South Korean Army Plans Biometric Gun Cabinets and Digital Weapon Locks
South Korea’s Army plans to introduce biometric smart gun cabinets and NFC-based digital locks, replacing physical keys and handwritten records in a long-term…
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GAO Finds Security Gaps in U.S. Port Biometric Credential Program
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has identified gaps in federal oversight of the Transportation Worker Identification Credential program, including a…
Papua New Guinea Maps Progressive Shift to Biometric and Electronic Voting
Papua New Guinea is planning a phased move toward biometric voter identification and electronic voting, beginning with photo-roll trials in selected regions…
South Africa Tenders for 600 Handheld Biometric Devices for Immigration Checks
South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs is seeking a service provider to build a mobile biometric system that would let officials verify a person’s…
Austria Presents Smartphone Contactless Fingerprint System at UN Counter-Terrorism Week
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…
MetaOptics Ships Metalens Smartphone With Contactless 3D Fingerprint Module
MetaOptics has begun shipping evaluation units of a 5G smartphone built around its metalens optics, including a contactless module the company says reads a…
Elementik Launches New ByteSeal Generation Powered by FPC AllKey
Elementik moves its ByteSeal biometric credential vault to FPC’s AllKey platform, upgrading the fingerprint-secured portable hardware device.
NEXT Biometrics Receives Three Public Sector APAC Orders
NEXT Biometrics receives three public-sector orders from Taiwan and Malaysia for FAP20 fingerprint sensors in Q2, expanding its APAC government presence.
FBI Issues RFI for Next Generation Identification Biometric Matching Algorithms
The FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services division has issued a request for information seeking industry input on biometric matching algorithms for its…
ROC Posts Sub-One-Percent Miss Rates on NIST FRIFTE Class B Slap Fingerprint Evaluation
ROC, the US biometrics company formerly known as Rank One Computing, has posted strong results on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Friction…