A facial recognition payment system extending along a street historically known for shopping in Wenzhou City, China has been deployed…
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.
Sberbank deploys fingerprint payments with grocery chain and reaches biometric registration goal
Russia’s Sberbank has partnered with supermarket chain Azbuka Vkusa to enable customers to pay with fingerprint biometrics at 20 stores…
Panasonic to supply facial recognition and real-time sensing technologies for supply chain solutions
JDA Software and Panasonic have announced a joint partnership to develop integrated solutions based on the JDA Luminate family of…
Insurer claims policy excludes Illinois biometrics lawsuit
An insurance company has asked an Illinois state judge to declare it not responsible for covering a grocery store chain…
Retail automation company launches 3D facial biometric age verification device
Innovative Technology (ITL) has introduced a new product which it says uses intelligent biometric algorithms to verify the age of…
Startup PopCom to provide biometric vending machines for regulated products
Smart vending machine company PopCom has launched a Security Token Offering (STO) to raise up to $943,000 in funding to…
IDScan.net featuring ID authentication and facial recognition tech at NRF 2019
IDScan.net announced it will unveil its latest ID authentication and facial recognition technology at NRF 2019 later this month in…
Google biometric privacy suit dismissed for lack of injury
A lawsuit against Google under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has been dismissed for failing to meet the “concrete…
Chinese home-sharing company to trial facial recognition smart locks for rentals in Chengdu
Xiaozhu, a company providing similar services to Airbnb for the Chinese market, is rolling out smart locks with facial recognition…
EFF urges appeals court to side with plaintiff interpretation of harm in Facebook biometric privacy suit
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging a U.S. appellate court to reject Facebook’s interpretation of the harm criteria of…
