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Biometric Update Weekend Reading
Expect digital ID to balloon in users and revenue by 2026: Juniper Research
Juniper Research says the number of digital ID users and revenue for vendors will grow significantly from 2021 and 2022 to...
 
Brazil’s unico plans selfie biometrics expansion in Latin America after raising $100M
São Paulo, Brazil-based unico has raised $100 million in a Series D funding round and plans to expand into other...
Imprivata acquires SecureLink with PE investment to address enterprise digital identity gaps
Imprivata is bringing access management and security firm SecureLink into its healthcare-focused portfolio, supported by an investment from private equity...
 
Nymi acquired by Innominds to integrate continuous workplace biometrics
Innominds, a San Jose, California-based full-cycle product engineering services company acquired biometric device firm Nymi to push its goal for digital...
Facial recognition planned for UK schools without Biometrics Commissioner consultation
UK Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner Fraser Sampson says he was not consulted over plans drafted by the Department for...
 
New guidance on live facial recognition use by British police sparks debate
The College of Policing has published guidance on the overt use of live facial recognition to find people of interest...
UK government opens bid for mobile fingerprint biometric enrollment devices
The British government published a request for tender seeking £450,000 (approximately $588,000) worth of mobile biometric enrollment devices to decrease...
 
Philippines launches authentication platform for national ID
The Philippines opened a web-based offline authentication platform for its national digital ID named PhilSys Check, allowing users to perform...
Australia considers following African countries in biometric SIM registration to curb crime
The Morrison Government in Australia has introduced new regulations describing biometrics and multifactor authentication (MFA) technologies aimed to tackle fraud...
 
Ukraine and Estonia show government digital ID leadership
Ukraine is making changes to its government-run digital ID app to support people dealing with the chaos in the war-torn...
Know your algorithm: Future Identity report highlights importance of biometrics fundamentals
Future Identity has released its latest digital report focusing on “the high cost of cheap biometrics,” which argues that choosing...
 
Implanted digital ID will push digital payment revenue higher
An analyst firm this week predicted global digital payment revenue of $204.1 billion by 2028. The same day, a digital-payments...
GSA finds ‘bias’ in facial recognition errors, plans tests but no deployment
Tests conducted by America’s General Services Administration have shown higher false rejection rates in face biometric systems for African Americans...
 
US oversight committee wants answers on ID.me biometric accuracy, contracts and more
The leaders of the U.S. House Oversight Committee have penned a lengthy letter to ID.me, The Washington Post reports, to inquire...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Biometrics White Papers
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...
Moving beyond CCTV’s limited out-of-the-box video analytics
Modern organizations understand that their network of CCTV cameras and the videos that these cameras record are the foundation to...
 
ID document verification impact report
In this new report, Aite-Novarica Group has rated Socure the #1 solution and market leader, with its Predictive DocV solution...
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 23, April 13 & 27: 13:30 GMT From the producers...
TDK Ventures presents DX Week 2022
  April 18, 2022 - April 21, 2022
TDK Ventures presents DX Week 2022 Virtual Event April 18-21, 2022 We live in a connected world. Sometimes, however, we...
Patch-based finger vein recognition using an auto encoder
  April 19, 2022 - April 19, 2022
Patch-based finger vein recognition using an auto encoder EAB virtual lunch talk April 19, 2022 at 12:30-1:30pm CEST The European...
SECON 2022
  April 20, 2022 - April 22, 2022
SECON 2022KINTEX, KoreaApril 20 – 22, 2022SECON is the biggest professional B2B security event as well as a comprehensive security...
Future Identity Finance
  April 26, 2022 - April 26, 2022
Future Identity Finance London, UK April 26th, 2022 The Future Identity festival was an overwhelming success back in November. Future...