In the first settlement in a case filed under the 2008 Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, salon operator L.A. Tan will pay $1.5 million to members in a class action suit. The company used fingerprints for member access to facilities but did not experience a breach or harm members in any way. Thus the case sets a troubling precedent as lawyers frequently search out such cases for personal gain, while class members receive token returns.

Building on the security of the FIDO specifications, Gallagher’s new mobile PACS offering enables physical access keys to be remotely provisioned to mobile devices. Bluetooth, Biometrics and …

While the Defense Department ponders a futures without the Common Access Card — the ubiquitous smart card that has been used for more than a decade — other federal employees and industry representatives ponder what the future of identity might look like for federal employees.

HID Global announced that Honeywell Building Solutions has integrated HID technology into its Honeywell Vector Occupant App; FlexEnable will showcase a 500 dpi flexible fingerprint sensor in a smart card form factor at TRUSTECH; Salto created a new web site for the hospitality industry’s access control needs and requirements.

Many mobile devices come with the ability to enable some sort of biometric authentication baked in – a microphone for voice, a camera for face and even a fingerprint scanner. Visa wants to start enabling consumers to use these technologies instead of passwords to start paying for things.

Online identity vetting it difficult but some are using mobile devices to scan driver licenses to increase the security of the process. Knowledge-based authentication is what most companies fall back to, but the preponderance of breaches and some people’s lack of credit history makes it far from perfect.

In 2017, a defense Department mandate will require multi-factor authentication for contractors accessing certain federal systems and data sources. This requirement is likely to spread from Defense to other federal agencies, and some believe that PIV-I is an ideal solution to meet the multi-factor challenge rapidly, cost effectively and securely. Lean more in a free white paper on the the new NIST SP 800-171 requirements.

Matica Technologies announced its new standalone laser engraving card printer; ImageWare Systems introduced GoVerifyID Enterprise Suite; MediaConcepts has integrated its mobile application with SALTO; Kantara and the European Association for E-identity and Security executed a Memorandum of Understanding.