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 […]

A proposal by Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, to fingerprint all its faculty has met with considerable resistance. Since early November, the university’s faculty senate has voted twice by a huge majority to reject fingerprinting for each of the school’s some 1,100 employees. “I have no problem with a background check – I have […]

NexID is a spinoff from West Virginia University and Clarkson University that develops technology to determine if a fingerprint image is from a live finger or a spoof. Both optical and capacitive fingerprint readers are suspect to spoofing, but NexID’s software algorithms can be used to train these scanners to recognize spoofs, explains Mark Cornett, […]

The Canadian government is now requiring nationals of 29 countries and one territory to provide fingerprints and a photograph in order to enter Canada to visit, study or work, under regulations proposed by Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney. The Canadian government wants to collect biometric information to ensure travel to Canada is legitimate. […]

South Carolina-based Integrated BiometricsLLC has released Sherlock, a light, thin, small mobile ID fingerprint sensor that also has FBI Appendix F certification. The sensor is made with Integrated’s patented Light Emitting Sensor (LES) technology that’s been incorporated with a thin film transistor. The LES technology functions due to a highly engineered charged polymer film that […]

The Government of India’s Standardization Testing & Quality Certification (STQC) has certified Suprema, Inc.’s RealScan-G1 fingerprint live scanner, deeming it in full compliance for the country’s Unique ID (UID) national ID product for fingerprint authentication demands. The government requires the various aspects of the UID project to get the STQC certification. For fingerprint scanner vendors, […]

Morpho, a part of the Safran Group, has received FBI certification for its MorphoTop Model 100R, a high speed livescan fingerprint scanner. The certification covers both tenprint rolled and identifcation flat print capture. It also meets the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) Image Quality Standard (IQS) Appendix F specification. The MorphoTop scanner is used […]

Fulcrum biometrics has released FbF LiveScan, an EBTS 9.3/Appendix F certified electronic fingerprint system, for Defense Industry Applicant ID. The system is compatible with the Secure Web Fingerprint Transmission (SWFT) program and provides a compliant method for Department of Defense contractors to submit electronic fingerprint images taken for security clearance background screenings. FbF LiveScan meets […]

The Canadian Forces is expanding its ability to collect biometric data for potential use by other federal government departments, reports the Ottawa Citizen. The military began collecting biometric data on detainees and suspicious individuals in Afghanistan. In April 2010, a directive ordered the military to collect information on other people as well and develop biometric […]

Institution investigating mobile biometrics The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has lashed out at its banking competitors for their use of NFC trials, calling the efforts “expensive and complicated.” According to a report by ZDNet.com, CBA— one of Australia’s largest banks— trails rival banks ANZ and Westpac who have both deployed NFC payment solutions using […]