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This year's ID4Africa AGM in Cape Town, South Africa is off to a successful start, with the 10th anniversary event attracting its most-ever participants.

Biometric national ID cards top the most-read news of the week, between a contract in Cameroon for Augentic and one in Bahrain for Thales.

Fingerprint Cards continues to make changes in its organization with former acting CEO and current Chief Product Officer Ted Hansson leaving the company.

I have been warning our readers for the past few years that the Government has the ability to track you through your vehicle if you own a later-model vehicle that is connected to the Internet. But today, we now know that this is not just a theory, but that it actually has been happening, as two U.S. Senators have discovered that eight automakers will give up users' location data to police without requiring a court-issued warrant. We already knew that these car companies tracked and stored t...

San Francisco-based startup OVE has unveiled a prototype of its Touch & Go fingerprint scanner for biometric retail payments.

Corsight CPO Tony Porter, Anekanta AI CEO Pauline Norstrom and Advent IM Limited Founder and Mike Gillespie will join Biometric Update for this May 7 webinar.

Iris biometrics at a distance, authentication for encryption keys and open digital identity APIs are all confirmed as mature technologies in this week's update.

Biometrics are protecting against false claims of all sorts in several of the most-read articles of the past week on Biometric Update.

As the law is currently written, companies face the threat of millions, if not billions, in liability exposure, even for mere technical violations of the law.

Idemia Public Security and Biometric Update will discuss developments in livescan biometrics capture and forensics in a webinar next week.