Last week at FindBiometrics we continued our month long examination of invisible biometrics while parental privacy concerns reared their head once again in the realm of education authentication. The industry news was diverse all week with mobility taking much of the focus, along with border control headlines and more.
Here is a look back on the top stories from the week that was.
Mobile Biometric Commerce
Apple Pay – the mobile wallet from Apple that leverages fingerprint biometrics – launched in the United Kingdom this week while the vice president of Alipay predicted the death of passwords in mCommerce during Mobile World Congress Shanghai. A new report firm Acuity Market Intelligence positioned mobile biometric technology, like that which is used in the above two solutions, will bring about disruptive change in the global mCommerce market.
Follow the links below to see how biometircs and mobile commerce shaped last weeks’ conversation in identity management.
Mobile Biometrics Herald Disruptive Change in mCommerce
Alipay Exec: Death of Password in mPayment Imminent
Maybank Chooses Biometrics For Speed
Border Control and Governments
The Department of Homeland Security began testing the long awaited biometric exit initiative in airports last week while we reported that ImageWare Systems sealed a new deal with Lockheed Martin that will see its Biometric Engine integrated with the later’s Identity as a Service platform. Internationally, NEC’s facial recognition technology has been selected to secure 14 airports in Brazil and biometric ID cards are coming to the Economic Community of West African States.
Here’s how governments and border control factored into last week’s news:
DHS Expands Biometric Testing at Airports
NEC to Provide Facial Recognition at 14 Brazilian Airports
ImageWare Biometrics Integrating With Major IDaaS Platform
ECOWAS to Implement Biometric ID Cards
Education
Controversy defined the education news this week stateside as we reported that a San Diego school district canned its mobile biometric student login initiative. Overseas the news was contrasting, with biometric attendance for teachers and students slated to bring biometric efficiency to schools in Andhra Pradesh.
Indian State to Implement Biometric Attendance in Schools
San Diego School District Cancels Biometric Login System
Strong Mobile Authentication
The FIDO Alliance was in the news last week, having welcomed Egis to its board of directors. The fingerprint company has been a long standing member of the Alliance and was showcasing its FIDO Certified technology at the MWC Shanghai conference last week as well.
A new patent describing vascular recognition for a smartwatch was filed by Apple and a new report singled the company out, along with rival Samsung, for driving the fingerprint sensor market. Meanwhile we learned that Dashlane now supports Samsung’s fingerprint biometrics and that the Chinese fingerprint sensor market is heating up in terms of competition.
Huawei Nexus to Feature Fingerprint Biometrics
IC Makers Aggressively Exploring Fingerprint Biometrics
Apple & Samsung Main Market Drivers in Fingerprint Sensors
FIDO Welcomes Egis To Board of Directors
Dashlane Compatible with Samsung Fingerprint Sensors
Vascular Biometrics on the Apple Watch 2?
Biometric Software At Advantage In Phone Security Market
Invisible Biometrics
July is Invisible Biometrics Month at FindBiometrics and last week we took the opportunity to examine how behavioral analytics are helping in the war against malware. In the news, invisible biometrics had a presence too. A new survey weighed in on how consumers feel about facial recognition in retail marketing, while voice biometrics were the focus of two other headlines.
Invisible Biometrics Month: Biometrics Versus Malware
Australian Tax Agency Uses Nuance Tech to Identify Callers
Survey: Shoppers Uncomfortable With Biometric Marketing
Verint Leverages Voice Biometrics in Enterprise Packages
The Consumer Boom
While mobility has done a whole lot of good for consumer adoption of biometric technology, the upcoming Windows 10 operating system will also do its part in the strong authentication boom. Last week we learned about the OS’s official release date as well as how HP has prepared for offer Windows 10 biometric authentication on its notebooks. Meanwhile a new report on the iris biometrics market offered analysis on how consumer applications of the technology are opening up new avenues of growth.
HP Notebooks Have Fingerprint Sensors For Windows Hello
Windows 10, Biometric OS, To Launch July 29
Consumer Tech Opens up Iris Biometrics Market: Report
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July 20, 2015 – by Peter B. Counter