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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.

 

UK government developing ‘trust framework’ for commercial use of personal data

The UK government is currently working to develop a framework designed to encourage businesses to be more transparent in the…

 

CSC report finds that 25% of U.K. retailers use facial recognition in store

Business solutions and services provider CSC released a new report entitled “Next generation in-store technology: Where do shoppers and retailers…

 

New biometrics market research from TechNavio and Hexa Research

TechNavio has published two separate reports about the global hand geometry biometrics market and the biometrics market in BRIC countries,…

 

NEC keynote to address facial recognition for hotel security

NEC will open the first ever TecSec Summit on September 28 as part of The Hotel Show Dubai, held at…

 

Biometrics and healthcare, rapid DNA, fingerprint authentication for mobile banking & more top stories

Here is a recap of the most popular biometrics industry news that appeared on BiometricUpdate.com this past week. Biometric healthcare…

 

IdentoGO expands identity services through H&R Block partnership

IdentoGO, an identity service operated by MorphoTrust USA, announced it has partnered with H&R Block to co-market a range of…

 

Biometrics and privacy, fingerprint recognition in schools, online fraud trends and more top stories this week

Here is a recap of the most popular biometrics industry news that appeared on BiometricUpdate.com this past week. Aadhaar court…

 

Biometrics for finance applications revenue to reach $2.2B by 2024

Tractica announced it has published a new report titled “Biometrics for Finance Applications”, which examines the global market for biometrics…

 

Global biometrics market report: banking, financial services and insurance sector

Infiniti Research Limited has published a new report titled “Global Biometrics Market in BFSI Sector 2015-2019”, which forecast the market…

 

Uber pressured by California officials to implement fingerprint checks for drivers

California officials have demanded ride-sharing firm Uber to start using law enforcement fingerprint checks in Los Angeles, Sacramento and San…

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