Morpho announced that Australia’s Customs and Border Protection Service signed a five year agreement for service of the SmartGate automated biometric security checkpoint solution. The SmartGate technology operates in real-time utilizing facial recognition hardware that compares the captured data of a traveler to the data contained on the chip embedded on his e-passport. Australian Customs […]

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has unveiled its Kaching iPhone mobile banking and payments app, bringing mobile phone-based banking to its customers utilizing near field communication that will authenticate individual’s via facial recognition, according to an IT Wire article. A user’s authentication for accessing their accounts via their phone will utilize face recognition technology […]

Elyctis, an electronic ID solutions developer based in France, has announced the release of ID BOX, a new compact e-passport reader. According to Elyctis, the ID BOX provides a much cheaper alternative to current e-passport verification equipment, enabling more border control and law enforcement officers to read all the features of electronic and biometric passports, […]

Morpho has announced the launch of the new design of its MorphoWay, an automated biometric-based e-gate for use in border control applications. The redesign has given Morpho’s border security solution a more modern look with a transparent build, but also has reduced its footprint to better accommodate border-crossing environments. Like its predecessor, the newly designed […]

The European Visa Information System (VIS) launched in October giving participating states the opportunity to collect and store third-country travelers’ visa information using biometrics. The European VIS hopes to simplify visa processing for issuing and checking authorities. The system collects and stores personal data, a facial image and fingerprint data. With this level of data, […]

Google and Samsung unveiled their new Galaxy Nexus handset, the first phone to run the latest Android 4.0 OS – aka Ice Cream Sandwich. The NFC-enabled Galaxy Nexus boasts a 4.65″ Contour Display with 720p HD resolution and a dual core 1.2ghz processor, and comes loaded with new features – notably a biometric facial scanner, […]

AOptix Technologies Inc. announced a partnership with emaratech, a regional system integrator for government, border control, aviation security and electronic identification systems and the provider of smart and electronic border control gates in all of UAE airports, Sultanate of Oman, Sultan Qaboos airport and Jordan Queen Alia airport. Exhibiting at GITEX Technology week in Dubai, […]

Researchers from the University of Notre Dame have begun researching a facial-recognition-based system they are calling a Questionable Observer Detector that would be able to identify criminals returning to the scene of the crime, according to a Network World article. The idea for looking into such a system struck Kevin Bowyer, a professor of computer […]

The FBI will begin a service that provides facial recognition capabilities to local police agencies for identifying persons of interest via photos by early 2012 as a part of their larger Next-Generation Identification system, which incorporates iris, voice and facial data in addition to the fingerprint data the FBI already has, according to a Nextgov […]

The E-Gates at Manchester Airport, facial recognition-based biometric gates that enable passengers to bypass lines for automated security checks, were temporarily suspended due to an investigation of a couple swapping passports and then passing through the gates, according to a BBC News article. Both people involved were stopped by immigration officers supervising the system. After […]