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Biometrics and digital ID in Africa this week: politics, ecommerce, Covid-19 biometric capture bans
A roundup of how the ongoing Covid-19 situation is affecting digital ID and biometric projects across Africa, tech firms are stepping forward to promote their no-touch biometric verification systems such as remote voice and facial recognition, and in Somalia, biometric registration is found to be helping detect and deter child soldiers .. Read the full story here.

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Biometrics industry seeing higher demand and adapting technology to help outbreak mitigation
Biometrics is one of the industries singled out as experiencing a surge in demand due to the coronavirus pandemic by...
 
ImageWare granted new multimodal biometric authentication and enrollment patent
ImageWare Systems was granted a new multimodal biometric authentication and enrollment patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office...
Indonesia biometrics provider PrivyID joins FIDO Alliance and plans working group participation
Indonesian e-signature digital identity technology provider PrivyID has officially joined the FIDO Alliance to take part in global policy and...
 
AnyVision facial biometrics not powering mass surveillance in West Bank but Microsoft to divest stake
Microsoft is divesting its stake in AnyVision, due to a change in its investment policy and despite an audit finding...
India launches biometric tracking measures as Canada, US delay data collection to prevent virus spread
Governments around the world are responding to the continuing coronavirus outbreak, in some cases by implementing biometric tracking measures, and...
 
Alibaba explains development of facial biometric access control system for people wearing masks
Alibaba has trained an “eye recognition” algorithm along with a mask detection model to perform biometric identification of people wearing...
Redmi releases smart display with biometric face and voice recognition
Redmi has released its first facial and voice recognition-enabled smart display inspired by Xiaomi’s Mi AI touchscreen speaker Pro 8...
 
Feds want to apply face recognition, data analysis to transnational gangs
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials are seeking quotes for a cloud-based, biometric facial recognition application that can help...
Apple considers biometric authentication for Apple Watch, Mac series
Apple may be adding Touch ID fingerprint biometric to Apple Watch and Series 2 will not support watchOS 7, industry...
 
Shufti Pro donates free ID and biometric face verification to coronavirus frontline organizations
Shufti Pro is offering two months of up to 10 million free ID and biometric face verifications to non-profit and...
Russian healthcare digitalization bill for remote patients includes biometrics for authentication
Members of Russia’s Federation Council and Parliament (Duma) have drafted a bill to digitalize healthcare with biometric authentication for more...
 
What’s the difference between biometric authentication and identity verification?
This is a guest post by Aman Khanna, VP of Products at ThumbSignIn. By this point, anyone who’s ever used...
Biometrics and digital ID in Africa this week: politics, ecommerce, Covid-19 biometric capture bans
Covid-19 continues to impact biometric systems across Africa. After initial reports in previous weeks of systems being suspended to reduce...
 
Fingerprint payment cards, biometrics for autos and industry pandemic response top news this week
How a fingerprint biometrics provider will navigate the next phase of its business, new entrants into the market for identifying...
  Insurance company responsible for biometric data privacy lawsuit defense and damages
  Biometrics discussed for account security, health risk identification and enterprise apps during pandemic
  BIO-key to supply biometrics for ecommerce in $45M partnership with Nigerian government agency
  Trust Stamp adds AI and ML experts, focusing on biometric technology for public health and security
  World Economic Forum spells out its decentralized biometric travel ID project
  IWBF biometrics and forensics workshop to be broadcast online
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