WTTC moving quickly to solve travel infrastructure crunch with harmonized biometric traveler identity
The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) is very busy. It advocates for all of the companies that participate in…
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.
Qantas announces trial of end-to-end facial recognition air travel system
Qantas Airways has announced it will trial an end-to-end facial recognition security system for passengers departing from Sydney Airport, beginning…
New California privacy law restricts sharing of biometrics and other personal data
California legislators have headed off tough proposed privacy legislation by unanimously passing the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 9…
Blink and you’ll miss it: The mass-market adoption of facial verification in business
This is a guest post by Husayn Kassai, CEO and co-founder of Onfido. Who are you? And how can you…
FaceFirst launches facial recognition solution for retail return fraud prevention
FaceFirst has launched retail return fraud prevention product Fraud-IQ to provide brick-and-mortar stores with an added layer of intelligence for…
Lawyers urge New York businesses to employ best practices for biometric data as law evolves
As New York State’s proposed “Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security” (SHIELD) Act is considered by state legislators, businesses…
The future of facial recognition technology in theme parks and attractions
This is a guest post by Dan Maunder, CTO of Picsolve. It was only eleven years ago that Steve Jobs…
Jumio launches e-book to help companies vet data processors for GDPR compliance
Most businesses on both side of the Atlantic are “woefully unprepared” for GDPR, and may not even realize their responsibilities…
Customers of new Alipay “Future Pharmacy” pay with facial recognition
Alipay has launched its first “Future Pharmacy,” which allows customers to pay with facial biometrics, TechNode reports. The new retail…
Etron supplying visual sensor modules to self-service Alibaba store
Alibaba online payment arm Ant Financial has adopted 3D wide-angle sensor-based recognition modules from Taiwanese integrated circuit designer Etron for…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection