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Onfido raises $50 million and adds former Salesforce executive to board
Onfido has raised $50 million dollars in a Series X funding round led by Softbank Investment and Salesforce Ventures, and will also add former Vice Chairman of Salesforce Frank van Veenendaal to its Board of Directors to help scale revenues from its biometric technology ... Read the interview with CEO Husayn Kassai here.

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NEC develops privacy and rights principles for applying biometrics and other AI
NEC Corporation has published a set of core principles for the application of biometrics and artificial intelligence with respect for...
 
Group of researchers calls for Amazon to stop selling biometric Rekognition to law enforcement
A group of 26 “concerned researchers” have called for Amazon to stop providing its biometric Rekognition service to law enforcement...
More MLB stadiums deploy CLEAR biometric tech for frictionless fan entry
CLEAR announced today new Major League Baseball (MLB) club partnerships and the expansion of its biometric ticketing solution at additional...
 
CNIL sets rules for biometric employee time and attendance systems in France
France’s Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) has published regulations for companies using employee’s biometrics, requiring the use...
Okta launches $50 million VC fund and forms three new integration partnerships
Okta has unveiled a $50 million venture capital fund to invest in early-stage startups focussing on using artificial intelligence, machine...
 
Imprivata and Verato combine biometrics and referential matching for patient records
Imprivata and Verato have announced a partnership to combine biometrics with referential matching to provide healthcare organizations with unprecedented accuracy...
Innovalor and WorldReach Software revealed as partners for biometric Brexit immigration app
In addition to biometrics provided by iProov, the UK Home Office’s post-Brexit EU immigration app will leverage ID document reading...
 
Japan rolling out biometric-based electronic customs declaration system
Japan’s Finance Ministry demonstrated a new electronic customs declaration system using biometric facial recognition technology in a media presentation yesterday...
AlertEnterprise adds facial biometrics to access control kiosk software
AlertEnterprise has added biometric facial recognition technology to its Visitor Management Kiosk software to deliver frictionless access security to organizations...
 
UnionCommunity introduces new product line at global partner conference
UnionCommunity, whose brands include Virdi and Nitgen, recently hosted its 9th global partner conference at the Korea International Exhibition Center...
 
 
 
 
 
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