MasterCard Embraces Tokenization, Biometric Authentication
MasterCard is pushing ahead with new payment security technologies as it fights to stay competitive with alternative transaction tools. The company is now…
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N.Y. State Police Get Fingerprint Biometrics Grants
In a sign of law enforcement authorities’ growing enthusiasm for fingerprint biometrics, agencies from 27 New York counties applied for state grants to…
Fingerprint Sensor Market Continues Ascent
The fingerprint sensor market continues to its ascent and will grow at an annual rate of 17.1 percent until 2020, according to a recent report from Markets and…
Introducing “Mobile Biometrics & The Next Generation of Digital Identity”
October is Mobile Identity Month at FindBiometrics and for the next four weeks we will be placing a featured focus on the intersection of mobility, strong…
FIDO Welcomes German Federal Office for Information Security
The FIDO Alliance announced today that the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) is officially its newest member, having joined up under the…
Kyrgyzstan Concludes Biometric Election
Kyrgyzstan has become the first country in Central Asia to implement biometric polling. The technology was used in the country’s just-concluded national…
HYPR: OPM Hack Attack Shows Dangers of Centralized Data Storage
In the wake of the OPM hacking scandal, HYPR is promoting its security solution as a means preventing such occurrences in the future. In a recent blog post,…
NEC to Showcase Smart City Data Security at GovWare Conference
NEC is planning to promote a new data protection solution at this week’s GovernmentWare (GovWare) conference in Singapore, the company has announced. NEC is…
RBC Introduces Voice Authentication Via Natural Speech
One of Canada’s biggest banks, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), has become the first in the country to introduce real-time voice authentication via natural speech.…
Growth For Biometrics in Smartphones, Banking, Healthcare
There’s major growth in store for biometric technologies in the areas of mobile devices, ATMs, and healthcare, according to ABI Research. In new findings from…