Biometric Update
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Biometric Update is the leading online source for breaking news, analysis, and research about the global biometrics industry.
Joined March 2012
DIACC sees digital ID mutual recognition opportunity in Canada-EU trade deal talks. @mydiacc #digitalidentity .
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A Canada-EU digital trade agreement would compliment the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).
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US airports embrace biometric, digital IDV technology to improve travel efficiency. #airports #biometrics .
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More than half of the world’s top-10 airports have already started digital journeys to improve efficiencies in the travel process.
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Dutch police, FBI take down fake identity document site VerifTools. But large resource for generated IDs has simply popped up at another domain. #fraudprevention .
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Dutch police working in concert with the FCI have seized data from servers in Amsterdam powering the website and blog of VerifTools.
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NexG profits up amid KYC expansion. #biometrics #digitalID .
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NexG is reporting a sharp increase in its bottom line, despite a slight pullback in its top line results in the first quarter of 2025.
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In-car face biometrics can help stop sleepy, distracted drivers from crashing. ‘Attention support features’ get warm reception from drivers. #biometrics #facialrecognition @Ford .
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Automakers are integrating biometrics into the cabin as a safety measure to cut down on deadly crashes caused by drowsiness or distracted driving.
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Regulated businesses undergoing digital transformation catching up on IDV. Incode, Yoti, iDenfy, Prove and each integrated. #biometrics #identityverification .
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Businesses in regulated industries that have undertaken digital transformation are now catching up on identity verification.
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ELFT shows improvements in latent fingerprint biometrics accuracy. Entries from ROC, HiSign, Innovatrics, Dermalog, Tech5 set new highs. #biometrics @NIST .
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The latest ELFT by NIST shows further gains in the accuracy and speed of the top-performing latent fingerprint biometrics matching algorithms.
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Amazon releases identity and access management service for agentic AI. Dual model provides inbound and outbound authentication for AI agents and users. #accesscontrol #digitalidentity #IAM @awscloud .
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The product provides centralized capability for managing agent identities, securing credentials, and supporting integration with AWS and third-party services.
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Pakistan to launch new digital ID ‘super app’ amid oversight changes. #digitalID @NadraPak .
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Pakistan is seeking a consultancy to help it develop a unified digital platform for federal and provincial government services.
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DRC digital ID phased deployment underway following contract do-over. PPP to bridge digital, financial divide hailed. #biometrics #digitalID .
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Singapore's Minister for Sustainability and the Environment highlighted the DRC Pass digital identity system at the Africa Singapore Business Forum 2025.
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New Panama digital driver’s licenses valid for traffic stops. Program aims to strengthen roadside authentication as government goes digital. #digitalID #mDL .
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Like many governments, Panama’s is in the midst of executing a digital transformation strategy to bring more government services online.
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Decision to mandate use of student ID for board exams in India prompts criticism. UIDAI, Ministry of Education to accelerate Aadhaar update for school children. #biometrics #digitalID @UIDAI .
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The Automated Permanent Academic Account Registry is linked to a student’s academic record and used throughout their academic life cycle.
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Sri Lanka sees growing acceptance of GovPay digital payment system. #digitalidentity .
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This digital payment gateway, which launched in February, is part of the larger digital economy plan of the Sri Lankan government.
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Gaps in MFA, confidence, cybersecurity training make organizations vulnerable. Reports from Cisco, Duo dig into identity security threats from AI. @Cisco #cybersecurity #digitalidentity #IAM.
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How secure is digital identity? It’s a primary question in discussions about mass adoption. AI has only complicated the matter. But Cisco Duo is here to help.
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FaceAnonyMixer and the quest to reclaim biometric privacy. #biometrics .
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Researchers have developed a new facial anonymization system that allows biometric templates to be revoked, replaced, and anonymized without losing accuracy.
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South Korea’s ETRI sets sights on international standard for digital ID wallets. #digitalID #digitalwallets @HopaeInc .
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A unified framework ensures users can store and present government-issued IDs, mDLs, student cards, credit cards and more on their smartphones worldwide.
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Advance of retail biometrics runs up against corporate trust, transparency concerns. #BIPA #biometrics #dataprivacy.
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Retail biometrics are being adopted to secure payments, prevent theft and less often for use cases like employee time and attendance or access control.
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Idex needs biometric access card adoption, pronto. #accesscontrol #biometrics .
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Idex booked just $81k in revenue in its Q2 2025, as it seeks to lengthen its runway amid the uncertainty in the market for fingerprint-enabled smart cards.
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Trulioo document verification to secure KYC for WEX fuel card customers in Europe. Superior user experience, guided document capture swayed decision. #biometrics #digitalidentity #identityverification @trulioo .
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Trulioo’s document verification product uses biometrics and a proprietary machine learning algorithm to detect forgeries, deepfakes and injection attacks.
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Jumio detects opportunity to slash fraud rates with student identity verification. #biometrics #digitalidentity #fraudprevention #identityverification @jumio .
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Consumers worldwide are awakening to the dangers of AI-powered fraud, and as the demographic most familiar with AI tools, students are the most concerned.
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