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1.3KBiometricsChina Continues Facial Recognition Adoption With Airport Scanners
Beijing Daxing International Airport has been incorporating facial recognition software more and more, and it’s being used to do everything from identifying...
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1.9KBiometricsHomeland Security Reverses Decision To Use Facial Scans For US Travelers
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reversed its plans for mandatory facial recognition scans of Americans arriving and departing the country,...
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1.7KAuthenticationDeep Dive: The Fight To Stop Biometric Spoofing
Biometric authentication is one of the hottest trends in the digital ID space. Users demand both ironclad security and seamless login experiences,...
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2.0KBiometricsHomeland Security: US Travelers Should Be Included In Facial Scans
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants to update a current law requiring non-U.S. citizens to be subject to facial recognition scans...
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2.3KBiometricsMobile Phone Registration in China Now Requires Facial Scanning
China has implemented a new policy requiring citizens who want new phone service to scan their faces to verify identities instead of...
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2.9KBiometricsLeaked Documents Show UN Facial ID Tenets Framed By China
Technology firms in China are framing facial recognition policies at the United Nations (UN), The Financial Times (FT) reported on Sunday (Dec....
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3.0KBiometricsChina Tech Giants Push For Face ID Standards
Tencent, Xiaomi and Ant Financial are among the Chinese tech giants partnering with artificial intelligence (AI) firm SenseTime in an effort to...
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2.7KRetailHow QSRs Are Driving Retail Innovation Via Emerging Tech
Retail innovation comes from various places – and for the new decade, that includes quick-service restaurants (QSRs), the site of massive technological...
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1.8KFacebookFacebook Says Facial Recognition App Was Only Used By Employees
Facebook built a facial recognition app that was intended only for internal use, a company spokesperson told VentureBeat on Friday (Nov. 22). ...
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4.2KResTechFacing The Fast Future Of QSR Payments Experiences
Make sure to bring more than your appetite when you dine out in the 2020s, especially at a quick-service restaurant (QSR). You...
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2.2KBiometricsIndian Café Criticized For Billing Customers Through Facial Scanning
Customers at a popular Indian cafe chain are unhappy that the company is using facial recognition software to bill its customers, CNN...
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2.7KNewsApple Card Growth, Flywire Hire and B2B Changes Top Week’s News
Are you ready for the weekend? We sure are. But here at the PYMNTS Weekender, we want to make sure you didn’t...
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1.4KToday In DataThe Evolution Of Retail With Digital Ordering, Social Media
U.S. consumers are turning to technology to place food orders, and restaurants are looking to enhance the digital ordering experience. At the same...
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3.4KRestaurant innovationTrending: Malibu Poke Gets Personal With Facial Recognition To Order, Pay
U.S. consumers are increasingly turning to digital technology to place food orders. A recent study found online food delivery orders increased nearly...
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2.4KRestaurant innovationWhen Restaurant Tech Sees Your Face And Identifies Your Taste
Facial recognition tech could give the old restaurant axiom “service with a smile” a whole new meaning, by allowing customers to reorder...
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5.4KAuthenticationThe Science Behind Affirm’s Identity Data Play
Digital identities are gaining popularity across industries as businesses, services and other operations increasingly move online. Consumers are normalizing the use of...
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3.0KFacebookFacebook Facing $35B Fine Over Facial Recognition Lawsuit
A class action lawsuit against Facebook, alleging that people in Illinois didn’t consent to have their photos used with the company’s facial...
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2.1KBiometricsSnapPay Merchants Can Now Accept Facial Recognition Payments
Global payments solution SnapPay announced the rollout of facial recognition payment technology for North American merchants. SnapPay said the technology gives users...
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2.8KAmazonAmazon Prioritizes Equal Pay, Fraud Prevention And Data Privacy
Online retail giant Amazon says it will launch into new markets amid an uncertain sea of controversies and regulations, CNBC reported on...
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3.8KBiometricsWorld Economic Forum: Facial Recognition Poses Privacy Risk
As more nations mull tapping into facial recognition technology to bolster security, an expert at the World Economic Forum said governments should...
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2.3KFacebookFacebook Expands Facial Recognition To All Users
Facebook has announced it’s going to stop using its controversial Tag Suggestions feature, and facial recognition technology is going to be available...
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1.6KIPOMegvii AI Startup Files For Hong Kong IPO
AI startup Megvii Technology has filed for a public listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The Beijing-based company, known for its...
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3.3KRetailCan Digitally-Read Emotions Play a Role in Payments and Retail?
Emotions play a significant role in all human endeavors, and that certainly goes for payments and commerce. And even as those two...
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2.7KRegulationUK Investigating Facial Recognition Use In London
The data protection regulator for the U.K. has opened an investigation into the use of facial recognition technology at property developer Argent’s...
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2.3KAuthenticationDeep Dive: Securing Digital Identities Without Relying On Passwords
Digital identification continues to make immense strides in implementation and uptake in the world’s economy, but it is not without vulnerabilities. More...
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3.5KInnovationUpcoming Google Pixel 4 To Offer Hands-Free Functionality
Google announced in a video tweet on Monday (July 29) that its upcoming Pixel 4 smartphone doesn’t need hands to operate it....
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2.9KSecurity & FraudFTC: Facebook Lied To Customers About Facial Recognition, Phone Number Usage
The Washington Post is reporting that as part of a milestone settlement against Facebook, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is going to...
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2.8KRetailCan Cameras Remove Friction From The Fast Food Drive-Thru?
How does a retailer really expect to know a customer these days, especially if that that customer is shopping inside a physical...
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3.3KAppleApple Launches Beta Version Of Sign-In With Apple
Apple continues to make progress with biometrics and facial recognition for device sign-in purposes. According to a report from 9to5Mac.com, “when you...
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2.4KBiometricsAlipay To Add Beauty Filters To Facial Recognition Kiosks In China
Alipay will soon add beauty filters to its facial-recognition payment systems all across China, according to reports. Chinese consumers are among the...
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1.3KRetailAlibaba, JD.com To Offer Consumer Shopping Data To Retailers
Through an Alibaba Group Holding Ltd program that offers years of shopping history for consumers, Bestore Co Ltd intends to connect technology...
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6.7KSecurity & FraudFacial Recognition Critics Roil Over Border Control’s Database Hack
United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has revealed that photos of travelers coming into and out of the country were stolen...
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Smart Glasses Firm Vuzix Launches AI-Powered Facial Recognition
Smart glasses company Vuzix has developed eyewear with artificial intelligence (AI)-powered technology that can recognize faces in a crowd, according to a...
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2.2KBiometricsMicrosoft Removes Facial Recognition Database From Internet
Microsoft has reportedly removed from the internet a database of 10 million faces which it had been using to train facial recognition...
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1.7KBiometricsAgency Says FBI’s Facial Recognition Tech Falls Short
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) and members of congress say the FBI’s use of facial recognition technology isn’t private or accurate enough,...
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5.5KIntelligence of ThingsWhy An Incremental Approach May Be Key To IoT Security
California’s recent IoT security law, mandating minimum security requirements for connected devices, attempts to thwart fraudsters and other bad actors. But while...
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2.2KLegalCongress Supports Facial Recognition Regulation
Members of Congress supported a plan to draft legislation aimed at the use of facial recognition software by law enforcement on Wednesday...
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1.8KBiometricsAmazon Shareholders Defend Facial Recognition Tech
At a meeting on Wednesday (May 22), Amazon Shareholders shot down two proposals to monitor and curb the eCommerce giant’s facial recognition...
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3.6KAMLDeep Dive: Weighing The Use of Biometrics For KYC
Biometric authentication enables processes as simple as unlocking a smartphone and as complex as streamlining airport security checks. With that in mind,...
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5.3KInnovationFacial Recognition Biometrics Finds A Friend In 5G
As 5G deployments start, retailers and other companies and organizations around the world are striving to find what works. One of the...
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2.4KRetailAmazon Investors To Vote On Facial Recognition Measures
In an environment where lawmakers and civil liberties groups are scrutinizing facial recognition software, Amazon is facing pressure from shareholders: Investors will...
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4.3KAuthenticationA Biometric Backlash Is Underway — And A Backlash To The Backlash
These are exciting times for biometrics, with the authentication method(s) moving into the mainstream. But a biometric backlash is underway — and,...
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2.6KBiometricsSan Francisco Facial Recognition Tech Ban Wins Support
Officials in San Francisco voted Tuesday (May 14) to ban the use of facial recognition technology by city workers in an 8...
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3.8KSecurity & FraudStorage App Used Photos To Train Facial Recognition Software
A popular photo app called Ever, which was ostensibly used for cloud storage of photos, has been using customer pictures to train...
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2.8KAuthenticationCiti Adds Biometrics To Its ‘Security Perimeter’
A single data breach costs a business $3.86 million on average. The high risks and costs of breaches, says Tapodyuti Bose, Global...
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4.7KBiometricsSan Francisco May Be First City To Ban Facial Recognition
The city of San Francisco moved a little closer to banning facial recognition software after adding amendments to the Stop Secret Surveillance...
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6.2KBiometricsChina Tests Facial Recognition Subway Payments
A subway operator in Shenzhen, China is testing facial recognition software, powered by a 5G network, to pay for entry, according to...
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5.0KAuthenticationDeep Dive: Digital ID Developments From Around The World
National identification systems are moving behind physical documents. Several global markets are integrating biometric data — including facial recognition and fingerprints —...
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4.9KGlobal PaymentsCaixaBank Brings Facial Recognition To ATMs; Tesco Bank Unveils Apple Siri Feature
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the introduction of automated teller machines...
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3.9KAuthenticationHow Face ID Can Power End-To-End Verification
Go back a generation or two and imagine the construction of the Gateway Arch — the sleek, shiny monument to westward expansion that...
