Biometrics Giants and Startup Excitement: This Week’s Top Stories

This week’s roundup of FindBiometrics’ top stories includes some of the biggest names in the global biometrics industry and a fast-rising contender that is generating a lot of investor excitement.

It also features one of the most prominent third party testing programs in the world – the Department of Homeland Security’s Biometric Technology Rally, an evaluation program run by the Department’s Science and Technology Directorate. The Rally was in the news this week thanks to IDEMIA, which was celebrating the strong performance of its facial recognition technology in the program, across both maskless faces and those wearing a face mask:

IDEMIA Delivers Strong Results in DHS Biometric Technology Rally

Meanwhile, another global biometrics giant generated some reader interest with news concerning biometric border control. Thales’s biometric border kiosk solution will be used by French authorities to meet the impending identity verification requirements of the Schengen Area’s Entry/Exit System, which will go into effect in 2022. Thales’s kiosks support face and fingerprint biometrics, and feature document reading capabilities:

France Orders Biometric Border Kiosks From Thales

Online fraud was another hot topic this week, with readers showing strong interest in news about a report from TransUnion. The report detailed significant increases in fraudulent transactions targeting businesses in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as a rise in attacks against individuals, with phishing being a particularly common tactic in the latter case:

TransUnion Reports Higher Fraud Rate During COVID-19 Pandemic

On a much more positive note, this week delivered another sign of the excitement about biometric anti-fraud technology, in the form of a $25 million Series A funding round for Incode Technologies. Based on facial recognition technology, the company’s solution enables selfie-based onboarding and authentication, and iBeta-tested passive liveness detection technology that can spot the signs of attempts to trick the system with fraudulent biometric credentials:

Incode Brings in $25 Million in Series A Funding

And finally, readers showed a lot of excitement about FindBiometrics’ upcoming webinar on healthcare biometrics. This week brought the official announcement of the expert panelists for the event, including high-level executives from IDEMIA, HIMSS, TECH5, and Veratad, as well as HIMSS’s VP of Thought Advisory, Rod Piechowski. Titled “Securing Healthcare With Biometrics, Identity Verification, and Mobile ID“, the event is slated for next Tuesday:

Execs From IDEMIA, TECH5, Veratad and HIMSS to Discuss Healthcare Biometrics in Expert Webinar

Stay posted to FindBiometrics next week as we continue to bring you the latest news and interviews from the exciting world of biometrics. To see the hottest stories of the week in mobile digital identity, visit our sibling site Mobile ID World.

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March 27, 2021 – by Alex Perala

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