Face Guardian, an identity theft monitoring service that offers image protection, is a service designed to make sure that nobody else uses your photos online.

Morpho announced the commercial launch of a contactless four-finger scanner; TSA’s PreCheck programs enrolls 500K travelers; Gemalto announced its selection by NTT DOCOMO INC. for NFC services; Datacard announced that in one year, more than 40 million driver licenses have been issued globally using its solutions; HID released its EDGE EVO Solo IP-enabled solution that brings intelligence and decision-making to the door; AMAG certifies Quantum Secure.

Yemen will use fingerprints and facial recognition biometrics to identify voters in the upcoming constitutional referendum and national elections. TrueVoter is a system that enables the country to deploy and maintain a biometric information system that enables for the fast, accurate, and uncontested enrollment and identification of voters.

SecureAuth Corp. unveiled SecureAuth IdP 8.0, an access control solution that incorporates risk-based authentication – analyzing and stopping attackers before they breach an IT environment; HID Global announced that iZipline will integrate HID Trusted Tag Services into its cloud-based software platform that enables mobile consumer engagement via Near Field Communications technology; and Credence ID and Fulcrum Biometrics announced two new deployments of their combined Android-based mobile biometric solution in Mexican and Guatemalan prisons.

Walt Disney World’s investment in MagicBands seems to be paying off. The wristbands uses radio frequency technology. Guests can tap the band to touch points in places around the park entrances and FastPass+ entrances. Guests are also required to provide biometric identification – a fingerprint – or a photo ID at the entrance.

One of the biggest recurring issues that the biometrics industry faces is that the technology is often misunderstood, in turn perpetuating resistance to its use and creating assumptions based on a general lack of knowledge. One of the larger misunderstandings has to do with biometric technology associated with the eye; iris — which is common and mainstream — versus retina.

LaunchKey released a facial scan biometric for supported iOS and Android devices that works using a device’s camera. The company also enabled WordPress users who have the LaunchKey plugin to access the site using a facial recognition biometric on their mobile device.

The U.S. Army wants companies to submit information for research into a biometric authentication system. The government has posted a” notice asking well-experienced companies for information on developing a product.