AI use grows among retail stores, New York considers biometrics for liquor sales
Move over passwords and PINs, retail stores are introducing new tech to help shoppers check out their goods, including biometrics…
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.
Amazon takes a small BIPA win; ID scan provider for weed store accused
Biometrics privacy cases in the U.S. state of Illinois continue to bubble to the surface. In the newest U.S. biometrics…
Biometrics firms caught in data privacy complaints turn to arbitration
Short of actually winning a biometrics privacy lawsuit in the U.S. states of Illinois and California there seems only one…
China regulator floats curbs for face biometrics use, data storage
Draft rules for how businesses can and cannot use facial recognition are being aired in China. The proposed rules have…
Vsblty pushes live facial recognition capability of retail analytics portfolio
Vsblty, a company focused on bringing biometrics to retail, is laying out its business plans for the years 2023 and…
Vendor claims 3-year ROI on retail facial recognition deployment
Amid a worrying rise in retail crime, retailers are adopting facial biometrics as a preventive measure. A case study from…
Facewatch caught in more controversy after closed-door meeting with UK Home Office
Biometric security company Facewatch, which has been facing backlash for deploying facial recognition surveillance in retail stores across the UK,…
Retail face biometrics devices roll out in Germany for age checks, China for payments
Biometrics are being deployed in the retail and hospitality industries for automated age estimation, payments and more. ITL has revealed…
Most UK, US execs already on-board for biometrics, about 15% have no adoption plans
A survey by law firm Womble Bond Dickinson indicates that six out of 10 companies in the United Kingdom and…
Historic penalty decision in BIPA case shows the need to take biometric privacy seriously
Biometrics in one U.S. jurisdiction is now officially a live electrical wire dancing on the ground, ready to shock the…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Understanding MOSIP
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection