New Thai Immigration System Catches Eight Fake Passports in First Three Days
Thailand’s Immigration Police have arrested eight people in just three days after activating a new biometric system at the country’s 16 international airports.…
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Facebook Gives More Users an ‘Off’ Switch for Facial Recognition
The ongoing controversy about the public use of facial recognition technology may have given Facebook a little chill in recent months, with the company…
Intel Core i5 Processor to Power Face Biometrics at 2020 Olympics
“Organizers of the 2020 Olympics and Paralympic Games formally announced their plans for a security system based on facial recognition about a month ago.”…
BioCatch Encourages US to Adopt a More Dynamic Definition of Identity
Endeavor Worldwide CEO Patrick Hearn has written a guest article for BioCatch that details some of the shortcomings of the US government’s approach to…
California Legislature Approves 3-Year Moratorium on Police Use of Face-Scanning Body Cams
“It’s worth noting that this latest state legislation is concerned specifically with the use of facial recognition technology through police-worn body…
FPC Survey Finds Broad Support for Contactless Biometric Payment Cards
Fingerprint Cards (FPC) has conducted a poll of banks and consumers in an effort to learn more about their views about financial security and the prospects for…
Behavioral Analytics Specialist Gets FIDO2 Server Certification
Portland-based behavioral analytics specialist Acceptto has attained FIDO Alliance certification with respect to the FIDO2 server protocol. This means…
TSYS Debuts New Real-Time Authentication Platform
TSYS has released a new real-time authentication tool that uses machine learning and behavioral analytics to evaluate every interaction between a customer and…
Is Palm Biometrics on the Way to Future iPhones?
Having pioneered smartphone fingerprint scanning and facial recognition, Apple may turn next to palm reading as an additional biometric modality, suggests a…
Rockwell Automation Teams With Nymi For Wearable Biometric Authentication
Nymi is teaming up with Rockwell Automation to bring secure biometric authentication to the latter’s ThinManager platform. Rockwell will specifically be…