User name and password are commonly asked for when logging on to a banking or e-commerce site. But Torotech wants to offer additional security and authenticate Digital DNA, or different pieces of a users hardware as well, according to a Techworld.com article. The premise if that each individual piece of hardware, even the mass-produced equipment, […]

The Republic of Mali in Western Africa has selected Sagem Sécurité to deploy a biometric based identity system for secure management of public records. Some 1000 portable data collection stations linked to an Automatic Fingerprint Identification System that will record biometric data for more than 10 million citizens.   

In an effort to increase security, a leading pharmacy benefit manager has tapped IdentiPHI and their partner Zvetco Biometrics to help implement a solution. By using IdentiPHI’s SAFsolution in conjunction with Zvetco’s biometric fingerprint readers, the pharmacy benefit manager is expected to ease password administration, support and secure multi-person use terminals and secure network access […]

Logica Holdings, a developer of biometric secured social networking sites, has named Bill O’Dowd as new CEO and chairman while previous CEO Pino Baldassarre will move into the role of president and managing director. This news follows the recent acquisition of Dolphin Media, where O’Dowd was formerly the CEO, by Logica. The acquisition of Dolphin, […]

Identica, a developer of biometric solutions, has developed a system that scans for information beneath the skin, according to a TMCnet article. The new system claims to be superior to the fingerprint scanners specifically when used in conjunction with labor related professions. Due to finger surfaces frequently getting covered in substances that could impede a […]

Atos Origin and Sagem Securite will implement the issuance of France’s biometric electronic passport, according to a VNU Net article. The two companies will deploy 5,000 data acquisition and processing systems to 2,350 government offices by next June. The new travel documents will include fingerprints and a photograph that will be stores on a contactless […]

Illinois DMVs are using facial recognition biometrics with their database of driver’s license pictures to help stop driver’s license fraud, according to a Government Technology article. While Illinois was the first to implement this program in 1997, since then roughly 20 other states have created similar programs. The project was put into action through the […]

Logica Holdings’ recent acquisition of Dolphin Digital Media points at the possibility of new social networking sites for children that maintains a safe and secure atmosphere through biometric authentication of users. Logica currently runs a social networking site for young girls called Anna’s Diary which keeps a safe environment through fingerprint scanning. The biometric safety […]

Biometrics developer Fujitsu’s new biometric palm scanner looks to replace finger print scanners by being safer and more consistent, according to a Scientific American article. The system, called PalmSecure, claims that it is harder to crack than a fingerprint scanner as it requires blood to be pumping through the palm when it is scanned. PalmSecure […]

UK’s Identity and Passport Service’s biometric ID card project may have some possible issues due to fingerprint errors, according to a Silicon.com article. The Biometrics Assurance Group, and independent UK-based biometrics group, has warned that the project, which is to be rolled out over the next four years in the UK, is facing possible serious […]