The Philippine House of Representatives has passed a bill that would require the use of biometric authentication of individuals for voter registration as well as the actual voting process in the country, according to a NewsBytes Philippines article. The hope behind the bill is that it will serve as a basis for moving the country […]

Northrop Grumman has announce a follow-on task order to continue its work with the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), according to a UPI article. The new contract, which is valued at $141 million, has Northrop for a one year providing systems engineering, software development, infrastructure, performance engineering, modeling […]

The Malaysian Government is considering utilizing facial recognition in conjunction with an automated plate number recognition system in an effort to enhance crime prevention in the country, according to an article from The Malay Mail. The country’s police force would be acting as the lead government group in the introduction of the technology though other […]

The Internet can be a funny thing and sometimes mistakes are made. This is one of those times. This Web post, “Academics say too much uncertainty in biometrics to be dependable,” is based on a news article that misconstrued the original research. The research states that lab tests don’t always translate to the real world […]

The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) in Arizona has announced it has received four iris scanners for enrolling and identifying inmates at the Pinal County Jail as well as biometrically tracking and monitoring registered sex offenders living in the county, according to a San Tan Valley Today article. The scanners, which come from biometric technology […]

Cross Match Technologies has announced it has reached an agreement with the Argentine Government to support the deployment of various biometric systems to help enhance new and existent government services. Among the systems Cross Match will be assisting the government’s National Public Administration include fingerprint, palm print and multi-modal capture devices, document readers and supporting […]

A face recognition app is available for $7 download to an Apple iPhone 4 so long as it has been jailbroken, the act of hacking into a phone’s firmware to enable a user to bypass limits or controls set by developers, according to a Dvice article. The application, called RecognizeMe, utilizes the front facing camera […]

360 Biometrics has announced the release of a new fingerprint identification software solution designed for use in small- to medium-sized companies. The system, called PersonID, also enables administrators to incorporate photographs of a user in addition to any relevant identifying information so that when a match is made following a fingerprint scan, any data including […]

Sudan is launching a civil registry project that expects to have the fingerprints of 8 million of the 16 million citizens and foreign residents collected for the country’s national database, according to a Sudan Tribune article. Beyond simply collecting the biometric data of all the population, other aspects of the project include creation of a […]

Voice biometrics are becoming increasingly useful to various companies and organizations requiring secure identity verification via the phone, such as in bank call centers, but the technology is also proving useful in other applications too, according to a TMCnet article. The reason for its capabilities in other areas is due to a general need for […]