Chris Burt

Presentations at the Global Age Assurance Standards Summit on Thursday largely centered on the technologies available to meet the standards, prevent the harms and deliver the benefits discussed during the first three days of the event in Manchester.

Biometrics, and fingerprints in particular, have long been one of the pillars of forensics work performed by police and crime scene investigators. Livescan technology has emerged as a tool enabling law enforcement to capture biometrics both more quickly and with higher quality than legacy approaches.

America’s single-sign on system for government benefits and services, Login.gov, is getting a face biometrics option for enhanced identity verification for a May pilot.

Big biometrics contracts and deals were the theme of several of the stories on that drew the most interest from Biometric Update readers this week, along with challenges for facial recognition. Idemia is providing a biometric back-end upgrade for Nigeria’s national ID, and the acquisitions of Onfido by Entrust and Vision-Box by Amadeus are now complete. Meanwhile public trust, facial surgery, morph attacks and image quality are getting attention from regulators, researchers and standards committees.

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology presented a preview of its assessment of facial age estimation with selfie biometrics at the Global Age Assurance Standards Summit, which revealed promising initial results for assurance that an individual is over 18. The evaluation also suggests that with effective thresholds in place, biometric age estimation is potentially as effective as checking a date of birth field on an identity document.

Summit wraps up with a definition, a draft and a set of principles and guidelines

The Digital Trust Service being set up by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) to ease the use of mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs) has its first two participating states.

Major changes are afoot at SecureAuth, which has appointed Joseph Dhanapal as Chief Executive Officer on the heel of acquiring customer identity and access management (CIAM) provider Cloudentity.

Banks could play a significantly larger role in protecting consumers, businesses and payment systems from fraud, Intellicheck CEO Bryan Lewis.

UK group wants more investment, NZ supermarket and Target face accusations