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…
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.
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…
Amazon One is coming to all Whole Foods stores
Never mind cashless payments: Whole Foods customers who sign up for Amazon Web Service’s palm payment system can leave their…
Biometric payments grow in fast food, but threatened by online ordering
Biometric scanning’s not uncommon to employees of fast-food restaurants, where they have been used for clock-in and -out. Customers have…
