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New digital ID entrants and growth opportunities appear on OWI’s 2021 Identity Landscape
OWI introduced its 2021 Identity Landscape in a recent online event featuring the organization’s CEO Travis Jarae and Managing Director Cameron D’Ambrosi, who broke down their key findings .. Read the full report here.

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New digital ID entrants and growth opportunities appear on OWI’s 2021 Identity Landscape
The digital ID ecosystem has been undergoing rapid change over the past year, which has brought new players into the...
 
Hikvision to deploy 1,900 cameras with face biometrics for $33M smart city contract
Hikvision has won a contract worth an estimated $33 million to install roughly 1,900 cameras with face biometrics as part...
Amazon expands contactless in-store palm biometrics, AWS develops voice authentication
Customers will soon be able to check into all Seattle Amazon Go stores using only their palm scan. Amazon is...
 
ImageWare rebrands and upgrades flagship multi-biometric access control solution
ImageWare is re-releasing its flagship multimodal biometric authentication solution with updates to enable seamless integration of multifactor authentication (MFA) into existing...
Guide for ethical, legal use of facial recognition published by BSIA
A 16-page document detailing parameters for the ethical and legal use of automated facial recognition (AFR) by companies has been...
 
New biometrics sales leaders appointed by Princeton Identity and Jumio
Princeton Identity has expanded its executive team with the appointment of Luis E. Tapia as its new Director of Business Development...
The internet’s small-mindedness makes AI brutish as well
If bias cannot be wrung from the process of training biometrics and other AI algorithms, maybe unsupervised algorithms can learn...
 
Nigeria’s move to link digital identity numbers to SIM cards sparks lawsuit
The controversy surrounding the decision by Nigeria’s federal government to have citizens link their biometrics-backed digital IDs to their SIM...
Mitek hedges against biometrics investment market disruption with $125M private offering
Mitek is planning to raise at least $125 million through a private offering of Convertible Senior Notes to qualified institutional investors...
 
Clearview AI files to re-argue remand in biometric data privacy case to avoid state court
A motion filed by Clearview AI with the Seventh Circuit requests the court rehear its argument against the previously-rendered decision to...
Fingerprint Cards exec highlights benefits of biometric access cards
The Global Marketing Manager of Fingerprint Cards Maria Pihlström was recently interviewed by Computing Security, discussing the benefits of biometric...
 
Spotify patent hints at speech recognition for music recommendations
Digital music service Spotify has been granted a patent titled “Identification of Taste Attributes From an Audio Signal” for the...
Greek police to introduce mobile biometrics during patrols
Greece is due to put in place a system known as ‘Smart Policing,’ which will see individuals undergo biometric scans...
 
iProov, Onfido, Daon stake out positions as biometrics-backed immunity passports advance
Biometrics providers including iProov, Onfido and Daon are positioning themselves to serve the requirements of digital health credentials for the...
  Biometric mobile payments to reach $3T by 2025 on 650 percent growth, Juniper forecasts
  Will Open APIs break digital ID vendor lock-in, usher in new opportunity? ID4Africa community debates
  Soft market conditions hit biometrics revenues but fundraising, deals foreshadow expected bounce
  Consumers’ contrasting opinions towards biometric adoption shown by Entrust report
  Cameroon, Rwanda see progress in biometric passport projects implementation
  Feds warn of strings attached to a Chinese DNA firm’s hunt for COVID partners in U.S.
Events and Webinars
Border Security Conference
  February 10, 2021 - February 11, 2021
Border Security Conference Online February 10 – 11, 2021 With COVID-19 spreading across the globe, the security and integrity of...
ID4Africa Livecast – Spotlight on the identity ecosystem of Mauritius
  February 11, 2021 - February 11, 2021
ID4Africa Livecast – Spotlight on the identity ecosystem of Mauritius Online February 11, 2021, Time: 13:30 – 15:30 GMT Following...
Demographic fairness in biometric systems
  March 9, 2021 - March 30, 2021
Demographic fairness in biometric systems EAB Online Seminar March 9 to March 30, 2021 The European Association for Biometrics (EAB)...
IFINTEC Finance Technologies Conference and Exhibition
  March 9, 2021 - March 10, 2021
IFINTEC Finance Technologies Conference and Exhibition Istanbul, Turkey March 9 – 10, 2021 IFINTEC Finance Technologies Conference and Exhibition will...
2nd Annual Facial Recognition Summit
  April 7, 2021 - April 8, 2021
2nd Annual Facial Recognition Summit Goodwood Park Hotel, Singapore April 7 – 8, 2021 Facial recognition technology is riding high...
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