Can facial recognition software give away more details about you, like your Social Security number? Researchers at Carnegie Mellon think it can, reports PC Magazine. A team lead by IT professor Alessandro Acquisti have developed a mobile app that draws on facial-recognition software, cloud computing and information from social networking sites to positively identify people. […]

A new application for Apple’s iPhone and iPod called FaceCash offers face recognition as a means of identity verification for mobile-based payments made at brick and mortar points of sale, according to an International Business Times New York article. Essentially, what the FaceCash app enables a user to do is replace his credit cards or […]

The Biometrics Institute, an Australian non-for-profit industry organization, has announced plans to increase its promotion of biometrics by expanding both its physical presence and its networking reach. The Institute has opened an office in London, where the Institute’s General Manager Isabelle Moeller, has relocated. This office will help the Institute bring together its European membership […]

Google has acquired Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition (PittPatt), a seven year-old developer of facial recognition technology, though has yet to disclose terms of the deal or what the company plans to do with it, according to a Wall Street Journal article. Despite not releasing any specific plans, a spokesman for Google did release that the technology […]

Following an offer from the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) to use its database of driver license photographs and face recognition technology to help in tracking down those suspected in being involved in the Vancouver riots following their loss in the NHL Stanley Cup finals this year, British Columbia’s privacy commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, has […]

RNCOS, an industry intelligence and analysis company, has released a new report titled Global Biometric Forecast to 2012 which predicts large growth in facial recognition expecting a compound annual growth rate of 31%. Among such drivers is the ability of face recognition to act as both a verification and identification tool as it can be […]

The state of Massachusetts has implemented a face recognition system that it uses as a tool to combat identity fraud in the state by looking through its database of driver’s license pictures on the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles. But the system has left some people incorrectly accused of wrong-doing, according to a Boston.com article. […]

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the summer 2011 issue of Regarding ID. The interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that allows you to read the magazine as if it were on the desk in front […]

The U.S. military’s biometrics program scored a big win in the war on terror this year when the system was used to recapture Afghan prisoners who broke out of the Saraposa jail in Kandahar. Wired reports that the military has been a proponent of biometrics over the last seven years, pouring billions of dollars into […]

London’s Heathrow Airport will introduce new facial recognition systems in terminals 1 and 5, reports Planet Biometrics. The system incorporates the Aurora Imaging Recognition (AIR) system and Atkins Passenger Authentication Scanning System (PASS 2) and will be used to control passenger access to the common departure areas and verify passengers before they board flights. This […]