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Biometric contactless cards making a sprint for the mainstream
A recent webinar looked at how the nascent contactless payment sector will grow in the shadow of COVID-19. Speakers from private banks, a central bank, Amazon and Zwipe agreed that accelerated deployment and acceptance of contactless infrastructure is one of the only positive developments resulting from the disease .... Read the whole story here.

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BIO-key to offer full biometric authentication stack with $2.5M PistolStar acquisition
BIO-key has reached an agreement to acquire enterprise authentication provider PistolStar for $2.5 million in cash, with plans to integrate the...
 
Persona facial recognition and biometric liveness secure scale-up of Umbrella volunteer base
Facial biometrics and liveness checks from Persona have been integrated with volunteer network Umbrella’s platform to provide online identity verification as...
Proposal would ban warrantless facial biometrics on U.S. police body cameras, use on protestors questioned
Among the changes proposed in The Justice in Policing Act recently unveiled by House Democrats in the U.S. is a ban...
 
Nets releases eID for remote digital identification, launches EU payments alliance with partners
Nets has released the Nets Passport Reader to provide electronic ID for remote digital identification with biometric liveness detection through...
UK to collect migrant fingerprints in France and plans longer retention of terrorism suspect biometrics
UK border officers have been instructed by the Home Office to collect fingerprints from migrants attempting to enter the country...
 
Daon’s biometric health screening app deployed to prevent COVID-19 spread at U.S. university
Anderson University, a private non-profit Christian liberal arts university in Anderson, Indiana, has partnered with Daon to roll out its...
A new bridge between Huawei and Trustonic for secure biometric app development
Trustonic Ltd. says its mobile application security development platform now supports Huawei Technologies’ hardware-backed Trusted Execution Environments, where biometrics are...
 
FacePhi further expands in Latin America with new biometrics customer Interbank Peru
FacePhi is reinforcing its presence in Peru by entering a second biometric partnership, this time with Interbank through technology partner...
Samsung files patent to prevent biometric fingerprint ID-related OLED burn-in
Samsung has applied for a patent describing OLED display burn-in prevention tech for smartphones with under-display biometric fingerprint ID for...
 
Another facial recognition firm sees money in biometric mining
Executives at a Polish facial recognition service firm, PimEyes, say their software can look at an uploaded image and locate...
Trinidad and Tobago, Korea, and Belarus governments advance ID credential plans
The Roadmap to Recovery team within Trinidad and Tobago’s government has recommended fast-tracking the country’s digital identity plans to support...
 
IBM pulls face biometrics and questions their use by law enforcement in letter to Congress
IBM is mostly exiting the biometric facial recognition business, pulling its general purpose recognition and analysis software from the market and...
  New standard will address jurisdictional and societal considerations for biometric applications
  NIST requests feedback on digital identity guidelines, including for behavioral biometrics and liveness
  Daon partners with Denver airport as contactless biometrics proposed to restore air travel confidence
  Digital health credentials with face or fingerprint biometrics supported by Tony Blair Institute
  Group says governments can push private sector AI ethics through procurements
  ID R&D biometric liveness detection chosen for low-bandwidth fraud prevention
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