The ID Talk Podcast

On this episode of the ID Talk Podcast we welcome Yanik Brunet, Vice President of Sales for StoneLock, a specialist in enterprise-level facial recognition biometrics for identity management. Brunet has lived most of his life in the security industry, getting his start in a family business, so after providing his thoughts on the evolution of the security industry into the world of biometrics we know it as today, he and FindBiometrics EiC Peter Counter dig in to the controversy, challenges and opportunities surrounding the face biometrics space.

Brunet and Counter go on to discuss practical matters too, including adoption obstacles, education, the importance of liveness detection and a realistic timeline for the mainstreaming of biometrics in access control. They conclude with a sneak peak of what StoneLock has in store for 2020 and the three words to keep in mind as the industry awaits its official announcement.

To learn more about StoneLock and the topics discussed in this episode visit: https://stonelock.com/

Learn more about the topics discussed on this episode by visiting https://www.idexbiometrics.com/

For Biometric Smart Cards Month, Mobile ID World Editor in Chief Peter Counter speaks with David Orme, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for IDEX Biometrics, about the misconceptions around biometric payment cards.

IDEX Biometrics is completely focused on developing useful, functional, and affordable biometric fingerprint sensors and solutions for smart cards, whether they be for use in the payments, access control, ID or healthcare verticals. They also integrate their technologies into IoT and access control devices.

Counter and Orme start the episode on the topic of the technology: specifically the wide range of use cases for biometric cards, before focusing in on the value proposition in the payments sector. They go on to talk about the findings of a new report from IDEX Biometrics on the misconceptions about biometric cards, before looking ahead at what’s next for the company in an exciting preview of 2020 and beyond.

November is Face Biometrics Month at FindBiometrics – a four week event in which we are delving into the history, the technology, the promise and the controversy around facial recognition in identification and authentication scenarios.

On this episode we welcome Paravision to ID Talk. Formerly Ever AI, Paravision provides advanced computer vision technology to empower a wide range of mission critical applications. Susan Stover, FindBiometrics’ VP of Digital Content sat down for an in-depth conversation with Paravision’s CEO Doug Aley and the company’s newly appointed Chief Product Officer Joey Pritikin.

Their conversation begins with an introduction to Paravision, going on to talk in detail about how AI and Deep Learning technologies have affected face biometrics in recent times and the evolution of biometrics in the past five years. After touching on liveness detection and the contactless biometrics experience, Stover, Aley and Pritikin delve into the current controversy around some public facing deployments of facial recognition and offer guidance for an industry currently tasked with walking some delicate ethical lines.

Learn more about Paravision by visiting https://paravision.ai/

Read more about face biometrics by visiting https://FindBiometrics.com

On this episode of the ID Talk Podcast, Peter Counter, Editor in Chief at FindBiometrics and Mobile ID World, speaks with Benji Hutchinson, Vice President of Federal Operations, Advanced Recognition Systems Division, NEC Corporation of America.

To start off, the two discuss the many vertical markets included under the umbrella of "government biometrics" before delving deep into the world of border control – specifically the US biometric entry/exit mandate NEC is heavily involved with.

That topic, of course, segues very well into the ongoing privacy debate around the use of facial recognition by border control and law enforcement. Hutchinson and Counter talk about misconceptions around face biometrics, the conflation of identification and authentication, and NEC’s stance on the state of the technology.

The podcast finishes by discussing the status of the large American biometric databases, IDENT and HART, and what’s next NEC Corporation of America.

This episode of the ID Talk Podcast is part of Government Biometrics Month. To learn more, read the latest featured articles at https://findbiometrics.com

It's Government Biometrics Month at FindBiometrics so for the latest episode of the ID Talk Podcast, host Peter Counter speaks with David Benini, Vice President, Marketing and Product, at Aware.

The in-depth conversation begins on the topic of what we talk about when we talk about government biometrics – the many different government use cases from law enforcement, to border control and civil ID. Benini goes on to describe a new concept which is being pioneered by Aware and stands to be integral to government identity: the open ABIS.

The conversation then takes a shift to the frontier markets, highlighting trends from this year's ID4Africa conference, including the looming threat of vendor lock-in.

Listen to the full episode of the ID Talk Podcast for all of that and more on the current state and future of biometric technology in the government sector.

To learn more about Aware visit its website: https://www.aware.com/

For more about government biometrics head to https://findbiometrics.com/ and read our most recent featured articles.

Live from Money20/20 Europe! FindBiometrics and Mobile ID World's Director of Digital Content, Susan Stover, sat down for a special edition of the podcast with leading experts in the emerging biometric payment cards market: Fredrik Sjöholm, Vice President Sales, Precise Biometrics; and Sébastien Clamagirand, Vice President and General Manager Secure Payment and Identification for NXP Semiconductors.

This in-depth conversation digs into the role of biometric payment cards in today's omni-channel financial environment, key challenges in achieving mass adoption, the future of smart card technology, and much more.

Learn more about the topics discussed in this episode by visiting precisebiometrics.com and nxp.com

Readers of FindBiometrics know that May is On-Device Biometrics Month, a five-week deep dive on the authentication paradigm that’s killing passwords. That’s why, in this episode, FindBiometrics podcast host Peter Counter sits down with David Benini, Vice President of Marketing and Product at Aware.

Discussion topics include: how biometrics are killing passwords, digital identity in the remote and mobile workplace, liveness detection and more.

Learn more about the topics discussed in this episode: download Aware's new white paper, “Enterprise Security in the Age of Remote and Mobile Work” at aware.com/resources

Mobile ID World Managing Editor Peter Counter discusses the big biometrics trends of 2018 with Maxine Most, Principal, Acuity Market Intelligence.