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Biometrics come to verifiable credentials with Applied Recognition and Sovrin Foundation
The Sovrin Foundation has partnered with several organizations, including Applied Recognition, to develop a digital identity wallet that includes biometrics with verifiable credentials. The wallet is intended to support SSI, like all Sovrin projects .. Keep reading this report.

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Daily Biometrics News
Rank One awarded $250K for face biometrics expansion by Colorado accelerator program
Rank One Computing has received a grant of $250,000 from a state government body to advance its face biometrics technology...
 
Biometrics come to verifiable credentials with Applied Recognition and Sovrin Foundation
The Sovrin Foundation is best known in the digital identity community for the MainNet Hyperledger Indy identity ledger, which it...
EAB advocates for biometric border posts to include privacy-enhancing technologies
The non-profit European Association for Biometrics (EAB) has published a position paper this month highlighting the biometric technology that can...
 
New fingerprint biometrics techniques unveiled by researchers
A new subsurface fingerprint biometric system unveiled by BitFlow can reportedly identify individuals from skin layers around 200−400 µm beneath...
Illinois Supreme Court ruling in biometric data privacy suit puts insurers on the hook
West Bend Mutual Insurance Co. is obliged to defend Krishna Schaumburg Tan Inc. from allegations it violated Illinois’s Biometric Information...
 
Trust lacking as African digital ID systems expand
A pair of editorials suggest that government digital ID initiatives in West Africa and East Africa are facing a shortfall...
Facebook touts unsupervised voice biometrics, AI infrastructure could speed things up
Voice biometrics were already poised to shoot past the underwhelming roles it performs today, and a new announcement by Facebook...
 
CyberExtruder upgrades facial recognition platform for VMS integration
Aureus Insight, the newest version of CyberExtruder’s facial recognition and video analytics solution, has been released with advanced alerting features...
UK unveils enhanced border control plans with digital ID for visas
The UK has unveiled new plans to fully digitalize the country’s visa system, including digital ID integration. The move was...
 
NIST kicks off public discussion about creating trust in AI
A U.S. federal agency is going back to basics to address AI’s fundamental weakness: It is distrusted by most of...
Zero trust adoption grows as critical systems suffer insider and privileged access breaches
Privileged credential theft and insider threats have each affected more than half of organizations in the U.S. over the past...
 
Canadian digital identity strategy to emphasize open standards for interoperability
Canada has launched a new strategy for its digital operations, which focusses significantly on the need for trusted digital identities...
  Investments in airport biometrics and health pass adoption grow as sector reopens
  Fingerprint biometric market to reach $8.5B in 5 years
  Campaigners predict U.S. federal facial recognition regulation
  Socure, Idemia and FaceTec add digital identity veterans to leadership
  Benefits of facial recognition kiosks for hospitality, travel highlighted by NEC, BizVibe
  Innovatrics’ SmartFace biometrics updated with passive liveness detection on live video
Events and Webinars
ID4Africa LiveCast – Building Trust in the Democratic Process
  May 26, 2021 - May 26, 2021
Building Trust in the Democratic Process Online May 26, 2021, 12:30 GMT Identity management has always played an indispensable role...
3rd Digital Transformation in Banking Summit
  May 27, 2021 - May 28, 2021
3rd Digital Transformation in Banking Summit Online May 27 – 28, 2021 Digital transformation remains a key priority for banks...
ATMINSEC ATM Security Conference and Exhibition
  June 1, 2021 - June 2, 2021
ATMINSEC ATM Security Conference and Exhibition Istanbul, Turkey June 1 – 2, 2021 ATMINSEC ATM Security Conference and Exhibition will...
ENBANTEC Retail Banking Conference EMEA
  June 2, 2021 - June 3, 2021
ENBANTEC Retail Banking Conference EMEA June 2 – 3, 2021 Live Virtual Event The ENBANTEC Retail Banking Conference EMEA on...
EAB workshop on fingerprint image quality (NFIQ2.1)
  June 15, 2021 - June 16, 2021
EAB workshop on fingerprint image quality (NFIQ2.1) Online June 15-16, 2021 The European Association for Biometrics (EAB) together with the...
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