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Facebook Messenger Users Can Secure Accounts With iPhone Biometrics

July 23, 2020

Social media giant Facebook announced that it has launched biometric authentication for its popular Messenger platform on iPhones and iPads. The new feature — called ‘App Lock’ — allows users […]

Inference Announces Update to Inference Studio with Biometric Voice Recognition Capabilities

April 8, 2020

San Francisco-based Inference Solutions, maker of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), has announced the newest version of its Inference Studio platform including the new Verbatim Audio feature for tuning speech recognition […]

Acquisition and Modality Shift News were Obvious Draws in This Week’s Top Biometrics Stories

August 23, 2019

This week’s collection of top biometrics news stories from FindBiometrics is about as varied as it gets, with topics ranging from WhatsApp security to industry testing to enterprise IoT. But […]

Facebook Asks Indian Supreme Court to Decide on Aadhaar Privacy Issue

August 22, 2019

“This is largely in relation to the WhatsApp messaging app owned by Facebook, through which information deemed to be a public threat can be promulgated.” Facebook wants India’s Supreme Court […]

WhatsApp Finally Bringing Fingerprint Biometric Security to Android

August 16, 2019

“The fingerprint lock feature has been in the works for several months, and brings the Android version of the app closer to its iOS counterpart, which gained Face ID and […]

WhatsApp Enables Touch ID, Face ID Security

February 4, 2019

“…they’ve not only delivered support for fingerprint authentication via the Touch ID system built into older iPhones, but have also delivered a facial recognition option based on the Face ID […]

Fingerprint Biometric Security Reportedly Coming to WhatsApp

January 9, 2019

“Once it officially goes live, users who activate it will be prompted to authenticate with a fingerprint scan every time they open the app.” WhatsApp engineers are working on a […]

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