Biometrics News – Facial Recognition Australia’s Department of Home Affairs has made a proposal to parliament to use facial recognition scans to verify a user’s age when attempting to view pornography online. The service as proposed would scan the user’s face and match it against images of their official government ID. According to officials, the…
The Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) in Bengaluru, India, is rolling out a biometric boarding program in collaboration with Vision-Box. The Digi Yatra project will eventually include 350 touchpoints spread throughout the airport’s entire Terminal 1, making it the largest biometric boarding program in Asia. For now, however, the program will only be available to passengers…
NICE Actimize is putting together an X-Sight Marketplace that will consolidate a range of products and services that can help companies reduce financial crime. New solutions will be listed once they have been vetted by NICE Actimize, making it easier for enterprise-level customers to shop for and add new security features to ensure regulatory compliance.…
CheckpointID is teaming up with IDScan.net to provide better fraud prevention services for property managers, security guards, and other people monitoring multi-unit apartment buildings. The new platform will combine document verification and facial recognition to make sure the name on an application matches the name of the person who will be living in a unit.…
This week’s batch of top stories from FindBiometrics is about as varied as they come, spanning acquisitions, iPhones, executive changes, and more. Nevertheless, it’s still possible to discern a couple of themes, with a major through-line being the ongoing importance of mobile biometrics. Apple is responsible to a considerable extent for having launched this booming…
The demand for digital identity and document verification services is expected to skyrocket as the technology continues to improve. At least, that’s the takeaway from a new report from Goode Intelligence, which predicts that the market for such tech will hit $15 billion by 2024. According to the report, identity and document verification is so…
Onfido and Berbix are partnering with Checkr to create an all-in-one background check and identity verification platform. The new solution is called Checkr Connect IDV, and it will blend Onfido’s selfie authentication tech with Berbix’s photo ID verification tech to match a face to an ID and confirm the identities of candidates during the hiring…
“Working with Mitek to integrate its best-of-breed identity verification technology into our platform, means that our customers can be assured that the critical onboarding step is simple and secure.” – Ted Oorbals, CEO, Biocryptology Madrid’s Biocryptology has teamed up with San Diego-based Mitek to improve onboarding for its biometric authentication platform. Biocryptology has adopted Mitek’s document…
“End users will scan their government-issued IDs, and Acuant’s technology will immediately verify their age, allowing the system to issue their player cards.” Acuant‘s identity verification technology has been adopted by MGT Micro Gaming Technologies, a provider of player tracking software to casinos. MGT will use Acuant’s AssureID and AcuFill software for casino guest registration.…
Jumio has expanded its biometric Know Your Customer platform with a new document-reading capability. The new Netverify Document Verification feature allows users to scan documents like bank statements and utility bills, and Jumio says it can even work with folded and crumpled documents. The new capability complements a biometric authentication feature introduced to the Netverify…