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Biometrics growing now in airports, soon in payments and age estimation
Near-future biometric payments, and government digital identity initiatives in the UK and Congo make up several of the most widely-read stories of the week .. read the full report here

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Biometric Update Weekend Reading
What everyone needs to know about facial recognition
The National Press Foundation recently held an event to help inform the news media about facial recognition. How fully it...
 
Success of age estimation, digital ID trials in UK lead to pressure for changes to the law
The influential British Retail Consortium (BRC) is calling for a change to the law to allow the use of age...
Digital wallets and biometrics to replace traditional payments in UK: Mastercard survey
Roughly half (51 percent) of people in the UK believe physical wallets will become less relevant as digital ways to...
 
The place of user managed and controlled digital footprint and identity in the next online era takes shape
Concerns about fraud have been not only confirmed with each new hack, identity theft report and data breach, but also...
Facial recognition to identify Brazilian capital rioters, digital forensics even more
Brazil’s Federal Police are planning to use facial recognition to identify the perpetrators of attacks against the country’s federal agencies...
 
Forensic applications of next-gen biometrics boosted by acquisition, police planning
Next-generation biometrics for forensic analysis by law enforcement are big business, and expected to grow, as evidenced by Qiagen’s acquisition...
Biometrics continue to enhance airport security, traveler experience
Several airlines and airports around the world are involved new biometrics projects designed to increase security and create contactless traveler...
 
ID document validation and selfie biometrics providers invited to join DHS tech demo
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science & Technology Directorate is hosting a challenge for remote ID validation technologies to...
Philippines: almost 15M SIM cards registered in first few days, calls to link to PhilID
More than 14 million SIM cards were linked to users’ ID in the opening days of the campaign, according to...
 
Pushback against SIM registration in Philippines as India adds facial recognition checks
As SIM-identity registration continues worldwide, privacy and fraud risks come to the fore. Indians are subject to an unclear privacy...
Sierra Leone signs up for national digital ID pilot built with MOSIP
Sierra Leone has struck a deal with MOSIP to build and pilot a national digital ID system with open source...
 
Congo to hire consultants for legal frameworks of digitized identity, civil register
The Republic of the Congo is on the hunt for consultants to review the country’s legal and regulatory framework for...
  TrustID adds voice to OIX to help shape UK trust framework
  Isorg receives FBI certification for FAP30 OPD biometric sensor
  SecureAuth unveils 7 patents for behavioral biometrics, ID proofing
  BioID Technologies palm biometrics scanner certified to FBI specification
  Totm issues shares to complete $46M International Biometrics acquisition
  Jumio downsizes as identity verification providers respond to economic climate
  Fujitsu biometric self enrolment kiosks piloted for presentation attack detection
  Airside’s mobile ID solution gets Kantara certification for advanced data protection
  Anonybit adds decentralized biometric authentication to Ping Identity partner program
  Idemia part of Potential Consortium awarded large-scale pilots for EU Digital Identity Wallet
Biometrics White Papers
Multispectral imaging (MSI) fingerprint technology
Organizations increasingly rely on digital technologies to validate identities for secure interactions and services such as banking transactions, medication dispensing,...
 
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...
Improving the ATM experience with biometrics multi-factor authentication
ATMs in the U.S. and other parts of the world have generally validated the identity of bank customers with something...
 
On-demand webinar – Human or machine: AI proves best at spotting biometric attacks
With large organizations processing millions of face checks monthly, one advantage of AI liveness detection is the reduced burden on...
Events and Webinars
Ethics, biometrics and AI: the good, the bad and the ugly – Why European Parliament’s concerns are probably disproportionate
  January 31, 2023
Aviation Festival Asia 2023
  February 28, 2023 - March 1, 2023
World Police Summit
  March 7, 2023 - March 9, 2023
7th Edition Connected Banking Summit East Africa
  March 7, 2023
SECON 2023
  March 29, 2023 - March 31, 2023
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