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Secure digital identity takes on new importance for South Africans amid lockdowns
Yoti Digital Identity Fellow Tshepo Magoma discusses how COVID-19 has fast accelerated the need for digital identity in South Africa, and how more people and organizations are starting to realize its need and intended purposes .... Read the whole story here.

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Daily Biometrics News
TSA to stand up airport digital ID app as aviation sector deploys biometrics and temperature checks
New apps and solutions utilizing biometrics to facilitate safe air travel continue to be launched and implemented, and the TSA...
 
Automated retail solutions with biometrics and computer vision from CyberLink and VSBLTY implemented
Biometrics and computer vision capabilities for retail automation have been deployed or launched by CyberLink, Trigo, VSBLTY and Pixevia, as...
Keyless raises $2.2M to tackle enterprise breaches with face biometrics and multi-party computation
Keyless has raised $2.2 million in seed funding to provide privacy-enhancing biometric authentication to address the 37 percent increase in enterprise...
 
Voluntary Aadhaar biometrics use expanded to more government services, but advocates worry about exclusion
The use of Aadhaar biometrics is expanding to prevent social welfare fraud, enable innovation and pass on knowledge, and for...
Brainworks and Gibraltar Technologies develop biometric apps to support COVID-19 recovery
Brainworks has launched an application with “ambient biometrics” and artificial intelligence capabilities to detect COVID-19 symptoms earlier by measuring personal...
 
ID R&D biometric technology added to Cherry Labs’ AI video monitoring, names new sales VP for Latin America
AI video monitoring company Cherry Labs is collaborating with ID R&D to upgrade its monitoring system for assisted care with...
Syntiant announces $35M funding for edge AI chips after shipping 1M units
Syntiant Corp., the maker of small, energy efficient voice and sensor chips, has completed a $35 million C series investment...
 
Vingroup receives second FIDO2 certification for authentication server
Vingroup member VinCSS Cyber Security Services says it is the first in Vietnam to receive FIDO2 certification, enabling passwordless authentication...
Macy’s sued for allegedly violating biometric privacy with Clearview AI use
Macy’s use of Clearview AI’s face biometrics violated Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), according to a proposed class action...
 
Mouth biometrics – the next trend in user identity authentication?
Four design graduates from the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London have come up with an innovative wearable that allegedly...
PayByFace names new Advisory Board member, gets funding to support biometric payments growth
Biometric payment processing platform PayByFace has named Sreejit Ankarath, head of the Consulting, Transformation and Global Alliances with Tech Mahindra, as...
 
SAFR wins $1.9 million deal with U.S. Air Force for biometrics innovations
SAFR from RealNetworks has received $1.9 million in funding for innovative facial biometrics projects, consisting of two Phase II Small...
 
 
 
 
 
 
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IoT World 2020
  August 11, 2020 - August 13, 2020
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  August 18, 2020 - August 19, 2020
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