IDEMIA
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Idemia (styled as IDEMIA; formerly known as OT-Morpho) is a French multinational technical company headquartered in Courbevoie, France. It provides identity-related security services, and sells facial recognition and other biometric identification products and software to private companies and governments.
Idemia (styled as IDEMIA; formerly known as OT-Morpho) is a French multinational technical company headquartered in Courbevoie, France. It provides identity-related security services, and sells facial recognition and other biometric identification products and software to private companies and governments.
Corporate history
Operations in the United States
IDEMIA provides products to various federal and state government entities in the United States and is the leading provider in the issuance of driver's licences. IDEMIA owns IdentoGO, a company that operates hundreds of storefronts in the United States which offer "state-of-the-art electronic fingerprint capture capabilities as well as other identity-related products and services." IdentoGO is an authorized service provider for the United States federal government, and as such provides identity verification services for multiple Transportation Security Administration programs, including TSA PreCheck and the Transportation Worker Identification Credential. IDEMIA's facial analysis technology has also been used by various entities across the United States: In Florida, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office has been using IDEMIA's software in their Face Analysis Comparison & Examination System (FACES) since 2001. In Massachusetts, the Registry of Motor Vehicles has been using IDEMIA's face recognition technology to run scans against the database of driver's license photos since 2006. In Arizona, the Department of Transportation implemented a mobile identification app with IDEMIA in 2021.
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External links
Official website of IDEMIA (formerly known as Morpho) Official website of IdentoGO
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