Ceelox has announced it has been issued a new patent by the U.S. Patent Office entitled “System And Method For Biometrically Secured, Transparent Encryption And Decryption.” The patent, which relates to the technology behind a biometrically enabled encryption and decryption of digital files, is used in Ceelox’ Vault, a fingerprint-based file encryption manager for either […]

Schools in the Florida Seminole County school district have decided to drop its four-year-old program involving seven schools that saw students utilizing a fingerprint-based authentication system to pay for their school lunch, according to an Orlando Sentinel article. The decision was based almost entirely on the savings dropping the system would mean for the district […]

A case for biometric technologies inclusion in mobile phones is made citing its potential in terms of addressing consumer needs for data protection, device security and inclusion in mobile services and operations in a Tech Biometric article. While some of the biometric capabilities for phones would require embedded or integrated hardware such as scanners to […]

Malaysia’s government has announced plans for the collection of fingerprint data from roughly 2 million illegal aliens in the country in an effort to curb the use of fraudulent identity documents and to better manage the growing foreign worker population, according to a Herald Sun article. The program is expected to last roughly a month […]

Boston-based Delfigo Security has filed a provisional patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark office for a visual authentication and authorization method for mobile devices. Its method integrates a four-key color palette that’s embedded on a mobile platform and utilizes Delfigo’s keystroke biometric and device ID technology. “Mobile platforms – iPhone, Android, Blackberry – […]

DigitalPersona has announced it is providing the U.are.U line of fingerprint readers to Sailormen Inc., the largest U.S. franchisee of the Popeye’s Chicken and Biscuits fast food restaurant. The solution will find its way into 148 of the fast food locations throughout Alabama, Illinois, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Missouri to be part of a […]

A bill that seeks to introduce biometric identity authentication into elections in the Philippines has passed the country’s House of Representatives following a third reading, according to a Manila Bulletin article. The bill sees the Filipino Commission on Elections (Comelec) taking the lead on implementation as well as managing the centralized and interactive voter registration […]

New Zealand border officials are seeing half of travelers through airports use SmartGates, the automated checkpoints that use the chip on e-passports and facial recognition to confirm a traveler’s identity, according to a Dominion Post article. In response to its growing success at the airports, the New Zealand government has been considering lowering the age […]