Biometrics already used to avoid baby swapping in maternity wards

São Paulo - Baby-swapping in maternity wards has already been the subject of Brazilian soap operas and a quick Google search is enough to verify that the problem is real and is being reported in the press. Because of this, the Ministry of Health, at the request of the National Council of Justice, issued an ordinance in February 2018 [...]

Brazilian technology in the Pentagon

A national provider of identification systems, Griaule wins two bids in the United States totaling US$82.5 million, one of them promoted by the Department of Defense

How Brazil's Griaule won a $75 million contract with the US Department of Defense

In 2002, entrepreneur Iron Daher started a business that he thought would be promising. In Goiânia, he founded Griaule to develop biometric systems. Two years later, the startup was selected to be incubated at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp). To this day, the city is the headquarters of the company, which has a turnover of R$ 16 [...]