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Trust Stamp Announces Strategic Alliance for Global Identity Consortium

CES 2017 Points to a More Connected Future

“…CES 2017 drew 3,800 exhibitors and 175,000 tech professionals from around the world.” The 2017 Consumer Electronics Show is a wrap, and it looks to have been…

January 9, 2017

ROC Upgrades SDK and Officially Rebrands

Aadhaar Expands to Rural Worker Subsidy Program

India’s national biometric ID program continues to expand in the country, with a new government directive requiring rural workers to register via Aadhaar in…

January 9, 2017

Illuma Labs Secures $9M in Series A Funding to Enhance Voice Authentication and Combat Emerging Fraud Threats

Nuance Tech Taps Into CES Buzz

There was a lot of buzz over exciting new technologies at last week’s CES 2017 event, and Nuance Communications was keen to make its voice heard as it…

January 9, 2017

Year in Review 2016: Biometrics Truly Feel Mainstream

After a year of dynamic change and massive growth for the biometrics and identity tech industries, and with CES having come to its conclusion on Sunday, we are…

January 9, 2017

HyreCar Uses Mitek Technology for New Carsharing App

News Roundup: Automotive Biometrics at CES 2017

Last week we brought in the new year with exciting biometrics news coverage straight out of CES 2017 in Las Vegas. The first major tech conference of the year,…

January 9, 2017

Fujitsu Deploys Improved Face and Palm Recognition Tech in Contactless Concept Store

Fashion Designs Aimed at Overwhelming Facial Recognition Systems

Presenting at the most recent Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, artist Adam Harvey unveiled fashion designs aimed at confusing and thwarting facial…

January 6, 2017

South Korea to Launch Naked Payments System by Mid-Summer

South Korea’s Financial Services Commission has briefed Acting President Hwang Kyo-ahn on a plan to establish a biometric payments system in the country,…

January 6, 2017

Honda Bringing Optical Voice Biometrics System to the Smart Car

Honda is working with Israel-based voice biometrics specialist VocalZoom to develop an enhanced voice interaction system for smart cars. The companies are…

January 6, 2017

Synaptics Tech Gets High-Profile Deployment in ASUS ZenFone AR

“The ZenFone AR is the first smartphone to support the Google Tango augmented reality platform and Google’s Daydream VR headset…” ASUS is sticking with…

January 6, 2017

Lawrence County, SD, Embraces PortalGuard Security

New Huawei, Xiaomi Phones Feature FPC Sensors

“Huawei… recently found itself at the cutting edge of mobile biometrics when it integrated FPC’s under-glass FPC1268 sensor into its Honor Magic device.”…

January 6, 2017

Partners

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Unico is a global identity network that forges trust between people & companies. We identify people globally so they can have safe, efficient and private digital access to services around the world. Unico is present in over 20 countries, and serves 165 million users with over 1.5 billion identity verifications every year. We are the leading global identity network. www.unico.io

Innovatrics is an EU-based provider of trusted biometric solutions for governments and enterprises. Our algorithms consistently rank among the fastest and most accurate in fingerprint, face, and iris recognition. Since 2004, we have partnered with all types of organisations to build trusted and flexible biometric identification solutions. Our solutions are used in more than 80 countries, benefiting over a billion people worldwide. www.innovatrics.com

Identity Week aims to be a significant identity industry catalyst. It’s our mission is to help accelerate the move towards a world where trusted identity solutions enable governments and commercial organisations to provide citizens, employees, customers and consumers with a multitude of opportunities to transact in a seamless, yet secure manner. All the while preventing the efforts of those intent on doing harm. identityweek.net

The Biometric Digital Identity Prism is a market landscape framework designed to help influencers and decision makers understand, innovate, and implement digital identity technologies and solutions. This innovative framework for understanding and evaluating the rapidly evolving biometric digital identity marketplace is the only market model that is truly biometric-centric based on the foundational conviction that in the age of digital transformation the only true, reliable link between humans and their digital data is biometrics. www.the-prism-project.com