Coke trials facial recognition vending machines in Australia
In Australia, the vending machines have eyes. Well, 50 of them do. According to a report in Business Insider Australia,…
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.
MasterCard, Bank of Punjab launch biometric social security program
MasterCard, along with the Bank of Punjab, have launched a social security program to automate disbursement, subsidy and assistance programs…
Biometric-Based SIM Verification to Help Improve Pakistan’s Security Concerns
Pakistani Minister for Interior and Narcotics Control Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan announced last Friday that law enforcement agencies will deploy…
IBM Wins Award for Mobile Identity and Access Management Solutions
IBM announced that it was recently awarded with 2014 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Customer Value Leadership, in recognition…
Experts encourage African governments, firms to examine biometric risks
An African biometrics consultancy recently outlined the risks of biometric adoption for African governments and commercial concerns in an article…
Logic PD Tests POS Facial Recognition for Fraud Prevention
Logic PD announced this week that its team of engineers and designers addressed the challenges of identity fraud and highlighted…
NASSIT Intros Biometric Registration System For Pensioners
The National Social Security and Insurance Trust of Sierre Leone (NASSIT) announced on Thursday it has operationalized the Biometric Registration…
Biometrics-Based Airport Processing System to be trialled at Aruba Airport
The Aruba Airport will implement on a trial basis a new biometrics-based passenger processing system developed by Vision-Box at airport…
Six Flags Amusement Parks Implement Biometric Scanners
Some customers at Montreal’s La Ronde amusement park are upset about the park’s decision to implement biometric scanners to curb…
Deloitte survey finds biometrics welcomed for mobile consumer banking apps
Andrews Research recently conducted a survey on behalf of the Deloitte Center for Financial Services on mobile devices and the…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection