
  Serbian rights group warns of implications in biometric surveillance act
  UK police about to accelerate digital fingerprint matching with hopes to prevent crime
  G+D takes top stake in Netcetera, brings in new CEO
  Mastercard Africa digital ID scheme to benefit from $50M of DFC funding to its partners
Biometrics White Papers
Presentation attack detection: Measuring performance of APCER and BPCER
APCER and BPCER are acronyms for error rates used to quantify the performance of presentation attack detection (PAD) systems. This...
 
Single-frame facial liveness detection: How it works to reduce user friction and abandonment
The ability to ascertain facial liveness from a single-image frame enables high-performance presentation attack detection without adding friction to the...
Mitigating demographic bias in facial presentation attack detection
Bias in AI-powered biometric algorithms can lead to unfair treatment of individuals in certain demographic groups based on their gender,...
 
On-demand webinar – Demographic Bias in Facial Liveness Detection: Impact, Measurement, and Mitigation
AI-powered facial liveness detection algorithms can introduce bias the same way matching algorithms can, causing mobile banking services to be...
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