There are major discrepancies in awareness levels between retailers and online consumers when asked about EU’s Payment Services Directive 2…
Commercial Applications
The commercial application of biometrics refers to biometric systems in retail and customer-facing settings. This includes point-of-sale and payments, access control and identification. Typically, these use palm vein, fingerprint, iris recognition, facial recognition with retail-based systems.
Vsblty partners with Sensormatic as research shows retail biometrics growth
Software technology company Vsblty has signed a global reseller agreement with Sensormatic Solutions, part of Johnson Controls, to deliver biometric…
VR Office Place launches real time facial recognition, social fingerprint analysis to collect online footprint
VR Office Place has announced a real time facial recognition and social fingerprint analysis solution that can be deployed by…
What businesses need to know about the Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act
This is a guest post by Ana Tagvoryan, Jeffrey N. Rosenthal and David J. Oberly, attorneys at Blank Rome LLP….
Designing a defense: strategies for defending against an Illinois biometric class action
This is a guest post by Ana Tagvoryan, Jeffrey N. Rosenthal and David J. Oberly, attorneys at Blank Rome LLP….
Biometrics are in and anonymity out so fight for democratic rights, FedID keynote argues
Civil libertarians should not fear facial recognition and other biometrics, but the technologies must be correctly regulated to prevent negative…
Rights groups urge Scotland to grant Biometrics Commissioner broad oversight mandate
A coalition of rights advocacy groups has called on Scotland’s government to expand the scope of the proposed biometrics commissioner…
NIST sees drastic improvement in facial biometrics accuracy as market grows
Biometric facial recognition technology has improved “spectacularly,” with error rates for the top products estimated by the biometrics testing project…
Clear to provide biometrics for concessions purchases at New York’s Citi Field
Clear will provide biometrics for automated concession stands at Citi Field through a partnership with the New York Mets, food…
Chamber of Commerce urges dismissal of biometric privacy suit against Facebook
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and others have stepped up in support of Facebook’s attempt to have a class action…
