Frost & Sullivan forecasts biometric wearables to transform driving experience by 2025
Frost & Sullivan Intelligent Mobility has released a new report entitled ‘Biometrics in the Global Automotive Industry, 2016–2025‘, which forecasts…
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.
Inventor designs vehicle breathalyzer that requires biometric authentication
In an effort to make in-vehicle breathalyzers more effective, an inventor from Las Vegas has designed the SAFETY WHEEL, a…
Lawsuit filed against Snapchat for using biometric data without consent
Two men filed a class-action lawsuit against Snapchat under a 2008 Illinois state law that requires a company to obtain…
Facebook request to dismiss privacy lawsuit rejected
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, a federal judge has rejected Facebook’s request to dismiss a potential…
Biometrics Institute continues work on proposed Privacy Trust Mark
The Biometrics Institute has been working with Lockstep Consulting on a proposed Privacy Trust Mark since early 2015 and stage…
Shutterfly settles facial recognition lawsuit
According to a report by the Chicago Tribune, a lawsuit brought by an Illinois man who accused Shutterfly of violating…
Privacy advocates continue to reject facial recognition code of conduct
The National Telecommunication and Information Administration, a division of the U.S. Department of Commerce, has developed a consultation process to…
NTIA near producing draft of facial recognition code of conduct
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will convene a meeting of organizations involved in the privacy multi-stakeholder process focused…
Retailers use of facial recognition technology raises concerns
Consumers and privacy experts are raising concerns about the extent of surveillance in some high-end retail stores and what is…
Google accused of violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act
Google has become the latest technology firm to face legal action after being accused of violating the 2008 Illinois Biometric…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection