National digital IDs are essential, but can they be made secure?
Secure identity credentials are taken for granted by anyone who has had one since secondary school, but they are fundamental…
Articles By Jim Nash
Jim Nash is a business journalist. His byline has appeared in The New York Times, Investors Business Daily, Robotics Business Review and other publications. You can find Jim on LinkedIn.
Rapid fingerprint test for drugs might detect COVID-19
Executives at a biometrics firm in England say their portable fingerprint-reading technology could be used to diagnose COVID-19 in 10…
Using structures as biometric sensors
If almost any aspect of a person can be a biometric signal, perhaps almost anything can be a biometric sensor,…
Hacking biometrics and device IDs together is possible and dangerous: research
New research indicates that it is possible to secretly build rich profiles of people in highly connected homes and other…
Airport security wants a good look at travelers … from a distance
New biometrics systems and security protocols are being assembled in Australia in anticipation of the eventual return of normal air…
Looking for biometric bias in the guts of AI
A group of biometrics researchers in Spain say they have come up with a new, more efficient way to detect…
The first mistake: Confusing cool automation with useful automation
Much has been written about the Japanese hotel company that, five years ago, began assembling a staff roster that was…
Privacy as a human right gets lip service. A report shows a different path
A report out of Harvard University warns that global society naively seems to expect artificial intelligence to grow benignly, on…
High-fashion, high-privacy glasses touted
An entrepreneur is developing a small line of eyewear designed to shade the wearer’s eyes or entire face from facial…
Speech recognition for kids draws $6.3M
A specialized voice technology startup in Ireland just closed a €5.8 million ($6.3 million) round, and executives say they are…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
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- Online Age Assurance
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