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Tencent to launch online stock trading platform with facial recognition authentication

Chinese internet service portal Tencent will soon launch an online stock trading platform with a facial recognition authentication system on…

 

U.S. Congressman visits Crossmatch to learn how biometrics can help protect data

Crossmatch announced that U.S. Congressman Mike Honda (D-Silicon Valley) visited its headquarters yesterday to learn firsthand how technologies such as…

 

Bid protests continue in delayed DHS biometrics contract

In what has felt like a never-ending bidding process, hindered by multiple procurement delays, the Department of Homeland Security has…

 

EyeVerify technology uses smartphone cameras to easily verify ID by eye veins

The iris and retina aren’t the only useful eye-based biometrics available. The veins in the whites of the eye, the…

 

Department of Defense employing biometrics and MFA to curb cyberattacks, say security experts

The Department of Defense is implementing new security measures including multifactor authentication and biometrics to make it harder and more…

 

New report offers forecasts for facial recognition market 2015 – 2022

Transparency Market Research has released a new report that offers insights and forecasts for the global facial recognition market from…

 

Researchers find major security flaws in fingerprint sensors in Android phones

FireEye’s research team has uncovered major security flaws in Android smartphones that feature fingerprint sensors which they say make them…

 

Sensory releases major update to its TrulyHandsfree speech recognition platform

Sensory Inc. announced it has released TrulyHandsfree 4.0, the latest version of the company’s embedded small-footprint voice user interface platform….

 

Synaptics collaborates with Microsoft on biometric fingerprint authentication

Synaptics Inc. has collaborated with Microsoft to provide biometric fingerprint authentication and TouchPad technologies on Windows 10. Following a thorough…

 

EFF, MuckRock conduct census of how police deploy mobile biometric technologies

EFF and MuckRock have partnered to conduct a census of sorts, via public records requests, in an effort to compile…

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