biometrics
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From biometric binding through regulations for payments from digital wallets, the Biometric Update’s top stories of the week reflect a global trend of digital transformation for economic growth and financial inclusion. These kinds of projects are on high on the agenda of lawmakers, regulators and businesses around the world, from developing nations to the largest…
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Russian authorities say they will build the country’s first fully biometric terminal at Sochi international airport. The project will be jointly implemented by the local Aerodinamika holding, which is the managing company of Sochi airport and Mile on Air, one of Russia’s leading providers of aviation services in the field of IT and biometrics. As…
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Idemia Public Security North America has introduced software for latent fingerprint biometrics that the company says provides comprehensive capabilities for forensic examiners. The new STORM LP-X enables examiners to encode latent prints, submit searches, and compare prints against records in state databases and the Next Generation Identification (NGI) system operated by the FBI’s Criminal Justice…
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Biometrics forecasts are among the most-read stories of the week on Biometric Update. Goode Intelligence sees revenues for the biometrics behind payments to reach $11.3 billion by 2030, while Acuity sees $315 billion in total identity transactions made with biometrics by 2028. Executives from Pindrop, iProov, Reality Defender and other industry players discuss what’s ahead…
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Speculation over how incoming U.S. President Donald Trump plans to harden the country’s borders and carry out mass deportations, the place of biometrics in border control programs and the budgets those programs will have has reached a fever pitch. The Trump campaign was heavily focused on increasing border control and promises to deport illegal immigrants,…
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Interview with Marc-Julian Siewert, CEO of Veridos This month many people will be flying home or going on winter holidays. How realistic is a scenario in which travelers no longer need physical documents, but only carry all the necessary data on their smartphones? Marc-Julian Siewert: I would call that an ambitious goal. From a purely…
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New biometric technology is coming to borders in Europe and the UK, but as reflected in several of Biometric Update’s most-read articles of the week, it is a work in progress. Atos is getting blamed for EES delays, which are buying the UK time to get its borders in order. That is happening, in part,…
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Biometrics for fraud protection have become a critical piece of the online world, minting billion-dollar companies, but one of the top consultancies in the field says that by combining biometrics with other technologies, identity verification providers can tap into an emerging growth opportunity. The most-read story of the week on Biometric Update was Liminal’s forecast…
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Idemia is supplying Interpol with an upgraded version of its Multibiometric Identification System (MBIS), allowing the international law enforcement organization to use the latest algorithms for matching fingerprint, palm and face biometrics.
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Digital Identity New Zealand (DINZ) hosted a discussion led by NEC New Zealand on “Facial Recognition and CCTV Integration in Retail Security” this week, with a panel including data privacy, government and legal experts.
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Kids in Australia may find themselves scrambling to create as many social media accounts as they can before the end of the week, when the government’s social media ban for youth under 16 will come into effect after getting the go-ahead from a Senate committee.
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Tech giant NEC has developed a new technology that allows authentication with both face and iris biometrics with a single camera image. The solution allows iris recognition even with lower-resolution photos that contain a lot of noise, taken with a camera used for facial recognition.
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Face biometrics are a common theme running through the most-read articles of the week on Biometric Update, along with the impact that deepfakes and synthetic data are having on the field’s market and development. New algorithms from Innovatrics and Incode performed well in NIST testing and a new training dataset of synthetic identities seeks to…
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Biometrics options are changing and expanding as a function of industry maturity, with choice in digital ID and an emerging player in a fast-growing country market among the most-read articles of the past week on Biometric Update. Select ID’s Nick Mothershaw presents his group’s vision for a one-stop shop for digital identity providers, and Indian…
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Forensic biometrics researchers and law enforcement agencies are pioneering new identification methods that leverage hand-based biometric features. A multi-factor knuckle and nail bed verification tool and advancements in contactless hand biometrics are among the latest technologies being explored to improve the identification of suspects and missing victims.
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America’s UltraPass and the Philippine Department of Transportation (DOTr) have signed a memorandum of understanding to pilot privacy-first digital identity verification across airports in the Philippines.
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With former President Donald Trump soon to return to the White House for a second term, and Republicans in control of the Senate, their approach to regulating the use of biometrics is likely to follow a few key themes that align with broader conservative priorities, such as consumer privacy, economic competitiveness, and technology innovation.