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Google Biometrics News
Biometrics in healthcare, banking and counter-terrorism trending this week
Here is a recap of the most popular biometrics industry news that appeared on BiometricUpdate.com this past week. Healthcare Intent…
| Mar 28, 2016 | Google to make speech recognition API available to developersGoogle announced its plans to enter the competitive voice recognition market by opening up its speech recognition API to third-party… |
| Mar 13, 2016 | Biometrics research, facial recognition, authentication and access control trending this weekHere is a recap of the most popular biometrics industry news that appeared on BiometricUpdate.com this past week. Research and… |
| Mar 8, 2016 | Pentagon establishes Defense Innovation Advisory BoardThe Pentagon has established a new “Defense Innovation Advisory Board” in order to import technological innovation and best practices from… |
| Mar 6, 2016 | Google accused of violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy ActGoogle has become the latest technology firm to face legal action after being accused of violating the 2008 Illinois Biometric… |
| Mar 5, 2016 | Google piloting payment app that uses face biometrics for authenticationGoogle is piloting a new payment app in San Francisco called Hands Free that uses face biometrics for authentication. The… |
| Feb 22, 2016 | Google opens its Cloud Vision API to beta developmentLast week, Google made its beta release of its Cloud Vision API open to the general public. Demonstrably, Google’s Cloud… |
| Jan 28, 2016 | Google, Movidius aims to make smartphones see on their ownGoogle is working with Movidius to incorporate powerful image recognition technology into smartphones. The two companies entered into an agreement… |
| Oct 29, 2015 | Google Photos expands facial recognition tagging feature to international usersGoogle has expanded availability of its facial tagging feature, which was previously only available to U.S. users of its new… |
| Oct 27, 2015 | Google Play Store offering fingerprint option for purchasesGoogle’s Nexus Imprint, the fingerprint authentication feature offered in the new Nexus 5X and 6P smartphones, can also be used… |
| Oct 25, 2015 | Biometrics in banking, fingerprint and iris authentication in this week’s most popular newsHere’s a recap of the most popular biometrics industry news that appeared on BiometricUpdate.com this past week. X-ray camera tech… |
| Oct 20, 2015 | Google updates Android 6.0 requirements for fingerprint sensorsGoogle has updated its Compatibility Definition document for Android 6.0, which details a list of requirements smartphone and tablet manufacturers… |
| Jun 7, 2015 | Fingerprint biometrics and facial recognition most popular this weekHere’s a recap of the most popular biometrics industry news that appeared on BiometricUpdate.com this past week. Fingerprints Once again,… |
| Jun 3, 2015 | Google patents technology that uses contact lenses as an identification deviceGoogle has patented a new technology that transforms a contact lens into an identification device, according to a report by… |
| Jun 2, 2015 | Google uses revamped Nexus 5 with fingerprint scanner to demonstrate Android PayGoogle has posted a new video in which product manager Maya Ben-Ari uses a Nexus 5 smartphone to demonstrate some… |
| Jun 1, 2015 | ATAP division head previews behavioral biometrics system at Google I/OGoogle’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) division has been developing Project Abacus, a behavioral biometrics-based authorization system that detects the… |
| May 29, 2015 | FPC supports fingerprint capabilities with Google’s Android M preview, sees record high stock pricesFingerprint Cards (FPC) has supported Google in the development of fingerprint sensor technology as part of the Android M Developer… |
| Apr 14, 2015 | Google adds voice recognition unlock feature to Android appGoogle is slowly rolling out new voice recognition functionality to its Android Google app, according to a report by Tech… |
| Mar 19, 2015 | Google claims its facial recognition system can achieve near 100 percent accuracyGoogle published a paper detailing its new artificial intelligence system, FaceNet, which Google researchers call the most-accurate technology available for… |
| Mar 3, 2015 | Google developing API layer to support Android mobile paymentsGoogle has announced at Mobile World Congress that it is currently developing a new mobile payment system called Android Pay… |
Google Industry Insights
Google’s BIPA extraterritoriality dismissal provides key lessons
By David J. Oberly, Biometric Privacy & Data Privacy Attorney Utilizing a successful extraterritoriality challenge, Google was recently able to…
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