US might have to settle for compromised ID cards
In a development that surprised few paying attention to the U.S. plan to get more-secure IDs in the hands of…
Articles By Jim Nash
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Beta for Google mobile driver’s license app is out
A beta test of Google’s wallet app supporting some mobile U.S. driver’s licenses is out. The beta was announced by…
Patent registered for heart rhythms as biometric ID; researchers work on security
Japanese researchers say they have registered for a United States patent on using electrocardiogram waveforms as a biometric identifier, but…
Billions and billions tied to mobile multi-finger biometric sensors
Numbers like 2.5 billion get attention, especially when talking about how much more secure a biometric scanner can be. That…
Inching closer to the day when a face is all that is needed at world airports
Biometric verification has taken another small step forward in the United States, with the addition of optional cruise-ship debarkation checks…
Unflattering spotlight grows brighter on Chinese biometric surveillance firms
The pressure campaign to get Chinese facial recognition firm Tiandy Technologies on a sanctions or export control list has not…
Rank One gets nod on ISO-IEC biometric PAD standard, wins a school security contract
Facial recognition vendor Rank One Computing says its single-frame passive liveness detection algorithm complies with level 1 ISO-IEC face presentation…
Multi-factor authentication firm Hypr nets $25M in latest round of fundraising
A multi-factor authentication startup closed a $25 million series C1 led by a private equity fund that led a previous…
Consumers in three recent biometric data privacy cases seek class action status
Three proposed U.S. class actions involving alleged biometric privacy violations are churning between Chicago and New Orleans. The defendants are…
US wants to ID travelers in a moving group in 3 seconds with biometrics
In a development that will hearten some, but give the most privacy-minded travelers a second thought about travel-related surveillance, the…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
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