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Biometric Update Weekend Reading

UK govt urged to step up role in digital ID as public good at Westminster eForum

Digital identity is a public good which requires government support and regulation while tech and service providers are going to...

EAB seminar plays down EU parliament’s biometrics ethics concerns

The European Union’s ethical concerns connected with deploying artificial intelligence (AI) and biometrics applications across its territory may be excessive....

US talks the talk with digital ID. Maybe officials walk to success

The United States trails many nations when it comes to digital identity rules, projects and completions, but federal and state...

Rapid digital identity certifications in UK indicate pent-up demand: DCMS

A new accreditation system for digital identity products is leading to the rapid approval of new products, indicating high demand....

Focus on bank’s role in digital wallets gets sharper

It is the second month of 2023, and seemingly everyone wants in on what could be the awakening of banks...

Transparency can drive digital ID equity, policy forum panelists say

An event last week on ‘Identity, Authentication and the Road Ahead’ held by the Better Identity Coalition, the FIDO Alliance...

Exponential hacking of biometric authentication reveals some defenses already overwhelmed

“Motion-based is completely broken,” says Andrew Bud, founder and CEO, iProov, of biometric identity authentication where users are asked to...

Patent awarded to ID R&D for securing voice interactions with biometrics and liveness

ID R&D has been granted a patent for a technology bringing continuous, multi-modal biometric authentication to chatbots and virtual assistants...

Is Kenya’s ‘big Huduma Namba thing’ being adapted to digital-only ID or dropped for a UPI?

“It is not the work of government to issue IDs; it is the work of government to identify Kenyans,” said...

Sierra Leone launches biometric ID card to upgrade CRVS, Kenya’s UPI goes birth-to-death

The details of Kenya’s plans for its Unique Personal Identifier continue to emerge, with the government planning to begin issuing...

Free-to-use civil registration system OpenCRVS adds features, configuration

The open-source, free-to-use civil registration and vital statistics platform OpenCRVS has introduced substantial developments in its latest version, 1.2. New...

World Bank is helping the displaced in Mozambique get IDs, birth certificates

There has been respite for thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Mozambique as a civil registration and ID card...

Worldcoin shares details of open-source, iris biometrics-scanning ‘Orb’

Cryptocurrency company Worldcoin has published a new blog post describing the “Orb,” the company’s iris biometric imaging device. “After three...

Porn back as political hurdle for age verification in UK, Australia takes next step

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been prompted by his Conservative Party members to increase the strictness of age security...

Startup wants every camera to be a biometric authenticator

Identomat passes level 2 biometric PAD compliance test from iBeta

New executives appointed by IDnow, Mitek, Prove, Au10tix announces layoffs

Biometric liveness detection from OCR Labs shows no bias in BixeLab testing

Yoti integrates selfie verification checks into the electronic signature process

Oz Forensics pitches liveness detection to the channel with reseller program launch

FaceTec triples scope and payout in Spoof Bounty to thwart biometric liveness attacks

Rank One biometric algorithms integrated with MOSIP foundational digital ID platform

Tech5 and uqudo develop biometric remote voter verification system for Oman election

Cognitec upgrades biometric capture hardware with PAD and on-device facial recognition

Biometrics White Papers

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...

The ultimate retail experience starts with facial recognition

As digital transformation sweeps across our society, bringing together the physical and virtual worlds, the retail space is changing in...

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 – 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...

Events and Webinars

ID4Africa LiveCast – Civil registration in Africa: Scaling for impact

February 8, 2023

Can we exploit human visual attention to improve face recognition models?

February 14, 2023

Securing identity in a world shared with virtual humans

February 15, 2023

Aviation Festival Asia 2023

February 28, 2023 - March 1, 2023

World Police Summit

March 7, 2023 - March 9, 2023

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