UN Launches Best Practices Guide for Biometrics in Counter-Terrorism
“It’s meant to help UN members cooperate with each other and police organizations like Interpol, which has been calling for the increased sharing of biometric…
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Veridium Brings in $16.5M in Series B Funding Round
“Organizations continue to see the benefits of biometric authentication, including simplifying and securing the login process and identifying with precision…
Canadian Authorities Prepare for Biometric Border Screening Expansion
Canadian immigration authorities are preparing for an administrative challenge as the country expands its biometric screening program, announcing that they…
OneSpan-Nok Nok Partnership to Target Financial Services
“The partnership will also help OneSpan to launch software, SDK, and server solutions supporting the new FIDO2 authentication standard, which OneSpan says it…
BIO-key to Launch New Biometric Locks at Design Tokyo Expo
BIO-key is going to participate in next week’s Design Tokyo expo, and will take the opportunity to show off two new product offerings. The event is aimed at…
TrulySecure is Used For Authentication in Over Two Dozen Banking Apps
“Operating through a standard mobile device, TrulySecure combines facial and voice recognition to identify the end user. It’s now being used in mobile apps…
Iris Scanning POS Uses FPC Tech
A major deployment of Fingerprint Cards‘ iris scanning technology has arrived, in the form of a biometric point of sale terminal in India. Dubbed “Apnapay”,…
Microsoft Reduces Biometric Bias (But Won’t Say How Much)
Microsoft’s face scanning technology is now better able to determine the genders of subjects with darker skin tones, the company has announced. In a post on…
IBM Developing Huge Public Dataset to Help Eliminate Bias from Facial Recognition
“IBM is going to release a dataset of 36,000 facial images that will be equally distributed across a range of ethnicities, genders, and ages.” As the…
NEXT Biometrics Appoints APAC Sales Exec
“Yu’s appointment is the latest organizational change undertaken by NEXT Biometrics as part of an effort to scale up its operations. “ NEXT Biometrics now has…