Implications of the Forthcoming Forensic Sciences Standard ISO/IEC 21043 for Forensic Biometrics Online May 21, 2024 European Association for Biometrics (EAB) is hosting an upcoming lunch talk May 21, "Implications of the Forthcoming Forensic Sciences Standard ISO/IEC 21043 for Forensic Biometrics" by Didier Meuwly from the University of Twente and Netherlands Forensic Institute NFI. Didier will talk about the forthcoming forensic sciences standard ISO/IEC 21043 and its implications in the forensic biometric discipline. The presentation comprises five parts: Introduction, Existing Standards Re ..read more

Identification on the Move (IOTM) is a prototype airport biometrics system that can verify a user without them having to stand still, mitigating stop and go bottlenecks when travelers submit biometric scans to pass through checkpoints, according to an announcement from HTX, Singapore’s Home Team Science & Technology Agency. The prototype was designed by HTX’s Biometrics and Profiling Centre of Expertise and uses NEC, a company that makes its own airport kiosks, for biometrics. Users look at the iris scanner while walking through the clearance lane. NEC also previously worked with Tascent ..read more

More companies with household names familiar to consumers are getting hit with lawsuits for alleged violations of BIPA and New York's Biometric Identifier Information Law. T-Mobile is facing a suit for its use of facial recognition for theft prevention in New York City stores. Target is similarly accused of violating BIPA for its use of facial recognition to prevent theft. Amazon faces its own BIPA lawsuit by collecting workers' scans. T-Mobile sued after anti-theft facial recognition use in stores in NYC T-Mobile used facial recognition for theft prevention in its stores in New York City, a ..read more

Vancouver-based identity and business verification company Trulioo is marking the first anniversary of its Singapore office, as it looks to take up a position as a key player in the digitization of economies in the Asia-Pacific region. In a press release, the firm announced it achieved a 90 percent business verification rate across APAC, including in markets with minimal data availability and multiple languages. It says its 24/7 implementation support helps APAC brands expand into new markets and meet complex regulatory requirements in the KYC and KYB space. Trulioo’s Singapore office serving ..read more

Governments in the Asia-Pacific region are on trend in pursuing digital transformation initiatives, according to new analysis from Gartner naming digital identity ecosystems and adaptive security among the top five government technology trends for 2024. In Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Cambodia and Papua New Guinea, efforts are underway to digitize government services, with inclusion emerging as a common core objective alongside more robust online security. Sri Lankan government rolls out path to digital empowerment by 2030 Daily FT reports that the Sri Lankan government ha ..read more

American multimodal biometrics provider Rank One Computing has announced the opening of a computer vision lab for fingerprint biometrics and object recognition in Grand Rapids. This will further ROC's ties to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University and the Applied Computing Institute (ACI) at Grand Valley State University (GVSU). ROC's latent fingerprint recognition algorithm is one product currently under development at ROC Grand Rapids. It ranked top three for accuracy in NIST's latent fingerprint testing, achieving speeds 500 times faster than the in ..read more

Executives with Worldcoin and its parent organization recently met with Malaysian government officials, including Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, in an apparent change of tack for the biometric crypto and proof-of-humanity project’s approach to international expansion. The Block reports the meetings included Tools for Humanity Co-founders Sam Altman and Alex Blania, and coincide with another set of announcements and releases from Worldcoin about WLD token supply and data privacy measures. Some Worldcoin employees felt unrepared to deal with the heightened regulatory scrutiny and attention the c ..read more

A new report suggests that regulatory and governance frameworks that prioritize data privacy can trigger more adoption of eID in countries where interest levels still remain low. This is one of the major issues highlighted in the 2024 global eID report published this month by Strategy & Part of the PwC Network. The 26-page benchmarking report delves into adoption and data privacy of the online identification function in the digitized world of eight countries. These countries include Denmark, Estonia, France, India, The Netherlands, Norway, the United Arab Emirates and Uruguay. The report ..read more

Minnesota-based authentication firm Entrust is wasting no time in leveraging the tools it gained in its recent acquisition of selfie biometrics provider Onfido. A company release says Entrust is launching an AI-powered, single-vendor authentication tool that integrates identity verification and identity and access management (IAM) to defend against deepfakes, phishing, account takeover attacks and other digital fraud tactics. The enhanced authentication product adds Onfido’s algorithmic document and biometric verification to Entrust’s Identity as a Service (IDaaS) platform, enabling advanced ..read more

A lack of standardization among identity documents is the most common among several challenges facing businesses when they attempt to verify the identities of foreigners, according to a survey from Regula. The challenges are being experienced by many companies, given that 92 percent of businesses verify more foreign ID document than domestic ones. Lack of unified document standards was cited as a significant challenge by 41 percent of respondents. The survey was completed earlier this year with 750 fraud prevention decision-makers responding, and 750 digital nomads from the U.S., UK, Germany ..read more