New Hampshire-based Animetrics, a 3-D facial recognition and identity management provider, has launched ID-Ready, a new touch up system for facial images. The system is geared toward smaller law enforcement departments to help them make facial images suitable for facial recognition systems to be able to use. It works by applying 2D-to-3D algorithms to a [...]

National ID programs have had a big week, as the Nigerian National Identity Managment Commission (NIMC) rolled out a pilot program of 13 million national identity smart cards that have electronic payment capability. The NIMC partnered with MasterCard on the project, which is the largest electronic payment system in Nigeria, and most financially inclusive in [...]

As companies increase their usage of mobile tools in the workforce, biometric authentication could become a common tool for enterprises, reports ZDNet. Biometrics is already helping the problem of security in the digital world by being a second factor in the authentication process. With companies relying on mobile devices–and increasingly BYOD policies–for getting work done, [...]

Marks & Spencer (M&S), the British retailer headquartered in the Westminster, has completed the roll out of contactless payments to 644 of its UK stores, including its railway and airport franchise stores. Now one of the UK’s leading contactless retailers, M&S processes more than 230,000 contactless transactions every week. The technology, provided by Visa Europe, [...]

A new safety mechanism for guns may be coming on the market, leveraging biometrics to authenticate users of weapons. Safe Gun Technology Inc. (SGTi), of Columbus, Ga., is working on a smart technology that gun owners can put on their weapons to ensure that only authorized users for those weapons can actually shoot the gun. [...]

The Federal Reserve recently published an article about the United States’ impending transition to EMV cards, saying that the U.S. may not have enough of a structure in place to reap the benefits of EMV’s capability to fight fraud. In this article, senior economist Richard Sullivan with the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City looks at [...]

Legacy 125-kilohertz proximity technology is still in place at around 70% to 80% of all physical access control deployments in the U.S. and it will be a long time before that changes, says Stephane Ardiley, product manager at HID Global. The above scene, however, is starting to play out more frequently as corporations, educational institutions [...]