The UK’s National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) has brought mobile fingerprinting devices to the police agencies in the UK to enable quicker identification of fingerprints without having to bring the person of interest back to the police station for identification authentication, according to a Planet Biometrics article. Though capable of identifying a person of interest […]

BIO-key International has announced that it has deployed a fingerprint-based solution for Summa Health System, an Ohio-based integrated health care delivery system that includes hospitals, health centers, health plans and a physician-hospital organization. The new solution, which complies with the Ohio Pharmacy Board two-factor authentication requirements, is replacing an older system that utilized hardware and […]

L-1 Identity Solutions has announced it has been awarded a contract from the Tennessee Applicant Processing Services program naming them the exclusive provider of digital fingerprint services for the state. The contract, which is valued at $40 million, is purported to span three years with two additional and optional one year renewals. Specifically, the systems […]

RNCOS, an industry intelligence and analysis company, has released a new report titled Global Biometric Forecast to 2012 which predicts large growth in facial recognition expecting a compound annual growth rate of 31%. Among such drivers is the ability of face recognition to act as both a verification and identification tool as it can be […]

Biometric Signature ID (BSI), a developer of gesture-based biometric solutions, has announced it has been awarded a second patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on its multi-factor gesture biometric technology used for identification authentication. The solution, called BioSig-ID, authenticates an individual’s identity via unique movements of a mouse, interactions with a touch […]

L-1 Identity Solutions and France-based Safran have announced that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has approved the proposed merger between the two companies by completing its investigation of the merger and finding no unresolved national security concerns. With the news of the approval, Safran and L-1 officials announced their intent […]

Voice recognition technology could prove a useful tool in efforts to keep fraudsters from gaining access to a company’s client’s personal information from call centers. Simon Cranswick, general manager for interactive solutions at developer Dimension Data, made these comment at the Customer Interact Forum about the importance for measures that could reduce fraud committed via […]

The state of Massachusetts has implemented a face recognition system that it uses as a tool to combat identity fraud in the state by looking through its database of driver’s license pictures on the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles. But the system has left some people incorrectly accused of wrong-doing, according to a Boston.com article. […]