Podcast: Dr. Sean Kelly says biometrics offer security, efficiency for healthcare
A new survey from Imprivata shows a shocking gap between how healthcare professionals see passwordless authentication, and how healthcare facilities…
Features and Interviews
Biometric Update offers exclusive features and executive interviews along with forward-looking, systematic data about the global biometrics market. Interviews provide perspectives from companies in the industry, their partners, analysts and other stakeholders in the ecosystem, individually or as part of in-depth features. Read our exclusive ID4Africa coverage.
Next Biometrics is betting on ‘anywhere-on-display’ — could a future iPhone use it?
The world’s most popular computing device to access the Internet has evolved at breakneck pace. Through the crucible of competition…
In AI era, identity is about governance, Microblink’s Hartley Thompson tells BU Podcast
“One of the defining things in my life is change,” says Hartley Thompson of Microblink. “How do you react to…
UK ETA, eVISA milestones position Entrust to expand citizen identity footprint
The UK’s Electronic Travel Authorization system and eVISA is backed of Entrust’s Citizen Identity Orchestration solution and scaling successfully, according…
SİMA İmza digital signature accelerates Azerbaijan’s digital transformation
Azerbaijan is in the midst of a major digital transformation. The government is digitalizing processes and issuing the tools for…
Testing age checks for Oz: Andrew Hammond of KJR talks trust on BU Podcast
It has been one month since Australia brought into effect its prohibition on social media for kids under 16. Initially…
Biometric identity verification is adapting to AI: 5 leading providers share how
Businesses making decisions about what technology to use for identity verification face a set of daunting pressures, but the biometrics…
AI, fraud and market timing drive biometrics consolidation in 2025 … and maybe 2026
Biometric Update reported on nearly 50 acquisitions in total during calendar 2025, about 10 more than in 2024, which had…
One check to rule them all: quest for reusable age assurance to ramp up in 2026
At first, the idea of reusable identity might sound redundant. After all, what is identity if not a stable set…
How DPI can accelerate Africa’s push for a single market
Since 2019 when continental leaders launched the operational phase of the single market initiative under the Africa Continental Free Trade…
