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Daon has become the latest company to offer free identity verification services during the COVID-19 pandemic, and this time, there are fewer strings attached. While other companies are providing free identity technology for organizations that have been deemed essential services, Daon has taken things a step further and is making the IdentityX authentication platform available […]
“Integrated Biometrics says the solution will first come to its Columbo fingerprint scanner in April, and that it will be expanded to its entire line of FBI-certified fingerprint scanning devices thereafter.” Integrated Biometrics has developed anti-spoofing technology for its fingerprint-scanning devices. The new capability is dubbed “IB-PAD”, with the latter part of that acronym referring […]
Redrock Biometrics has announced that it will be waiving the licensing fee for its PalmID software during the COVID-19 pandemic. The offer will make the authentication platform available for free to any businesses that are designated as essential services. Those businesses will have access to PalmID for at least one year, though that window could […]
Precision Kiosk Technologies is emphasizing the utility of its AB Kiosks in an effort to assuage the public’s concern about inmates who are being released from prison. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many prisons are opting to release low-risk prisoners to mitigate the severe public health (and humanitarian) threat the virus presents to a confined […]
Covington & Burling has completed its audit of the Israeli facial recognition specialist AnyVision. The audit was carried out at the request of Microsoft in an effort to determine whether or not AnyVision’s technology was being used in a mass surveillance scheme of Palestinians in the West Bank, as had been alleged in a series […]
The Jamaican Government has expressed its desire to fast-track the creation and implementation of a national identification system (NIDS) to help it with its aid and benefit distribution in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic that has swept across the world. In a digital press conference Prime Minister Andrew Holness said that it was clear […]
IDEMIA has extended its business relationship with Australia’s New South Wales Police Force, with the two parties agreeing to a six-year contract for the support and maintenance of IDEMIA’s LiveScan fingerprint reader solution. The LiveScan readers are already in place in 142 police stations across the state of New South Wales, and are used to […]
Biometric software and services provider Aware Inc. has announced changes to its executive team and Board of Directors in the form of the departures of David J. Martin, Richard P. Moberg, and Kevin T. Russell, and the appointment of Peter R. Faubert. Martin informed the Board of Directors of his intention to retire as Aware’s […]
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is looking to connect its facial recognition program with a gang intelligence app that was developed by a district attorney’s office in Pennsylvania in an effort to improve data collection and coordination. As NextGov reports, the Gang Intelligence Application (GIA) — developed by the Office of the District Attorney of […]
“… the company continues to keep business going in order to fulfill customers’ fingerprint scanning needs, with remote staff continuing to act in a customer support role.” While the COVID-19 pandemic has caused all kinds of disruption across society, SecuGen is still processing orders and shipping its biometric products through its distribution network, the company […]
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