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.
Pennsylvania-based hospital housekeeping company Xanitos Inc. is the latest company hit with a potential class-action law suit under Illinois’ Biometric…
Lenovo has opened an unstaffed convenience store which uses facial recognition to automatically charge customer accounts for the items they…
The new Dallas location of Walmart-owned member’s only retailer Sam’s Club will include more than 700 cameras, and be a…
India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued notification to the country’s mobile network operators that Aadhaar-based digital authentication for eKYC…
The Internet Association has thrown its support behind Facebook in its ongoing BIPA lawsuit over the social media platform’s faceprint…
Retail self checkout machine maker NCR has announced the integration of facial recognition technology from Yoti with its “FastLane” tills,…
A suit against Six Flags Entertainment Corp. for violating the consent requirements of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) is…
A New York City councillor is planning to introduce legislation which would require businesses using facial recognition technology to disclose…
Chicago is considering amending its municipal code to allow businesses licensed by the Chicago Police Department (CPD) to collect and…
The United States Tennis Association (USTA) has an unusual motivation for the use of facial recognition reported by ESPN; identifying…
