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UK oversight group publishes ethics framework for police use of facial recognition
The UK government’s independent Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group has published an interim report outlining nine ethical principles forming a framework to guide the policy on and deployments of police facial recognition systems ... Read the whole story here.

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NEXT Biometrics raises $18.7M and reports 34 percent leap in gross margin for 2018
NEXT Biometrics revenue grew by 10 percent in 2018, and its gross margin swung from -6 percent in 2017 to...
 
Sensory facial recognition technology deployed in three new Nokia smartphones
Sensory announced today that Finnish mobile phone company HMD Global has integrated its TrulySecure biometric authentication technology into the Nokia...
IOM issues RFI for biometric systems for health assessment programs
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has issued a request for information (RFI) inviting biometrics companies and service providers to...
 
Zwipe selects Fingerprint Cards’ T-Shape sensor for biometric cards
Zwipe has selected Fingerprint Cards’ T-Shape sensor for its latest generation biometric card based on the sensor’s performance and scalability...
Chinese police using Watrix gait biometrics as company plans major funding round
Gait recognition technology from Watrix has already been tested by police in Beijing, Shanghai, and Chongqing, and the company has...
 
Blockchain-based biometric ATM prototype developed for the Saudi Arabian market
Alhamrani Universal, the largest automated teller machine provider in Saudi Arabia, has partnered with ShoCard to develop a biometric ATM...
IDEX reports preliminary 2018 revenues amid pivot to focus on biometric payment cards
Revenues of IDEX Biometrics were down significantly in its fourth quarter and preliminary full-year 2018 results from a year earlier,...
 
AU10TIX biometric onboarding technology reads problem barcodes
Identity document authentication company AU10TIX has announced a Direct-From-Image barcode reading technology that it says reads barcodes from identity documents...
New facial biometrics offering drives Cyberlink Q4 revenue gains
Cyberlink has reported revenues of NT $407.1 million (approximately US$13.2 million) for Q4 2018, an 11.25 percent increase from Q3...
 
Ipsidy partner implements biometric authentication for payment service clients
Ipsidy and its authorized reseller Safetrade Africa have announced that Safetrade’s Xpressa Payment Solutions division has successfully implemented Ipsidy’s Verified...
 
 
 
 
 
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