iWallet Password Uses NEXT Biometrics’ Sensor
iWallet’s new partnership with NEXT Biometrics is already bearing fruit, with a new device resulting from the companies’ collaboration. Called the iWallet…
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First Tech and MasterCard Pilot Biometric Online Payments
US-based First Tech Federal Credit Union is working with MasterCard to test out biometric authentication for online transactions. Over 200 of the credit…
Fingerprint Access Market To Hit $4.41 Billion by 2022
The fingerprint access control market is going to grow considerably over the next several years, according to a new report from Grand View Research. The market…
Nigerian President Calls for Biometric Data Centralization
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is calling on his government’s various agencies to start sharing biometric data. He asserts that the duplicate efforts of…
FBI Goes On Record re: NGI Facial Recognition
The FBI is taking measures to mitigate potential backlash from citizens over its use of facial recognition technology. In a letter to the New York Times, FBI…
CrucialTec Expects 280 Percent Bump in Back Half of Year
South Korea-based CrucialTec is seeing its fingerprint module business buoyed by increasing demand from the smartphone sector. The company says that it expects…
Precise Biometrics Posts Q2 2015 Results
Precise Biometrics has posted its fiscal results for the second quarter of this year. The quarter saw the company improve both its net sales and its net loss.…
Biometric Authentication/ID Market to Hit $25.3 Billion by 2020
The global biometric authentication and identification market will undergo considerable growth over the next five years, according to a new report from BIS…
Platform Authenticates Via Face Biometrics and Social Analytics
A new authentication platform aims to make dating sites and the sharing economy a lot more reliable. Called I Am Real, it combines facial recognition with…
New York, New Jersey DMVs Team Up with Biometrics
New York’s use of facial recognition technology is expanding via a partnership between its Department of Motor Vehicles and that of New Jersey. The two…