Breach at Japanese Email Vendor Exposes Addresses From My Number Card Booking Systems
A breach at Japanese email delivery company Arara has exposed email addresses that residents entered when booking pickup of their My Number Card, Japan’s…
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Cyberlinks and Hancom Group’s RAUMSOFT Form Japan Joint Venture for AI Face Verification
Japan’s Cyberlinks and South Korean software company RAUMSOFT have set up a joint venture, Raum Japan, to sell identity verification services built on AI face…
DXYZ Brings FreeiD Pay Face Payment to Sumitomo Mitsui Card’s Stera Terminals in Beta
DXYZ, a Migalo Holdings group company, will offer a beta version of its FreeiD Pay face payment service on Sumitomo Mitsui Card’s stera market app marketplace…
Gunma Bank Adds Cardless Face-Authenticated Transactions at Seven Bank ATMs
Gunma Bank customers can now deposit and withdraw cash at Seven Bank ATMs across Japan without a cash card, using face authentication instead. The regional…
PayPay to Replace Photo-Based eKYC With Chip Reading
PayPay will stop accepting identity-verification applications that require users to photograph their documents, and will instead require methods that read the…
KDDI Launches SIM-Based Number Verification on Google Firebase
Japanese carrier KDDI has begun commercial service of Number Verification v2 (NVv2), an API that verifies a user’s phone number from SIM and carrier records…
DDS Develops EVEEDGE Facial Authentication for i-PRO Cameras
DDS has developed EVEEDGE, facial authentication software that runs inside compatible i-PRO AI network cameras and can trigger equipment on the same local…
JR Kyushu to Test NEC Face Recognition Ticket Gates at Hakata Station
Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu) will test face-recognition ticket gates at Hakata Station in Fukuoka from November, using NEC face recognition technology as…
Kyoto Bank Drops Selfie Checks for Chip-Based ID as Japanese Banks Speed Up eKYC Shift
Kyoto Bank will stop accepting photographed ID documents and face matching for new accounts opened through its mobile app, and will instead require customers…
Liquid Supplies Chip-and-Face Verification to NTT Docomo Shops
Liquid is supplying chip-and-face identity verification to NTT Docomo shops and authorized retailers across Japan. The gradually deployed service reads…