BiometricUpdate.com published in Times of London biometrics supplement

February 27, 2013
Stephen Mayhew

Special reports producer, Raconteur Media, published its latest report on biometrics in The Times of London Monday, and BiometricUpdate.com is proud to have contributed. BiometricUpdate.com online editor Adam Vrankulj authored “Blame Bad Policy Not The Technology” and discussed how the use of biometrics in the public sector is on the rise, despite concern over infringement of privacy and civil liberties. Rawlson King, contributing editor at BiometricUpdate.com, authored “Make Way For Knobbly Kneed ID… Or Who’s This Ear?“, an article about

BiometricUpdate.com parent company quoted in Ottawa Citizen article

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February 5, 2013
Stephen Mayhew

Rawlson King, Biometrics Research Group Inc. (parent company of BiometricUpdate.com) contributing editor, was quoted in an article about surveillance in the weekend edition of the Ottawa Citizen newspaper. Reporter Ian MacLeod examines what surveillance means for our privacy, and interviewed King about the impact of big data on privacy and personal security implications. “Technology is emerging that allows us to be tracked at unprecedented rates by law enforcement and intelligence agencies without effective oversight,” says King. “I’m not conspiratorial but

Biometric technology of the future, today

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January 22, 2013
Millind Borkar

“The future is in the palm of your hand.” It’s a saying we’ve all heard before. Today, it is truer than ever thanks to the proliferation of biometric technology. Moreover, the future is not only in the palm of your hand, but also in the details of your iris, fingertips and facial structure. What does this biometric innovation mean for us? Thanks to real-time biometric identification, I imagine we’ll soon be able to quickly and securely get cash from an

What a Biometric Template is

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November 28, 2012
Ravi Das

Apart from the social perspective of the need to protect Biometric Templates, from a technical perspective as well, there is also a need fortify the security of Biometric Templates. Before this is discussed, it is first important to review what a Biometric Template really is. It is a snapshot of our physical or behavioral is what is being captured or analyzed. This could be an image ranging from the shape of your hand to your finger, to your eye, and

Biometric commercial deployments require human factor engineering expertise

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November 28, 2012
John Trader

Biometrics as a global industry is evolving rapidly. With each passing day, more news sprouts up about countries adopting biometric identification technology to secure borders, establish free and fair elections, or tighten airport security. Countries like India have embarked on massive identity campaigns to develop documentation that helps facilitate more equitable social benefit distribution and eliminate government waste and corruption. Governments all over the planet are increasingly evaluating and choosing to adopt biometric identification technology to boost security, eliminate fraud,

Debunking the top 5 myths of biometrics

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November 28, 2012
Ravi Das

I have personally been in the Biometrics industry for a very long time, it has been over a decade. Throughout these years, I have had my own businesses, ranging all the way from selling actual Biometric hardware, such as the iris scanners, hand geometry scanners, and even the fingerprint scanners, to now offering technical writing services about all of these technologies. I am a very active blogger as well, and blog almost every day. Throughout these years of being in

BiometricUpdate.com launches new bloggers section

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November 28, 2012
Stephen Mayhew

BiometricUpdate.com is excited to announce the launch of our new BiometricUpdate.com bloggers section. We’ve invited some of the top thought leaders from the biometric community to share their perspectives and opinions on some of the freshest stories and hot topics facing the biometrics community today. Our first bloggers are: John Trader, M2SYS John is a public relations and marketing manager with M2SYS and recognized industry leader in biometric management technology with deployments in more than 90 countries. He is the