If or when the internet transitions into the Metaverse — something Facebook is already working towards — the amount of…
Commercial Applications
Biometrics are used in retail and customer-facing settings for point-of-sales services such as payments, access control in systems for purposes such as shoplifting prevention, and identification or characteristic analysis for personalization or customer insights. Access control systems are also increasingly used for automated commercial applications, such as hotel check-ins. Typically, these use palm vein, fingerprint, iris recognition, facial recognition.
Jail for biometric data privacy violations in Baltimore? More class actions settled for millions
There is nothing to say that the United States has to have a coherent set of standards for the use…
Biometric privacy rules come to NYC
America’s latest biometric privacy law went into effect in New York City on July 9. While state laws have largely…
Biometric claims processing by Malawi health insurance firm yields progress one year on
MacDonald Wella, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of WEMAS, a Malawian health insurance firm which uses biometrics to process insurance…
Businesses are closely watching four biometric privacy cases that could knock the wind from BIPA
Will employers get their first win against Illinois’ landmark biometrics law? The second half of the year is expected to…
Biometric POS market to grow at over 35 percent CAGR; Telpo updates terminal
The global market for biometric point of sale (POS) terminals could increase by $1.17 billion between 2020 and 2025, according…
Try-on facial recognition apps land cosmetics firms in court
There was a day when try-on makeup apps were a gleaming promise of the coming Internet Age. But like an…
U.S. pols probe Uber, Lyft about facial recognition tech facing riders
Biometric privacy is not something most U.S. consumers worry — or even know — about yet, but news of facial…
Biometric payment technology changing restaurant experience for guests
Constraints brought about by the coronavirus pandemic have led to significant changes in the way restaurant guests get access to…
Watching the ride-hailing watchers with computer vision tablets
A freshly minted public company is one step closer to getting its facial recognition software in ride-hail fleets to record…
