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Biometrics’ increasing power and accuracy on full display across several sectors
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Biometric Update Weekend Reading
A tale of two MOSIP implementations: Philippines and Morocco
The Philippines and Morocco each decided to build digital identity systems on top of the Modular Open Source Identity Platform...
 
World ID – Changing the world or sci-fi dystopia?
By Alan Goode, CEO and Chief Analyst at Goode Intelligence Would you let a shiny metal orb scan your iris...
Biometric authentication accuracy bar rises, assurance levels evolve in NIST guidance
Biometrics performance requirements have been upgraded and identity assurance levels revised in the latest draft update to the U.S. National...
 
NXP Semiconductors explores chip-based biometric authentication with India’s UIDAI
In an interview with Times of India, Hitesh Garg, VP and country manager of NXP Semiconductors India, disclosed that NXP...
Facewatch caught in more controversy after closed-door meeting with UK Home Office
Biometric security company Facewatch, which has been facing backlash for deploying facial recognition surveillance in retail stores across the UK,...
 
Clear spars over TSA report after security incident follows enrollment error
Biometric security has debuted in a Korean airport and there are plans to install it in Kazakhstan. But a private-industry...
Battle over age verification heats up in increasingly censorious US
Depending on the point of view, online life in the United States is either marching toward safety for children or...
 
Bar for UK crimes prosecuted with live facial recognition could get much lower
Pledges by the UK government that its use of biometric data in law enforcement would be limited to, for example,...
Kenya bans Worldcoin activities as citizens trade biometrics for tokens
Worldcoin, which says it wants to build a “more human internet” with its World ID credential and globular iris scanning...
 
An insider’s recap of the Legal Identity, Biometrics & Border Management Conference 2023
By Arif Mamedov, President and CEO at Regula Forensics, Inc. From July 19 to July 21, the Legal Identity, Biometrics...
Cyberattack on Kenya’s digital infrastructure continues
Kenya’s eCitizen portal, used by the public to access over 5,000 services, has been under a massive attack that has...
 
4 in 10 businesses have already seen deepfakes, injection attacks
Deepfakes have suddenly become much easier to create with the launch of generative AI based on large-language models. Over 40...
Rwanda seeks contractor to digitize civil registration archiving system
Rwanda has launched a call to tender for the digitization of the country’s civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) archiving...
 
Details of Guyana’s biometric digital ID cards, Veridos $35.4M contract amount revealed
Guyana’s government is advancing legislation to back a biometric national digital ID card initiative, which spells out how the system...
GAIN claims early successes, sets next steps towards digital ID interoperability
Technical and policy standards for digital identity are emerging and evolving, boosting the prospects for interoperable digital IDs, and correspondingly...
 
Philippines ID system expands across government agencies and social benefit programs
The Philippines Identification System (PhilSys), the country’s digital identity scheme, is making new strides in increasing the availability of its...
  BioID liveness detection to be used in Bavarian social robot study
  Vendor claims 3-year ROI on retail facial recognition deployment
  Yoti achieves accessibility standard for digital identity verification
  Prembly acquires Tunnel to expand selfie biometric ID verification
  Persona biometrics for random spot checks in UK scooter-service trial
  Vsblty pushes live facial recognition capability of retail analytics portfolio
  Eyecool fingerprint biometrics module certified to FBI PIV and FAP20 specs
  Paravision improves facial recognition accuracy by 30% with Gen 6 suite launch
  BioWave software from Arana Security integrated with Suprema biometric terminal
  Smart Engines upgrades document scanning for high accuracy in digital data formats
Biometrics White Papers
The evolution of identity in a digital-first world
With continually changing landscapes and macroeconomic uncertainty, digital products and the team that manage them remain determined in their contributions...
 
Ensuring trustworthy digital identities
In today’s interconnected world, trust plays a crucial role in online transactions and relationships that rely on it. Establishing trust...
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,...
 
ISO PAD and FIDO testing comparison
Two of the most popular testing services that iBeta offers are ISO 30107 compliance, and FIDO Biometrics Component Certification. To...
Events and Webinars
Cyber DSA 2023
  August 15, 2023 - August 17, 2023
3rd Digital Identity & Authentication Summit MENA 2023
  September 12, 2023 - September 13, 2023
SmartTech Asia 2023
  September 13, 2023 - September 15, 2023
Mobility Payments Asia Pacific 2023
  September 13, 2023 - September 14, 2023
BIOSIG 2023 – 22nd international conference of the biometrics special interest group
  September 20, 2023 - September 22, 2023
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