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Chris Burt

Toronto

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Managing Editor at BiometricUpdate.com

Writer. Fiction, non, and tech. Friend of the night. Opinions expressed are those of the account operator.

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  • 1 week ago | biometricupdate.com | Chris Burt

    A big year for digital identity issuance, adoption and regulation has widened the opportunities for businesses around the world to make use of the technology to improve interactions with customers and others, according to an online presentation from Trinsic. The trick is knowing where those opportunities have already arrived, and where they are imminent.

  • 1 week ago | biometricupdate.com | Chris Burt

    NEC Corporation of America has introduced a new cloud service to provide biometric identity verification and searches to global enterprises, financial services, hospitality and ecommerce businesses and government agencies. Offering the company’s face biometrics capabilities on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model gives customers the ability to complete implementations quickly and reduce costs compared to software hosted on-premise.

  • 1 week ago | biometricupdate.com | Chris Burt

    It used to be that the UK public’s trust in the government was a barrier to the establishment of a functional digital ID system. Now it seems a lack of private sector trust in the government could pose a barrier. The public’s trust has been rendered mostly irrelevant by changes in the context of the debate.

  • 1 week ago | biometricupdate.com | Chris Burt

    Jordan has surpassed 1.6 million digital identities activated through the Sanad app, according to statistics from the Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship reported by Jordan News. Sanad provides a unified digital ID entry point for access to government services and is integrated with IrisGuard biometrics. Activation must be conducted in-person at a Sanad office where iris biometrics can be captured or remotely through a bank account using a supported bank app.

  • 1 week ago | biometricupdate.com | Chris Burt

    Deepfake faces are beyond even the ability of super-recognizers to identify consistently, with some sobering implications, but also a few positive ones, as explained in the latest lunch talk from the European Association for Biometrics (EAB). “Human Deepfake Processing – Insights from Super-Recognizers, Law Enforcement and General Society” was presented by Dr. Meike Ramon, founder of the Applied Face Cognition Lab.

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Chris Burt @AFakeChrisBurt
25 Aug 22

This is what's happening over here: https://t.co/ejuPn0vXyw #ID169 #podcast #legalidentity

Chris Burt
Chris Burt @AFakeChrisBurt
11 Feb 21

Hi @ThalesDigiSec I have a question related to an article I'm working on about your biometric payment cards, can you please direct me to someone who can answer?

Chris Burt
Chris Burt @AFakeChrisBurt
2 Mar 20

RT @trbouma: More than a decade of public sector thinking and application in this document. We're not it's entirely right. Have your say an…