O’Hare International Airport in Chicago has unveiled the Known Crew member program that enables airline pilot to bypass security checks or explosives and other prohibited items in an effort to speed up security lines, according to a Chicago Tribune article. While pilots and other crew members are voicing approval of the program as it reduces […]

London’s Heathrow International Airport has announced plans to bring face recognition systems as additional layer of security for those flying internationally, according to a Singularity Hub article. Specifically, the systems are being put into place to ensure the person receiving a boarding pass is the same person who uses the boarding pass as Heathrow’s Terminals […]

GTSI Corp, an information technology systems integrator, has announced that it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Defense that will see the company provide Army personnel with mobile biometric solutions enabling them to better identify persons of interest in the field. The contract, called the Biometric Automated Toolset – Army contract, […]

Developers for mobile technology such as Google’s Android operating system have been trying to bring near field communication (NFC), or a means of utilizing basic authentication and personal devices to pay for items instead of cash or credit cards, according to a technology review article. While such technology has become commonplace in some Asian countries, […]

Social networking site Facebook could be in legal trouble with Germany due to Facebook’s usage of facial recognition technology on uploaded pictures being in violation of the country’s privacy and data protection laws, according to a Guardian article. Johannes Caspar, an official Germany’s data protection sector, has written Facebook demanding the removal of the program […]

A new application for Apple’s iPhone and iPod called FaceCash offers face recognition as a means of identity verification for mobile-based payments made at brick and mortar points of sale, according to an International Business Times New York article. Essentially, what the FaceCash app enables a user to do is replace his credit cards or […]

AuthenTec has announced its AES2660 smart sensor has been incorporated into technology developer Fujitsu’s new STYLISTIC Q550 tablet computer. Further, the sensor, which has been embedded onto the back of the tablet and runs off the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system, offers one-touch security that eases its use to enhance security for mobile computing. Among […]

Shaun Oakes, a biometrics business man, in conjunction with technology developer Design Network North have developed a new fingerprint solution that takes into account some of the issues that fingerprint users regularly encounter, such as unusable fingerprints as well as not being able to work in poor environments such as cold or wet weather, according […]

Finivation Software, a developer of financial technology, has launched its voice biometric authentication solution that is designed to enhance credit union call center security as well as online and mobile banking security. The solution, called VoiceVerify, will be first implemented at the Phoenix-based Desert Schools Federal Credit Union who is hopeful that the new technology […]

Lumidigm has announced it has ported its Mariner line of multispectral fingerprint readers to be compatible with computers running on Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Beyond the multispectral aspect of the sensors, which is capable of reading subsurface aspects of a fingerprint for more accurate authentication and functionality in otherwise poor environments, Lumidigm is touting the […]