A market report from Transparency Market Research estimates that the global health care biometrics market, which was valued at $1.2 billion in 2012, is expected to see a compound annual growth rate of 25.9% from 2013 to 2019, en route to an estimated market value of $5.8 billion in 2019. The report, entitled “Health care […]

Infineon Technologies will provide its security chips for France’s new electronic driver licenses. The new, polycarbonate smart cards will contain Infineon’s SLE78 microprocessor. The embedded microprocessor securely stores both the biometric and personal data of the license holder protecting identity and helping to reduce fraud. France’s state printer, Imprimerie Nationale, will produce the cards. As many as […]

Who had 48-hours in the Touch ID spoof pool? Come on up and claim your prize. Just two days after the iPhone 5S was released the Chaos Computer Club in Germany officially spoofed the Touch ID fingerprint scanner, surprising exactly no one. The overwhelming popularity of the iPhone device, along with the introduction of the […]

Dutch Army commander Colonel Bernard Wulfse, has revealed that NATO is investing time, man power and resources into advancing the agency’s use of biometrics. Wulfse, who also works with the Joint Task Force Counter Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED), explained NATO’s increased biometric efforts at the Biometric Consortium Conference held this week in Tampa, Fla., stating […]

Cross Match demos mobile biometric and credential reading device at BCC Cross Match Technologies has revealed plans to demo its suite of credential reading options available on the company’s SEEK Avenger mobile handheld device. The demos will take place during the Biometric Consortium Conference (BCC) taking place this week in Tampa, Florida. The SEEK Avenger […]

Five years ago, a trailblazer in the field of biometric payments crashed and burned. Pay By Touch wanted to change the way consumers paid for goods at the point of purchase, requiring only a fingerprint to authorize a transaction. The service fell short of mass consumer adoption, and the company – famously known for burning through […]

The inclusion of a fingerprint scanner on Apple’s latest iPhone was one of the worst kept secrets leading up to the device’s September launch event. Rumors had been circulating on gadget blogs for months about the possible biometric inclusion. So to affirm what the world already knew, the computing giant made the iPhone’s biometric utility […]