New Zealand rolls out biometric privacy code
New Zealand has officially adopted new privacy rules for businesses and organizations that handle biometric data. The Biometric Processing Privacy…
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.
AVPA, PASS collaborate to enable in-person age verification with digital ID
A marquee promise accompanied the UK government’s late 2024 announcement on its digital ID scheme: by Christmas 2025, revelers would…
Countries impose IDV for gambling; Brazilians fine providing selfies
Brazilians are getting used to identity verification with face biometrics according to a new survey, although these attitudes become sharper…
Bangladesh to integrate Unique Business Identity and digital ID for ecommerce companies
The Bangladeshi government will roll out a Unique Business Identity (UBI) under a new Central Complaint Management System (CCMS) to…
Texas and Colorado take diverging paths on biometric privacy
In a rare convergence of legislative action on biometric privacy, both Texas and Colorado are enacting new laws in 2025…
Diebold Nixdorf integrates Yoti age checks with produce recognition for self-checkouts
The biometrics and digital payments industry has seen plenty of facial recognition, and even (at ball games) some hot dog…
Facewatch comes under the public eye again
Biometric security company Facewatch will provide its technology to UK retailer Iceland. News of a new client comes only a…
ITL signs up French reseller for retail biometric age checks
France-based retail technology provider Bergens has been selected by Innovative Technology (ITL) as its authorized reseller in the region for…
Half a million shoplifters can’t be right
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner When Napoleon said that we were a nation of shopkeepers,…
NZ retailers adopt FRT to fight retail crime following privacy commissioner report
A host of major New Zealand retailers are signing up to deploy facial recognition technology in their stores. The bosses…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Understanding MOSIP
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection