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Biometrics and digital ID in Africa this week: BIO-key, Yoti, Simprints, iiDENTIFii and Innovatrics
A report from the Center for Global Development keeps us looking ahead at the longer-term benefits to development of digital ID, a field diary from Yoti's Digital Identity Fellow in Africa brings some refreshing real-life detail, and social enterprise Simprints is developing a way to identify patients and link them to the right care, and even their test results, without the need for touch .. Read the full story here.

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Daily Biometrics News
Global ID and Idiap Research Institute to develop contactless vein biometric scanner for hospitals
A new project to develop a contactless scanner for biometric hand vein identification has been launched by Global ID and...
 
Biometrics are an essential part of the fintech equation
This is a guest post by Michael Boukadakis, CEO of Enacomm. Biometric technology is turning out to be the “X...
Trust Stamp launches biometric privacy-preserving location tracking, Tech5 and iComply offer remote ID support
A new tool to provide biometric privacy-protecting location-tracking has been launched by Trust Stamp, leveraging the company’s core technology with...
 
Trustonic, OneSpan, Nivo, IDYou, Huawei implement biometrics to secure bank and mortgage apps
Korea’s KB Kookmin Bank now offers fingerprint or facial biometrics for a simpler authentication experience through a successful implementation of...
Apple patent filing shows gaze control, long-range Face ID biometrics for smart homes
Apple has invented an upgraded HomePod with built-in camera for gaze control and long-range Face ID biometrics, according to a...
 
Megvii registers major biometrics revenue fall following U.S. trade blacklist
Chinese AI company Megvii suffered a major blow in terms of revenue after it was included on the U.S. trade...
Idemia iris recognition algorithm tops leaderboard in NIST biometric accuracy testing
Iris biometric algorithms from Idemia has been placed atop the leaderboard for the latest version of the IREX 10: Identification...
 
Google sued for allegedly violating children’s biometric privacy with classroom tools
A lawsuit has been brought against Google by a pair of children from Illinois alleging the tech giant collected biometric...
CMU researcher says voice recognition can spot Covid-19 cough
At a time when alleged treatments for the novel coronavirus are multiplying like fungi in a Petri dish, it can...
 
Secure Technology Alliance white paper discusses mDL implementation in U.S.
The Secure Technology Alliance has published a white paper to provide recommendations for U.S. states interested in adopting mobile driver’s...
Privacy observer complains to Greek data protection head about police biometric project
Greek internet privacy advocate and European Digital Rights (EDRi) observer Homo Digitalis has raised questions about the legality of the...
 
Biometrics and digital ID in Africa this week: BIO-key, Yoti, Simprints, iiDENTIFii and Innovatrics
The coronavirus pandemic is also an opportunity for digital technology, according to the CEO of social enterprise Simprints. Elsewhere, the...
Biometrics for online security, access control, pandemic impact top digital identity news of the week
Demand for biometric technology seems to be receiving a boost from the sudden need to conduct as much business as...
 
Biometrics research briefs: touchless sensing and gesture, security screening and image recognition
Touchless biometrics will be among major drivers pushing the touchless sensing market to grow from $6.8 billion this year to...
 
 
 
 
 
 
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