Biometrics

Facewatch comes under the public eye again

Biometric security company Facewatch will provide its technology to UK retailer Iceland. News of a…

Biometric screening goes live at Terminal 4 of Changi Airport, Singapore

Terminal 4 of Singapores Changi Airport is now open, with biometric passenger screening enabled by…

Finger, eye scan promise to get travelers through airport security faster

New technology is coming to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport that…

Andhra Pradesh adopts iris scanning for pension payments

An iris recognition system is going to be used to identify pensioners for their pension payments in Andhra Pradesh. This new…

Younger users prefer biometrics to passwords

The new generation of banking customers would rather use biometric security devices than PINs and passwords for authentication,…

Morpho signs biometric eBorder contract with the UAE

Morpho (Safran) has signed a major deal with the United Arab Emirates which will see the French biometric security firm deploy a…

Indian navy to deploy biometric security devices

Indias government has granted the countrys navy and coast guard a first set of mobile biometric security devices to check the…

Biometrics make officials spend more time in office

Introduction of the Aadhaar-enabled biometric attendance marking for close to 50,000 central government employees has seen the "…

California cops sign contract to begin using massive biometric database

The Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department the fourth largest local policing agency in the United States has taken another step…

Gesture & biometric interface market to reach $1.2B by 2019

A new report from Juniper Research has predicted that by 2019 the global market for services based on gesture and biometric…

ISS launches Lumidigm Biometric system LM-01 at IFSEC Delhi

Intelligent Systems and Solutions (ISS), announced the launch of ISS LM01: Standalone Biometric & RFID access control…

From January 1, Govt. to use biometrics to track late-comers

The Narendra Modi government will phase out the manual system of attendance in all central government offices over the next…

Abu Dhabi bank launches voice biometrics system

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank has said it will use voice authentication for customer transactions, saying that it could offer more…

Airline tests system that identifies passengers using a thumb scan

Passengers may one day be able to hitch a ride on a plane with their thumb as carriers consider new ways to trim airport waiting…

Barclays banks on biometrics for business customers

Barclays is to begin offering finger vein biometric readers to its business customers in an attempt to cut fraud, and is…