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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.

 

U.S. surveillance system shopped to national security agencies

New e-mail correspondence released by WikiLeaks reveals that TrapWire, supplier of a controversial U.S. security surveillance system, intended to sign…

 

Germany re-opens Facebook biometric probe

German data privacy authorities have re-opened a probe into Facebook and its use of biometric facial recognition technology to determine…

 

Cross Match launches Web-based biometric application

Cross Match Technologies, Inc., a global provider of biometric identity solutions, recently announced the launch of a new Web-based biometric…

 

Optimum Biometric Labs launches partnership program

Optimum Biometric Labs has developed and launched a comprehensive series of partnership programs for its BioUptime software. BioUptime is a…

 

Empirix provides quality testing for voice biometrics

Contact centers and mobile app developers using voice biometrics to authorize users and voice response can avail themselves of quality…

 

U.S. health insurer to use VoiceVault’s biometrics solution

Your voice is your biometric signature. This is the principle behind the VoiceVault voice biometric e-signature solution.  VoiceVault’s biometric voice-based solutions rely…

 

BiometricUpdate.com to hold first “tweetup”

BiometricUpdate.com is pleased to announce that it will be holding its first monthly Twitter chat on Friday, August 17, 2012…

 

Star Micronics and TazTag announce product integration

Star Micronics America, Inc. in partnership with TazTag recently announced the integration of their products. SM-T300 , one of Star…

 

University in the UK studying the biometrics of walking

The way you walk can make a mark. A study conducted by Dr. Rajshree Mootanah measures just that. It measures…

 

Biometric-based projector uses Microsoft Kinect

The Attjector system, developed by engineers at the University of Munich, is a shoulder-mounted technology that tracks movements made by…

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