Valencell granted two new patents for biometric data sensors
Valencell has been granted two new patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, both of which relate to…
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.
Majority of U.S. citizens willing to share biometrics for fast travel: Accenture survey
Accenture has just released the results from a new survey, which has found that a majority of U.S. citizens are…
Civil liberties groups reject IBIA biometric “best practices” recommendations
The International Biometrics and Identification Association (IBIA) recently issued a “best practices” document listing numerous recommendations on how to best…
Barclays rolls out voice biometrics for telephone banking
British bank Barclays will soon be rolling out a voice recognition system, provided by Nuance Communications, which verifies customers based…
Top biometrics news stories, week of June 22
Biometrics Week in Review: New biometrics testing facility, Facebook rejects biometrics, Nuance Communications, biometrics market valuation, Aadhaar and NPR, biometric…
Facebook rejects biometrics to embrace QR codes
Facebook engineer Gregg Stefancik has stated that he would like his company to eventually move away from using passwords, but…
CLEAR to launch biometric security fast-pass system at Las Vegas airport
CLEAR will introduce its biometrics security fast-pass system at Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport later this summer, making McCarran the…
Palm vein payments startup Quixter recognized at PayExpo
Biometric payments startup Quixter uses palm vein biometrics to authenticate users, and just this past week it was picked as…
IdentityX launches update with Apple Touch ID fingerprint biometric integration
IdentityX has just launched a major system update with support for Apple’s biometric Touch ID fingerprint technology. According to the Daon…
Net1 recoups additional implementation costs from SASSA for biometric registrations
Net1 UEPS Technologies has announced that it has received approximately $25.7 million from the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA), in relation…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection