Yoti reveals planned facial age verification for major retailer in first birthday update
Yoti Age Scan will soon provide AI age estimation at self-checkouts for one of the largest retailers in the world,…
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.
Tapway launches biometric business intelligence system for physical stores
Business intelligence startup Tapway has launched a facial recognition product to provide customer identity information and analytics to physical business…
Illinois Supreme Court Justices sceptical of defendant position on harm in biometric privacy suit
At least three of seven Illinois Supreme Court justices appear to be sceptical of the position expressed in oral arguments…
Illinois Supreme Court to hear oral arguments in key biometric data privacy suit
Illinois’ Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in a case which could set the precedent for whether technical violations of…
Autonomous retail startup Standard Cognition raises $40 million in Series A funding
AI machine vision retail payments startup Standard Cognition[https://standard.ai/] has raised $40 million in a Series A funding round, and plans…
Many biometric class action lawsuits could depend on Illinois Supreme Court harm ruling
There are approximately 100 class actions alleging violations under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) that could be significantly affected…
“Smile-to-Pay” facial recognition system now at 300 locations in China
Yum China has announced that it has extended its “Smile-to-Pay” facial recognition payment system to more than 300 KFC locations…
Biometric retail technology is ready for its close-up; but are shoppers ready for it?
The global market for retail biometrics is by all accounts in its early stages, and is significantly fragmented between regions….
Incoming attorney general vows to protect Illinois’ biometric privacy legislation
The incoming Attorney General of Illinois, Kwame Raoul, says he will push back against any attempt to weaken the state’s…
Sodexo Ventures invests in self-checkout system based on AI image recognition
Sodexo’s strategic venture capital vehicle, Sodexo Ventures, has invested in AEYE-GO, a Chinese startup focusing on computer vision and artificial…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection