Debunking the top 5 myths of biometrics
I have personally been in the Biometrics industry for a very long time, it has been over a decade. Throughout…
Industry Insights
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BiometricUpdate.com launches new bloggers section
BiometricUpdate.com is excited to announce the launch of our new BiometricUpdate.com bloggers section. We’ve invited some of the top thought…
People fear the future of technological surveillance
People quite rightly fear new forms of state surveillance that might possibly emerge in everyday life. They fear the future…
U.S. military should leverage biometrics to secure critical infrastructure
U.S. defense secretary Leon Panetta has warned about the possibility of a catastrophic “cyber Pearl Harbor” attack against critical American…
FBI will continue to spend billions on biometrics
The adoption of new technologies such as facial recognition and multi-modal biometrics by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation should…
Biometrics beneficial to banking sector
The banking industry has used authentication measures for clients to access their accounts and other banking services, which includes PINs,…
The Trouble with TrapWire
Over the past week, the press and the Twitterverse has been running rampant with stories about TrapWire, the counter-terrorism technology…
Israeli jurists right to call biometric database “extreme” and “harmful”
Last week, the Israeli High Court of Justice held a hearing on a petition seeking the annulment of a law…
Governments need to work on passport, National ID reliability
No two persons are alike. This fact has long been established through extensive biometric research and study. For this reason,…
Barcodes to authenticate quality of food, medicine
In 2003, researchers at the University of Guelph proposed “DNA barcoding” as a way to identify different animal, fish and…
