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High volumes emerging from long-tail fingerprint biometrics projects
Fingerprint biometrics are prominent among the top news of the week on Biometric Update between the maturing partner ecosystem for payment cards and a high-volume deal struck by BIO-key. Large-scale projects like the EU Digital Identity Wallet and Ethiopia’s MOSIP implementation also made headlines ... Read the full report here

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Biometric Update Weekend Reading
Strength in partners and a maturing biometric payment cards ecosystem
The ramp up to widespread mass market adoption of biometric payment cards will take substantially less than the time it...
 
DHS seeks biometric investments for border security; addresses privacy concerns
The Department of Homeland Security announced a call for innovators in the biometrics field to aid in its objective of...
Sierra Leone seeks supplier of biometric voter kits and system ahead of 2023 elections
The National Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone has launched a tender for the design, installation and maintenance of a biometric...
 
BioID shares encouraging research on deepfakes and biometric liveness detection with EAB
Deepfake images and videos pose a significant threat to biometric systems used for remote identity verification, and existing liveness technologies...
Digital identity is crucial for targeted sanctions
Sanctions are a diplomatic action that governments and businesses can take to defend against threats of war. Digital identity is...
 
Tender launched for European digital identity wallet pilots
The European Commission announced the impending launch of at least four large-scale pilots to test the deployment of the European...
WEF pushes data intermediaries for privacy protection; pushing for details would be better
A new think piece promotes the idea of data intermediaries that would operate between individuals and any organization that covets...
 
ACM public briefing emphasizes facial recognition risks, SIA argues for responsible policy
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) provides a ‘TechBrief’ on facial recognition meant to inform public dialogue, and warning that systems...
BIO-key to supply tens of thousands of mobile biometric scanners for NIN enrollment through bank
As financial institutions in Nigeria step up their efforts to enroll citizens in the country’s digital identity system, BIO-key has been...
 
Nigeria on pace for universal digital ID enrollment by 2026, female registrants 44 percent
The number of Nigerians who have enrolled their biometrics for the national identification number (NIN) has reached 75.36 million, as...
German court escalates ID card fingerprints requirement to European Court of Justice
A local court in Germany has referred a case involving legal action against the obligation to store fingerprint biometrics on...
 
UK biometrics commissioner warns license plate recognition could erode public trust in surveillance
Developments in license plate recognition and the technology’s spread could undermine the public’s trust in the system and surveillance more...
Academic deepfake research paper suggests liveness detection vulnerable
Research into the methods, effectiveness and limits of biometric deepfake detection has been added to the growing body of work...
 
MOSIP partnership with Ethiopia on foundational digital ID expands, along with ecosystem
The partnership between Ethiopia’s National ID Program (NIDP) and MOSIP has been extended with a memorandum of understanding to enable extensive...
  Digital identity division boost Thales Group to best ever year
  Critics of facial recognition out-lobbying well-known vendors
  Training dataset tower of babel collected for voice AI development
  Paravision tops Western facial recognition providers in NIST FRVT 1:1
  Innovatrics joins ranks of biometrics triple threats in NIST evaluations
  It can be crazymaking to group ID products; Liminal updates landscape
  Aware’s biometrics revenue surge continues, ForgeRock and Ping ARRs rise
  authID multi-party, multi-factor biometric authentication patent gets go-ahead
  FPC to pursue enterprise PC market with match-in-sensor biometrics approval
  Panasonic deploys contactless biometrics, AR to speed up digital transformation in Japan
Biometrics White Papers
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...
 
Know your payments: A guide to AML compliance in the payments industry
With the surge in digital transformation in recent years, businesses now fully rely on the ability of their customers to...
How edge computing is set to benefit the market for biometric identification technologies
The advancement of edge AI hardware and software presents a significant opportunity to improve the accuracy and security of biometric...
 
Running an effective and complete identity validation program
Fraud and risk management are big businesses, and the proof is all in the numbers. In 2020 alone, there were...
Events and Webinars
ID4Africa LiveCasts: Mobile for Identity Management and Inclusive ID4D
  March 9, 2022 - April 27, 2022
ID4Africa LiveCasts: Mobile for Identity Management and Inclusive ID4D March 9 & 23, April 13 & 27: 13:30 GMT From...
Border Management & Technologies Summit Middle East 2022
  March 14, 2022 - March 16, 2022
Border Management & Technologies Summit Middle East 2022 March 14 – 16, 2022 Dubai, UAE IBMATA are pleased to announce...
GISEC 2022
  March 21, 2022 - March 23, 2022
GISEC 2022 Dubai March 21 – 23, 2022 GISEC is the region’s most established and influential cybersecurity and infosec exhibition...
Identity Management Symposium
  April 6, 2022 - April 7, 2022
Identity Management Symposium Oxon Hill, Maryland April 6-7, 2022 DSI’s 8th Annual Identity Management Symposium will focus on the technologies...
Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience North America
  April 6, 2022 - April 8, 2022
Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience North America New Orleans, USA April 6th – 8th, 2022 Presidential Policy Directive 21 (PPD-21):...
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