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Hikvision shows off 900K-square-foot facility for manufacturing biometric surveillance cameras in India
Hikvision’s India subsidiary has opened a manufacturing facility in the country, with facial recognition surveillance cameras being built by more than 2,000 skilled and semi-skilled workers in a 900,000 square-foot facility .. Read the full story here.

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Seattle port authority votes to work with CBP on biometric exit at Seattle airport
The Port of Seattle Commission has voted to work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on the implementation of...
 
BIO-key to provide biometric authentication platform to Nigerian telecom in $30M deal
BIO-key has announced its first major contract win in Africa since the launch of its new strategy for the continent,...
Herta upgrades biometric facial recognition to work with facemasks
Herta has upgraded its facial recognition algorithm to identify people wearing masks, the company announced in response to the global...
 
New state privacy laws for OEMs: keeping an eye on biometric data
OEMs face a patchwork of state biometric data privacy laws that may apply to data collected and used by new...
New biometric crypto smartcard wallet from CardLab and eSignus features Fingerprint Cards sensor
CardLab and eSignus have partnered to develop a cryptocurrency hardware wallet solution in a smartcard form factor leveraging biometric security...
 
Biometrics company leaves unhashed fingerprint data of thousands exposed to internet
Unsecured fingerprint biometric data from up to 76,000 people has been left exposed on the internet, as security researcher Anurag...
India set to stand up world’s largest government facial recognition database for police use
India’s central government approved the deployment of its Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS) across the nation beginning early next year,...
 
Passive biometric facial liveness from ID R&D implemented by Zenoo to boost onboarding conversions
Passive facial biometric liveness detection technology from ID R&D has been implemented by digital onboarding innovator Zenoo to strengthen security...
Advisory board in Hong Kong tells Beijing to back off cameras in smart lamp posts
In an illustration — perhaps unique — of how critical trust is to new communications technology, an advisory committee in...
 
Scottish Parliament passes bill to address police use of biometric data
The Scottish Parliament has approved legislation to establish a Biometrics Commissioner that will monitor how law enforcement captures, stores, uses...
TMB, KBank ready with facial recognition for e-KYC platforms
Digital banking platform Me by TMB and KBank in Thailand are each releasing new biometric services for opening savings accounts...
 
Gov.uk Verify digital identity chief pulls out, moves into private sector
Lisa Barrett, the digital identity chief of the Gov.uk Verify program, has resigned and is moving from the Digital Service...
Biometrics awards round-up: veriScan, Access Softek, Qualcomm, Kount, Socure, Zetes
The 2020 business technology awards’ season is upon us, and several biometrics companies, as well as organizations implementing biometrics from...
 
Biometrics industry gears up for connect:ID; Iris ID, Jenetric, Cyberlink and Get Group announce demos
Connect:ID 2020 is taking place this week in Washington, D.C., with presentations and demonstrations from many of the biometrics industry’s...
 
 
 
 
 
 
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