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In his fourth field diary, Yoti Digital Identity Fellow Tshepo Magoma is warning about the alarming number of scams that have tried to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa. Magoma called particular attention to the province of the Western Cape, which has accounted for 59,315 of the 132,000 positive cases in the country. […]
Invixium has been named as Frost & Sullivan’s 2020 Entrepreneurial Company of the Year. The company was able to distinguish itself from the competition with its rapid response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The award was presented after a comprehensive analysis of the global biometric access control market. Frost & Sullivan specifically commended Invixium for its […]
MarketsandMarkets has released a new report that predicts that the market for Biometrics-as-a-Service products will more than double in the next five years. The report places the current value of the market at $1.5 billion, and forecasts that that will grow to $3.7 billion by 2025. Those numbers represent a CAGR of 19.7 percent. The […]
“As we look to the future, our positioning is strong having established a secure remote work process and cloud infrastructure, enabling a seamless virtual working environment.” – Bob Eckel, CEO, Aware, Inc. Biometrics specialist Aware, Inc. has announced its latest quarterly results, which indicate that it is one of the many companies to have taken […]
A new NIST report suggests that facial recognition providers may be overstating their ability to identify people wearing masks. The organization found that the error rates of the top platforms fluctuated between five and 50 percent when comparing photos of people without masks to photos of the same people with face masks that had been […]
The inaugural Authenticate conference will officially be a virtual event. The FIDO Alliance originally scheduled the conference for the first weekend of June in Seattle, but pushed it back to November in the hopes that the event would still be able to take place in person. Unfortunately, doing so is no longer feasible due to […]
Paz Bernaldo believes that the emergency relief measures that Argentina has enacted in response to COVID-19 could paradoxically increase financial exclusion in the country. In her latest field diary, the Yoti Digital Identity Fellow expressed particular concern about the Emergency Family Income Payment (IFE), a government program that provided low-income citizens with a 10,000ARG payment […]
“…Trulioo advises financial services providers to implement stronger authentication measures like biometrics and One-Time Passcodes, which will make it more difficult for fraudsters to execute account takeover attacks.” Trulioo is the latest security provider to warn about scams that take advantage of COVID-19. The company collaborated with PYMNTS on a new Anti-Money Laundering and Know […]
Yoti will be providing actors with immunity credentials to enable the UK’s first live stage show since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The cast and crew of Sleepless, A Musical Romance will be tested every single time they show up for work at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, both during rehearsals and when daily […]
The Canadian Federal Government has relaxed its fingerprinting requirements for new hires during the COVID-19 pandemic. In normal circumstances, a fingerprint scan is part of the normal background check process that employees must complete to gain security clearance. However, social distancing protocols have made it more difficult to obtain those prints, so government agencies have […]
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