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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.

 

Dermalog wins Frost & Sullivan’s biometrics award for achievements in Africa

German biometrics manufacturer Dermalog Identification Systems announced it has been rewarded Frost & Sullivan with the “2015 African Biometrics Company…

 

Biometrics in healthcare, mobile authentication, Aadhaar, Biometrics2015 and more top stories

Here is a recap of the most popular biometrics industry news that appeared on BiometricUpdate.com this past week. Biometrics 2015:…

 

Columbus schools to deploy fingerprint authentication in cafeterias

The Westerville City School District Food Service Department is slowly deploying biometric finger scanning at several of schools throughout the…

 

Biometrics 2015: A Q&A with Biometrics Institute CEO Isabelle Moeller

The Biometrics Institute is carefully planning the upcoming Biometrics 2015: Secure Identity Solutions Now!, held October 13 – 15 at…

 

Biometrics and privacy laws, fingerprints, facial recognition & more top stories

Here’s a recap of the most popular biometrics industry news that appeared on BiometricUpdate.com this past week. Iris recognition Virginia…

 

States considering biometrics capture laws may look to Illinois privacy laws

Recent class action lawsuits filed against Facebook and Shutterfly are the first to test the Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act,…

 

Hong Kong’s Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data updates biometrics guidelines

Hong Kong’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) has updated its guidelines regarding the collection and use…

 

Shutterfly calls for dismissal of lawsuit involving facial recognition database

Shutterfly is requesting a federal judge in Illinois to throw out a lawsuit that alleges the photo-book service is violating…

 

Netchoice calls NTIA facial recognition meeting “extremely productive”

NetChoice, an association of eCommerce businesses and online consumers, called last week’s National Telecommunications & Information Administration’s facial recognition meeting…

 

Biometrics in border control, aviation, financial services & more top stories

Here’s a recap of the most popular biometrics industry news that appeared on BiometricUpdate.com this past week. Australian to deploy…

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