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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.

 

Apple adds smartwatch, biometric payment capabilities to iPhone

After months of rumors and speculation in the press, Apple announced it will soon launch its new Apple Watch, a…

 

LaserLock to provide multi-factor authentication solution to major financial advisor

LaserLock Technologies announced it has signed a deal to license its VerifyMe Identity Services platform to a major financial services…

 

KeyLemon provides eProktor with biometric ID tools for proof of continuous online class attendance

KeyLemon announced that eProktor is using its biometric ID and motion analysis technologies to provide proof of continuous online class…

 

IsItYou debuts facial recognition solution at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2014

IsItYou made its public debut this week, demonstrating its facial recognition solution at TechCrunch’s Disrupt SF 2014, according to a…

 

PayPal adds fingerprint authentication to more Samsung devices

PayPal announced at the Samsung Unpacked Episode 2 event in Berlin, Beijing and New York that it is now allowing…

 

Barclays introduces biometric finger vein reader for customers

Barclays announced it has partnered with Hitachi Europe to launch its customer authentication solution, Barclays Biometric Reader, which is backed…

 

Top biometrics news stories, week ending September 7

Here’s a recap of most popular and noteworthy biometrics industry news that appeared on BiometricUpdate.com this past week. Biometrics Week…

 

Delta ID raises $5M from Intel Capital to advance iris recognition technology

Iris recognition company Delta ID announced it has closed a $5 million Series A financing led by Intel Capital and…

 

Facebook reintroduces facial recognition feature in European Union

Facebook has been quietly restoring elements of its face recognition services in Europe, two years after data privacy advocates removed…

 

Idiap engineers developing vein reading biometric wristwatch

Engineers from the Idiap Research Institute are currently developing a new vein reading biometric watch called BioWatch, enabling users to…

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