PayPal is working with shopkeepers in London’s Richmond High Street shopping district to accept customer payments via mobile devices and their profile pictures. According to the company’s official blog, PayPal has added a new, “Local” tab to its existing app that enables users to find shops or restaurants in your area that accept mobile PayPal […]

Fujitsu Laboratories launched a new biometric technology that extracts and matches 2,048-bit feature codes from palm vein image data. Vein pattern biometric modalities are not a new phenomenon, but where Fujitsu’s solution differs is in its method of using feature codes. These codes, extracted from vein images, represent the features of the biometric capture in […]

A report from the Government Accountability Office suggests that progress toward biometric exits at airports still needs work before making the additional security measure a reality. The report reveals that in February 2013, the Secretary of Homeland Security testified that the DHS plans to report overstay rates by December 2013. DHS officials, however, have yet […]

Technical issues and a lack of end user acceptance are hindering the adoption of biometric technology. Cecilia Aragon, associate professor at the University of Washington Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering, studied the matter and spoke with Regarding ID’s Gina Jordan about the report and some possible solutions, including a biometric modality that tracks […]

In the words of the famous Wild West outlaw Doc Holliday, “Why should I obtain by force that which I can obtain by cheating?” The use of biometrics to authenticate and verify identity is growing, and as the number of uses both personal and professional increases, so too do the number of biometric modalities. While […]

SMARTCORE, Lumidigm partner for South Korea immigration project A new immigration initiative has been instituted wherein foreign visitors to the Republic of Korea will undergo a clearance process that features SMARTCORE multi-biometric acquisition stations (MBAS) with Lumidigm multispectral imaging sensors. Upon arrival to Korean airports and seaports, foreign visitors will submit their arrival card and […]

The Hazardous Materials Endorsement Threat Assessment Program (HTAP) has enrolled a total of 1.5 million commercial drivers at 135 enrollment centers, according to MorphoTrust. In this program, screened, trained and vetted trusted agents collect the biographic and biometric data for the 200,000 truck drivers who require a Hazardous Materials Endorsement on their commercial driver licenses […]