Detecting Covid-19 Through Voice, Government Suspends Biometrics In Elections, Emergency Basic Income Scheme Plagued By Hackers

Welcome to this week’s news round-up on the Brazilian innovation and technology ecosystem. Here is a selection of key developments and news you should know in Latin America’s largest economy during the week ending July, 17, 2020: Getty Brazil suspends biometric identification in elections

Biometric technology will not be used in this year’s municipal elections in Brazil to reduce the risk of Covid-19 infections. The authorities suspended the use of fingerprint identification in the upcoming elections after concluding that readers could not be sanitized after each use and that use of biometrics tends to cause longer queues and contribute […]

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