Jim Nash

Vouched performs biometric liveness checks against scanned photo identification for digital ID verification in general and KYC.

Russian biometrics firm NTechLab announced it has passed the level two presentation attack detection tests established by iBeta Quality Assurance.

Venture firm Newfund led this round. ShareID has raised a total of €2.6 million ($2.8 million) in two rounds. A pre-seed round was closed April 2021.

Executives at Trust Stamp are expressing surprise at the level of market interest in its yearling orchestration platform.

Biometric data was amongst the sensitive information stolen from a U.S. law enforcement tech provider. Dramatic improvements in data security are not assured.

Passwordless.dev will remain a development service enabling coders to create quick and secure Web sign-on experiences in Web apps.

The National Retail Federation’s annual convention will host a range of biometric solutions. PopID, Sensormatic, Vsblty and ITL technologies will be on display.

No global generation of kids, not the Xers, not even the Boomers will be as influential around the world as the biometrics babies will be.

According to the Government Accountability Office, agencies are behind in equal measure in accepting digital ID for identity proofing and authentication.

It is always interesting to look at even a caveat-cradled list of breakout businesses, and the list of the world’s biometric ID unicorns is no different.

A United States appeals court this week unanimously told Mitek it could not avoid being sued under the state of Illinois’ BIPA statutes.

Commercial biometric authentication may have reached the point when consumers, regulators and businesses feel like the training wheels can come off.

The Commission will fund a multi-national and multi-company consortium as part of a larger pilot project involving a regional digital wallet program.

Local police in the United States continue to update and sign new biometric surveillance contracts despite instances of vocal opposition.

A crowd of major corporations doing business in the United States is encouraging state governments to enact six vital policies.

Biometrics researchers at the University of Georgia are making the latest pitch that ears can do more than hold up glasses and masks.

Identifying a refugee without documentation and giving them internationally accepted physical ID is hardly easier today than it was for NGOs during World War I.

The number of United States law enforcement agencies using Ring’s social media application Neighbors is large and growing.