Facebook has acquired biometric security company Confirm.<\/p>\n
The startup revealed the acquisition in a notice posted on the Confirm.io website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n “This is the culmination of three years of hard work building technology that will keep people safe and secure online,” it said.<\/p>\n Confirm has shut down its current digital ID authentication software offerings during the acquisition process.<\/p>\n The biometric security company develops technology which uses facial recognition data and mobile biometrics to authenticate user identity.<\/p>\n Facebook has acquired biometric security company Confirm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":221515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[47298,48498,161],"class_list":["post-245900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-biometric-security","tag-confirm-io","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245952,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245900\/revisions\/245952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Facebook appoints former IBM executive as head of AI group<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"