Biometric technologies for retail payments made up a pair of the most-read articles of the week on Biometric Update, in the form of market engagement…
Lawmakers in the U.S. state of Florida are considering upgrades to the state police’s biometric ID system. It reportedly is 14 years old, overcapacity and…
The French parliament has been urged not to consider deploying facial recognition at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics event by Marie-Laure Denis, president of the…
Mastercard is expanding its Community Pass scheme to India where it plans to enroll agricultural workers with digital ID via its Farm Pass product. The…
Password manager firm NordPass has confirmed it will start storing passkeys and offer biometric passwordless authentication to access them. The move will enable users to…
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published new guidance to aid organizations in the design, development, deployment and…
In a daisy-chain of corporate finance, the world’s biggest asset manager, Blackrock, has increased its ownership of digital agreements security firm OneSpan. Almost simultaneously, OneSpan…
“It is not the work of government to issue IDs; it is the work of government to identify Kenyans,” said Kenyan President Ruto at the…
KYC providers are targeting businesses in underserved areas to improve access to financial services with technologies like selfie biometrics and liveness detection. Element and Identomat…
Legal restrictions on the use of facial recognition have prompted security camera vendor Verkada to shut down the capability in four U.S. jurisdictions, a move…
