London’s Heathrow Airport is testing biometric self-boarding as a way to help speed up the flight boarding process, reports Security Document World. The two-month pilot is happening with South African Airways and utilizes facial biometric technology to facilitate a self-boarding process. Passengers will give facial biometric data when they check in for a flight. When […]

A year after implementing facial recognition technology, the Lincoln Police Department (LPD) in Nebraska hasn’t found it to be helpful in catching criminals. The Daily Nebraskan reports that per an agreement with the state, the LPD cannot make arrests solely based on facial recognition, but they can use the software to assist in criminal investigation […]

Wanting to explore the possibility of recording and validating facial or iris biometrics with a smart phone from a distance, the U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a $3 million research contract to AOptix. As reported by Wired, the California-based technology firm will be looking at what’s called “Smart Mobile Identity” biometrics identification. The two-year […]

Forms group to create Web ID standards Nok Nok Labs has launched a system that will enable end users to take advantage of authentication and security technology they may already have but don’t use. The company’s Unified Authentication Infrastructure will leverage existing technologies such as fingerprint sensors, webcams, Trusted Platform Module chips or voice biometrics […]

A Companies & Markets report reveals that the global multi-factor authentication market will reach $5.45 billion by 2017. The report also estimates an estimated compound annual growth rate of 17.3% from 2012 to 2017. Two-factor authentication is most commonly used multi-factor authentication model in the world with smartcard/PIN and one-time password making up the top […]

Japanese researchers have developed a “privacy visor” that could help wearers become “invisible” to facial recognition technology that’s used in surveillance efforts, reports Slate. Researchers Isao Echizen of Tokyo’s National Institute of Informatics and Seiichi Gohshi of Kogakuin University spent months doing research on ways that could prevent facial recognition software from tracking information on […]

A Texas retirement community is employing a biometric access control system based on facial, voice and behavioral recognition. A CEPro report reveals that the biometric access system works in conjunction with CCTV to act as a virtual concierge for building’s residents. Similar high-level security systems have traditionally been reserved for sensitive government, pharmaceutical or commercial […]

Biometric technology has been around for more than a century, with its earliest and most common uses centered in law enforcement. In the past decades, application of the technology has extended to the identification and authentication of individuals at border crossings, onto computer networks and into physical spaces. The triumvirate–finger, face and iris–remain the top […]

BioEnable Technologies has launched the next generation of its biometric kiosks with upgraded features to enable biometric identification through a kiosk environment. The new kiosks have increased memory and large CPU to enhance the processing capabilities of biometric verification and identification. The system features a multilingual touch screen interface that works within a self-contained platform. […]

Beginning Dec. 17, Australia will require visa applicants in Cambodia to provide biometrics along with their applications. Cambodians wishing to travel to Australia will need to submit their visa application in person at the Australian Embassy in Phnom Penh and provide two forms of biometrics: a facial image and a 10-digit fingerprint scan. These biometrics […]