NYC grocery stores fight proposed facial recognition ban
Grocery store owners in New York City oppose a bill that would limit use of facial recognition software, saying the…
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.
UK retailer uses ITL biometrics to verify age as teen vaping risks pile up
A Bestway Retail convenience store in the city of Southampton has installed facial biometrics-based age estimation software and hardware designed…
US feds to biometrics collectors: Knock it off. We mean it
United States regulators have taken time to, in a local figure of speech, brush businesses that deal in biometric data…
Recreation robots use face biometrics to serve humanity in US, Costa Rica
The AC Marriott hotel in Escazú, Costa Rica, reportedly is using robotics that can scan faces to interface with guests,…
New Yorkers sue Amazon, Starbucks over biometrics use in cashierless stores
Amazon and coffee retailer Starbucks are being sued in U.S. federal district court for misusing customers’ biometric identifiers. The proposed…
Streamlined data privacy rules for businesses nearer for US, UK
The United Kingdom is closer to replicating with the U.S. a biometrics data sharing agreement it signed with South Korea…
Microsoft to pay $20M fine for collecting kids’ biometrics on Xbox
Microsoft has been fined $20 million over allegations by U.S. regulators that they collected biometrics and other personal data from…
New US state law narrows its privacy targets for children online
The U.S. state of Florida is next to pass legislation giving people more control over their information, including biometric data….
Legal wrangling over legal wrangling in 3 US biometric privacy cases
Three U.S. biometric privacy court cases are in the news, although they are about how to handle the cases, not…
US states closely watching federal rule changes on biometrics
Amazon lost two notable biometrics arguments with a U.S. regulator this week, but they are miniscule compared to analyses that…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Understanding MOSIP
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection