Estonian selfie authentication startup Veriff has raised $69 million in a Series B funding round. The investments were led by the venture capital firms IVP and Accel. The news comes […]

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has caught two more imposters at Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C. Both women were trying to enter the country from Cameroon via Belgium, […]

IDnow is commending Germany’s Federal Network Agency (aka the Bundesnetzagentur) for a decision that clears the way for new forms of identity verification in the country. The decision was made […]

SITA is trialing a Smart Path passenger screening system for domestic travelers at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The airport already offers biometric screening on international flights, and is now […]

Buzzfeed News has published a comprehensive (and searchable) list of US public agencies that have used Clearview AI’s controversial technology to make at least one facial recognition search. The list […]

United Arab Emirates residents can now use facial recognition to gain remote access to various government services. To that end, the country has now activated a registration system that allows […]

Government authorities in India are planning to use facial recognition to verify the identities of citizens getting their COVID-19 vaccinations, and is already piloting the technology in the state of […]

Jumio has partnered with iProov in an effort to speed up its onboarding procedures and improve its liveness detection capabilities. To that end, the company has now integrated iProov’s Liveness […]

FacePhi continues to build out its presence in the Argentina market, announcing that it has provided biometric onboarding technology for a new investment platform. The latter is called Inviu, and […]

Precise Biometrics is singing the praises of Innovatrics’ SmartFace facial recognition system. The company licensed SmartFace back in 2019, and integrated it into its YOUNiQ access control platform to enable […]