The global market for retail biometrics is by all accounts in its early stages, and is significantly fragmented between regions….
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USSOCOM, Army look to biometrics industry for new technologies for SOF of the future
A Request for Information (RFI) on methods of continuously authenticating user identity by a person’s distinctive characteristics using software-based biometrics…
FaceTec embraces new ISO-based anti-spoof testing for face biometrics
The rapid global adoption of biometrics for identification and access management by organizations of all sizes clearly indicates they are…
DHS-wide biometrics programs, issues, detailed in data mining report to Congress
The comprehensive, legally mandated new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Privacy Office’s Data Mining Report to Congress provides detailed updates…
Medical biometrics R&D proving to also have wide-ranging security applications
Rapidly advancing mobile-device technologies and information-sharing platforms like “wearable devices,” are hurriedly being developed which can “capture a wide variety…
DHS biometrics expansion to be scrutinized by Privacy Office in new fiscal year
While Congress recently passed legislation imposing potentially expensive – but unfunded –reporting and compliance requirements on Customs and Border Protection…
TSA’s ‘Biometric Roadmap’ may need more funding under new law, former deputy administrator says
While the Transportation Security Administration [TSA] Modernization Act “will guide our efforts to modernize aviation passenger identity verification over the…
TSA unveils its ‘biometrics roadmap’ in wake of legislation requiring more scrutiny
Coming on the heels of the Transportation Security Administration [TSA] Modernization Act — the first ever reauthorization of TSA since…
Legislation puts more scrutiny and analysis on TSA’s expanding use of biometrics
Evaluation of the efficacy, privacy issues, and expanded use of biometrics by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) comprises a not…
Biometrics integration to restore auto makers in the battle for the center console
The display of the Synaptics demo SUV is in the usual place, and not particularly large, but it provides a…
