Ghanaian Health Insurance Authority begins biometric capture pilot exercise
The National Health Insurance Authority in Ghana has just begun an exercise to register the biometrics of its subscribers for the…
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Budget amendment could see Ohio casinos equipped with facial recognition
Under an amendment recently added to the proposed Ohio state budget, facial recognition cameras would be allowed at casinos in…
Biometric authentication provides better device security: report
According to the latest research report from Heavy Reading, biometric authentication provides superior device security. “Today’s phones already enable contactless…
NeoFace identifies Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in MSU marathon bombing simulation study
NEC’s NeoFace facial recognition software was recently able to identify Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a suspect from the recent Boston Marathon Bombing, from footage of…
Sweden looks to Cybercom for e-identification system
IT security specialist Cybercom Group has won a contract to provide e-identification services to Sweden. The contract runs for three years, with…
Global biometric readers market set for growth: report
The international market for biometric readers is expected to grow at a CAGR of 17.1 percent between 2012-2016, according to…
Premature iris scanning stops Florida school district school bus safety system
A flurry of confusion around parental consent and the completion of a contract has prevented Stanley Convergent Security Solutions from deploying…
Orbeus launches Rekognition, avoids Google Glass facial recognition ban
The Google Glass facial recognition saga continues. A new service, called Rekognition has recently been launched by San Francisco-based computer vision…
Getin Bank turns to Hitachi finger vein technology for authentication
Poland’s Getin Bank has announced that it is implementing Hitachi’s finger vein biometric authentication system in its new branch network….
Venu Govindaraju elected SPIE fellow
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics has elected University at Buffalo researcher Venu Govindaraju a fellow of the organization, citing…
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