Biometric exit technology testing at Atlanta International Airport

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) service kicked off another pilot project today at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International...

BioConnect biometric ID solution provides secure access to London data center

BioConnect has successfully deployed its BioConnect Identity Platform and Suprema biometric hardware for access control at Netwise Hosting ...

Citibank Singapore implementing mobile digital wallets, voice biometrics

Citibank Singapore has been focusing their credit card efforts on mobile e-wallet payments via the Android platform, following last month’s...

Juniper Research study finds biometric authentication key to improving payment security

Juniper Research has released a new study that finds ecommerce merchants and financial institutions will be increasingly investing in onlin...

Alibaba launches app with face recognition lock feature in India

Alibaba has launched Privacy Knight, India’s first free app-lock with a ‘face lock’ feature that allows users to unlock their protected app...

Paytm to launch Indian bank using mobile technology, biometrics

Paytm received a license from the Reserve Bank of India to start India’s first payments bank. The bank intends to use Paytm’s existing user...

Canadian government used facial recognition to detect passport fraudsters

Canada’s Federal government officials revealed they used facial recognition technology to identify 15 suspects wanted on immigration warran...

Synaptics' USB Fingerprint Module Can Add Biometric Authentication to Any PC

Synaptics , the company with a product portfolio of touch, display, and biometrics, has introduced its new biometric solution for PCs. The c...

UK gym chain selects ievo fingerprint readers

UK chain Pump Gyms have upgraded its access control system to include biometrics and selected ievo Ultimate fingerprint readers to solve pr...

Biometrics: An industry view

Can you confirm your postcode ? What’s your mother’s maiden name? What are the first, fourth and fifty-fourth letters of your secret passwor...

Peruvians start applying for biometric passports this week

Peru’s Interior Minister Jose Luis Perez Guadalupe announced this week that citizens are now able to initiate the required procedures to obt...

Encap Security broadens fingerprint support

Financial institution authentication firm Encap Security has announced a new version of its platform that includes support for Android’s fin...

Mastercard confirms major biometrics roll-out

Global payments giant Mastercard has confirmed that it will roll out facial and fingerprint recognition authenticated payments for online pu...

SecuGen to demonstrate new fingerprint reader and OEM sensor at RSA

Fingerprint technology firm–  SecuGen   will be unveiling a new, lower cost fingerprint reader, the Hamster Pro , at the upcoming   RSA Conf...

How safe is voice recognition and fingerprint ID?

HSBC will become the first bank in the UK to roll out voice recognition technology for its telephone banking system to every customer, and i...

Biometric Time and Attendance Systems

Biometric workforce management, or time and attendance systems, are installed in workplaces or institutions that record biometrics to monit...

HSBC brings British banking into biometric era

HSBC is offering more than 15 million of its customers a chance to use fingerprint or voice logins in the first major rollout of biometrics...

Samsung adds fingerprint authentication to new browser

Samsung has released an updated browser for its devices that uses fingerprint authentication for its “secret” mode.  Called Internet 4.0, u...

Samsung SDS to deploy Morpho’s face recognition tech

Biometric firm Morpho has announced that Samsung SDS will implement its online authentication solution based on facial recognition technolo...

Jamaica to add face recognition to passport production

Senior Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) officials have confirmed that Jamaica will add facial recognition capability to ...