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Technology products company VPR Brands has announced a partnership that will see its Automated Infrared Body Temperature Screening Device — also known as VPR Verified — available for resale through Katom Restaurant Supply, Inc. The VPR Verified solution is aimed primarily toward the food service industry and restaurants, as a way to allow those businesses […]
Yoti will be taking on a more active role in the fight against child sexual abuse as the latest member of the Point de Contact association. Point de Contact was founded in 1998 to report material that depicts child sexual abuse and stop the distribution of illegal content online. As a member of the association, […]
MarketsandMarkets has released a new report that details the impact of COVID-19 on fingerprint sensor markets. In that regard, the firm expects the market for that technology to double between 2020 and 2025, growing from $3 billion to $6 billion even though the coronavirus has raised health concerns and discouraged the use of shared fingerprint readers. […]
“It’s well-established that suspects can’t be forced to divulge the passcodes that would enable phone access, but there is growing debate about whether biometric data amounts to the same thing.” Another prominent court has weighed in on the question of Fifth Amendment rights with respect to biometric phone unlocking, with a federal court in Kentucky […]
Identity verification and authentication company Onfido has announced a partnership with global human resource outsourcing provider (HRO) Neeyamo Inc. that will allow the latter to perform remote candidate identity checks. Through this partnership, Neeyamo will be able to utilize Onfido’s real-time artificial intelligence-driven tech to check whether a document is genuine or potentially fraudulent. Neeyamo’s […]
The European Union is once again considering a ban on facial recognition. The possibility of a temporary ban surfaced in an early draft of a European Commission white paper in January, but those plans were eventually abandoned in the final draft of the paper. Now, the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee is calling for a […]
FindBiometrics is celebrating the Future of Finance: a special summer event presented in association with our financial industry events partner Money20/20 Europe. That’s why in this episode of ID Talk we are pleased to present podcast co-host Susan Stover’s interview with Uri Rivner, Chief Cyber Officer and Co-Founder at BioCatch. Their wide ranging conversation explores […]
Singapore’s Changi Airport has announced a number of new measures to allow passengers to safely travel through it during the COVID-19 pandemic, including biometric immigration kiosks, touchless check-in, and various cleaning innovations. The measures are being rolled out airport-wide in anticipation of air travel resuming out of Singapore in the coming weeks. Upon arrival, passengers […]
The Biometrics Institute has shared the results of its 11th annual Industry Survey, which revealed that the majority of people (60 percent) believe that COVID-19 will fundamentally alter the way in which biometric technology is used and deployed moving forward. The respondents echoed other organizations in predicting that the virus will motivate technology providers to […]
Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) is officially moving forward with its biometric voter registration drive. The organization is hoping to record the biometric information of roughly 17 million voters over the course of the 38-day registration period. To do so, the EC has set up 50 registration centers, though only ten of them will be open […]
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