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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

    Biometrics are allowing people to prove who they are, speeding journeys through airports, and enabling anonymous online proof of age, but market forces and risks compel providers to evolve or get left behind, as seen in the most-read articles of the week on Biometric Update. DNP and Laxton are combining to scale their portfolio and operations, while regulatory compliance, pilots and testing are all part of the cost of doing business.

  • 1 week ago | biometricupdate.com | Chris Burt

    Onboarding and compliance orchestration engine provider Zenoo has formed a pair of partnerships to give its customers a broader range of identity verification options. A strategic partnership with identity acceptance network Trinsic is intended to improve the privacy, speed and simplicity with which organizations verify their users across borders, and an integration of Sumsub’s ID verification gives financial institutions advanced tools for streamlined onboarding with no coding.

  • 1 week ago | biometricupdate.com | Chris Burt

    Larger face portrait to ease manual identity verification Categories Biometrics News | Civil / National ID | Government Services The Netherlands will introduce new identity documents for asylum seekers Idemia Smart Identity, compliant with the ICAO specification for vertical IDs, in the second half of this year. The Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) announced the new asylum seeker IDs with a large portrait image size this week to facilitate easier manual identity...

  • 1 week ago | biometricupdate.com | Chris Burt

    Clear has signed up T-Mobile as the first publicly-announced customer of its digital identity verification platform with biometric multi-factor authentication (MFA) for enterprises since it rebranded as CLEAR1. CLEAR1 was introduced as the company’s identity platform for businesses in April, giving a new name to existing capabilities. “Identity is the foundation of trust in every organization,” says Jon Schlegel, chief security officer at Clear.

  • 1 week ago | biometricupdate.com | Chris Burt

    Data collected for Gov.uk One Login will not be used to target advertisements or profile users, and selfie biometrics for remote ID verification will be deleted after 30 days, the UK’s Government Digital Service has announced. A from GDS describes how and why biometric data is collected for liveness and “likeness” checks, and sets out the data storage and sharing policy.

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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…