Gambling embraces digital ID and biometric payments
The European gaming industry has voiced its support for the EU’s digital identity scheme. In a dated post on its…
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.
Chinese official says facial recognition in hotels is hurting tourism
A top Chinese tourism official wants the country’s hospitality industry to pull back on facial recognition and prioritize the privacy…
New executive order from Biden on rules for vouchsafing personal data
U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to issue an executive order calling for more action to protect people’s data privacy….
Retail facial recognition trials in Australia spark accuracy, privacy and bias concerns
Facial recognition is now being trialed in retail in Australia to curtail crime and streamline the customer experience, in addition…
Busy start to the year for BIPA could get busier with genetics lawsuits
The U.S. state of Illinois’ biometrics privacy law makes winners and losers in equal measure and today’s no different. Here…
Survey sees US consumer confidence fall for biometrics
Unease with business use of biometrics data appears to be settling in for U.S. consumers. Marketing statistics published by GetApp,…
New Zealand grocery stores adding facial recognition, police want open discussion
Facial recognition is entering New Zealand’s grocery stores and the rapid expansion of the technology has been filling the country’s…
Size is beginning to matter a lot to Meta in data privacy court cases
Every company that’s ever been sued has had to decide what outcome is too painful for the owners to bear…
NZ shops trial facial recognition in response to retail crime
The New Zealand grocery cooperative Foodstuffs North Island announced it is implementing facial recognition in 25 of its New World…
Privacy group says data protections by US states differ greatly
Looking at the rising number of biometric privacy bills being floated by U.S. states, some civil liberties advocates are concerned…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Injection Attack Detection
- Understanding MOSIP
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection