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Facing Spillover Gang Violence from Sweden, Danes Look to FRT

NEC to Provide Biometric and Temperature Screening Tech for Hawaii Airports

NEC has agreed to provide facial recognition and temperature screening technology for Hawaii’s airports after signing a new contract with the state’s…

July 17, 2020

PFU to Develop Biometric Face Recognition Tech in Qualcomm’s Smart City Accelerator

The Fujitsu subsidiary PFU Limited has joined Qualcomm’s Smart Cities Accelerator Program. As a member of the accelerator, PFU will be working with Innominds…

July 14, 2020

Mobile-based Biometric Authentication Startup Raises $6.2M

TikTok Data Collection Includes Behavioral Biometrics, Location Info

The United States government is reportedly considering a ban against Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, over what some security experts say are valid fears…

July 13, 2020

Alibaba Cuts Metaverse Ambitions in Pivot to AI

Biometric Facial Recognition Specialist Hires Former Bosch Exec as New CTO

AnyVision has hired Dieter Joecker to be its new Chief Technology Officer. Joecker joins the company after a lengthy stint at Bosch Security Systems, where he…

July 13, 2020

India Once Again Halts Biometric Attendance Tracking for Government Employees

COVID-19 Resurges in This Week’s Top Biometrics Stories

COVID-19 has made a comeback in this week’s roundup of FindBiometrics’ most popular stories, appearing in every single headline of the top five. Two of the…

July 11, 2020

RAMBO Attack Exploits Radio Signals from RAM to Steal Data from Air-Gapped Networks

Credence ID Announces Next-gen Mobile ID Device Management Solution

Mobile biometrics and credential reading technology company Credence ID has announced the launch of its CredenceCONNECT Version 2.0, a web-based management…

July 10, 2020

Clearview Ends All Contracts in Canada in Response to Privacy Investigations

Clearview AI is no longer available in Canada. The controversial facial recognition provider has terminated all of its contracts in the country after drawing…

July 7, 2020

iProov Provides Liveness Detection for Caribbean Identity Start-up

SIA Argues Against Proposed Biometrics Moratorium

The Security Industry Association has made known its “strong opposition” to a newly proposed facial recognition ban in a statement. The Facial Recognition and…

June 30, 2020

Innovatrics' Palm Print Tech Can Use Smartphone, IP Cameras for IDV

New Redrock iOS App Enables Biometric Web Logins

Redrock’s PalmID Agent software is now available through the Apple App Store. The app is intended to serve as the front-end component of the PalmID Identity…

June 30, 2020

The Future of Finance: The Roundup

The financial services industry was one of the fastest to embrace digitization and biometric security, and is once again undergoing seismic change as it adapts…

June 30, 2020

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