Anil Jain, an engineering and computer science professor at Michigan State University, has lead a team that developed software which can identify individuals by their fingerprints even if they have had their fingerprints altered, according to a Chron.com article. The software, which has been licensed to biometric technology developer Morpho, is an answer to growing […]

The Monash City Council in Australia has seen recent controversy revolving around new biometric systems at local schools and libraries and is set to debate the decision to use finger vein scanners to track library staff’s payroll, according to a Waverly Leader article. Many councilors are determined to stop the use of the system due […]

The Victory Lutheran College in Victoria, Australia had just started enrollment of students in a biometric check-in system designed to track tardy students when backlash from parents that hadn’t been informed of the new procedures led to suspension of the technology, according to an ABD Goulburn Murray article. Many parents didn’t learn about the system, […]

Lathem, an Atlanta, Georgia-based developer of biometric solutions, has released a new biometric time and attendance tracker that utilizes face recognition as a way for employees to authenticate their identity when clocking in or out for work, according to a Miami Herald article. The solution, called FaceIN, can make a punch to an employee’s time […]

Morpho has announced it is bringing one of its latest biometric offerings to South Africa via its South African distribution partner Ideco Biometric Security Solutions, according to am IT Web article. The new product being introduced to the South African marketplace is the MorphoAccess VP Series, a multimodal physical access control system that utilizes finger […]

The City of Monash Council in Melbourne, Australia has announced plans to implement a biometric employee attendance tracker in a local library to better ensure tardy employees’ time cards are being reported correctly, according to a SC Magazine article. The rollout of the new technology, which is designed around a finger vein scanner developed by […]

Human recognition Systems (HRS), a developer of biometric technology, has announced they will be demonstrating its suite of MFlow products that are designed for use in aviation settings at the Transport Security Expo event in Olympia, London on the 13th and 14th of September. The purpose of the demo is to show attendees how the […]

Researchers from the Queensland University of Technology’s School of Engineering are looking into the viability of using soft biometrics, such as estimated height, weight, hair, skin color and other simple descriptors with video surveillance systems in hopes of developing a new way to automatically identify individuals of interest via simple surveillance, according to an article […]

AuthenTec has announced its TCEFC1 TouchChip module with TCS1 TouchChip fingerprint sensor has been chosen to be incorporated into fellow biometric technology developer BI2 Technology’s new multifactor solution. The new solution from BI2 is called the Mobile Offender Recognition and Identification System (MORIS) and is designed for use by police personnel to assist with identification […]

Garden Fresh Restaurants, a buffet-style restaurant chain, has implemented a fingerprint-based authentication system from DigitalPersona at each of its point-of-sale (POS) systems in an effort to control access and improve accountability with their registers, according to a Security Director News article. While not the only security measure implemented in the year since the solutions were […]