Five questionable cases of election fraud and how they could’ve been avoided

Deceased people still registered to vote, bad ballot design or even honest mistakes can raise eyebrows about the integrity of elections. Even more so in these times, when it has become easy to enrage the masses into believing the system is crooked – as we saw in the US after the 2020 presidential elections, when […]

Fast, compact and standardised: the Minex benchmark’s potential for improving elections everywhere

Contributor Imagine being in charge of building a list of all eligible voters in your home country from scratch – a task crucial for preserving democracy. Yet there is almost no starting point of reference because the citizen registry is incomplete and riddled with duplicates, minors or deceased people. You and your team opt for […]

Seeing past the marketing fluff: How to identify trustworthy biometric providers

Today, the main risk of using biometrics is not inaccuracy, but ensuring the protection of sensitive personal data. Any potential intrusion of privacy, real or perceived, risks the reputation of the companies using the technology, and has the potential to seriously damage customer trust.

Data ethicist Juraj Podroužek: “I think it’s correct to have some red lines that set out areas where AI should not venture.”

Technologies are not value-neutral; they are imbued with the values of their creators. How can the ethical values that society deem important be reflected in technologies?

Traditional versus digital onboarding in banking

Onboarding, put simply, is the process of signing up for a bank account.

63% of customers abandon digital bank onboarding. Is biometrics the solution?

A new report shows that in 2020, of all potential customers willing to open a bank account remotely, almost two in every three abandoned the onboarding process – a sharp increase compared to previous years.

The way we used to bank:
a nostalgic voyage through the past decades of financial technology

Nonstop innovation has shaped the way we think about banking and finance in the last decades, but also influenced how we perceive trust and technology.

“This technology has helped in so many cases. I hope it will be used even more,” says a liveness check expert Peter Molčány

Videocalls have been a foolproof standard for liveness checks, but they are expensive, unnecessary and difficult to scale.

Good biometrics serve all,
not just the selected few

About Rick Chandler Rick Chandler is a treasurer and board member of EEMA, a European think tank focusing on identification, authentication and privacy.  Choosing the right high-end technology to facilitate a crucial task is never a trivial assignment – and even less so when it involves caring for human lives. In recent years, biometrics has […]

The place where world-class AI is made

Visit the Brno located AI lab, where a team of enthusiastic computer scientists design and code the intelligent engine behind the trusted biometric solutions.