Biometric Airport Automation to See 20% CAGR Through 2022: Acuity
“The age of seamless international travel has arrived. Integrated, frictionless passenger facilitation is the next wave of biometric automation for expedited…
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2020 Olympics Organizers Announce Biometric Security System
“NEC’s NeoFace system will be used to identify authorized individuals, including athletes, staff, and volunteers, seeking entry into venues such as the…
INTERVIEW: Caryn Seidman Becker, Co-Founder and CEO, CLEAR
The biometric border control market has been growing for nearly 20 years, with recent innovations in strong authentication technologies spurring impressive…
FIDO2 Authentication Comes to Microsoft Edge in Build 17723
Microsoft has officially announced that FIDO2-based web authentication has come to its Edge browser. First announced this April, the FIDO Alliance’s latest…
How IDEX is Reinventing the Credit Card
The Next Step in FinTech The credit card is being reinvented, and plastic is going to make a comeback in the ongoing payments race. Thanks to the rise in…
Iris Research Brings New Meaning to ‘Liveness Detection’
“They trained their deep learning system on a database of 574 near-infrared post-mortem images, as well as a database of 256 images of irises from live…
ECG Biometrics Could Bring Strong Authentication to the Connected Car
“…the companies outlined a range of potential uses for such a system, including assessing driver alertness, administrating access control for vehicle features…
NIST Lays Groundwork for New DNA Analysis Method
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers are working on a new approach to DNA matching that could enhance the capabilities of forensic…
BRIEF: Society Begins to Grapple with Ethics of Biometrics
Like pretty much any other groundbreaking technology, biometrics has long carried the promise of great social benefit and the risk of potential abuse. It has…
Facial Recognition Goes to Summer Camp
A new service is letting parents more efficiently keep tabs on their kids while they’re away at summer camp, with biometric technology. Summer camps tend to…