Brazil’s Receita Federal has begun testing contactless palm biometrics for traveller authentication at the Friendship International Bridge customs facility in Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná. The pilot uses biometric checks to […]

Neurotechnology’s contactless fingerprint capture technology has met the first-phase qualification requirements of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Fast Capture (FastCAP) program. NIST lists the Lithuanian company among […]

U.S. Special Operations Command has opened an industry collaboration process focused on contactless iris collection. A special notice posted through SAM.gov identifies SOFWERX and USSOCOM’s Program Executive Office for Tactical […]

Biometrics firm Innovatrics has partnered with Boom ID to add contactless palm recognition to Boom ID’s identity authorization platform, targeting the moments after login when an organization needs to confirm […]

Austria has presented a smartphone-based system for contactless fingerprint capture, already in use by its police, at a United Nations event on the responsible use of biometrics in border and […]

MetaOptics has begun shipping evaluation units of a 5G smartphone built around its metalens optics, including a contactless module the company says reads a high-resolution 3D fingerprint through the display. […]

Hungarian border authorities have launched a pilot program to test contactless biometric capture at Schengen border points, working with German startup IDloop and the country’s Border Policing Innovation Program (HIP). […]

The Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) is adding palm vein biometrics to its national biometric performance testing and certification program. The addition makes palm vein (dorsal hand vein recognition) […]

The authority managing India’s foundational Aadhaar identity program is taking new steps to fortify the world’s largest biometric system against emerging threats, launching an initiative to source domestically developed technologies […]

Identy.io has earned some validation from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) after submitting its fingerprint matcher to the Proprietary Fingerprint Template Evaluation III (PFT III) on […]