Biometrics & Identification Technology

India makes biometrics mandatory for all e-gov projects
The Register
The “Implementing Services” guide spells out the most interesting bits: the nation says biometric authentication is now mandatory, with fingerprints, faces and irises all acceptable. So is compliance with various Indian government standards aimed at ...

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How good are selfies these days? Good enough to fool Samsung Galaxy S8 biometrics
The Register
Chaos Computer Club's "Starbug" has taken a look at the Samsung Galaxy S8's iris-scanning authentication feature and found you can beat it with a photograph. The tools the group used aren't even remotely sophisticated: a camera in night mode, a contact ...
Samsung Galaxy S8 iris scanner fooled by Chaos CollectivePlanet Biometrics
Samsung Galaxy S8 iris scanner fooled by German hackersThe Guardian
Samsung Galaxy S8 Iris Scanner Fooled by a PhotoBleepingComputer
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Financial Times
Biometric banking most popular in UK
Financial Times
However, people in the UK were keener to embrace new biometric technology in banking. The report said: “When it comes to biometrics . . . the UK is very willing to adopt certain measures.” It found that UK consumers were the most open to replacing ...
BBC reporter and his twin dupe HSBC voice ID recognition systemBiometric Update

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Biometric Update
Improving African biometrics market boosts Nigerian identity plan
Biometric Update
Nigeria's relationship with biometrics and other vendors working on its National Identity Number (NIN) program has significantly improved, along with the results according to National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) Director General and CEO Aliyu ...

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Biometrics expert honored for work in assisting with murder investigation
Biometric Update
Jain and two members of his biometrics team, post-doctoral student Kai Cao and recently graduated doctoral student Sunpreet Arora, were awarded a Civilian Citation by the LPD “for meritorious actions which significantly aided in the protection of life ...

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Kount Adds Behavioral Biometrics to Anti-Fraud Platform
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Anti-fraud specialist Kount has integrated BehavioSec's behavioral biometrics technology into its SaaS platform. The integration brings a new fraud detection tool to the table, confirming users' identities based on patterns in how they interact with ...

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Mobile ID World
NEXT Biometrics Gets Two New Clients Including 'Japanese Tier 1 Firm'
Mobile ID World
NEXT Biometrics has two new clients serving the notebook and tablet markets, the company has announced. NEXT Biometrics Gets Two New Clients Including 'Japanese Tier 1 Firm' In a statement, the company declined to name the clients in question, but ...

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Lawsuit alleges Apple Pay violates patents related to biometrics
Biometric Update
Kenneth P. Weiss, CEO of USR, holds 13 patents relating to authentication systems using a smartphone, biometrics, and secure one-time token generation for financial transactions, according to the lawsuit. USR alleges its technology protected by those ...

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NEC Puts Earbud Biometrics to a Different Use
Mobile ID World
“While NEC says 'pulse rates and other biometric information' could be tracked in later iterations of its technology, for now the primary aim is authentication, complemented by user positioning enabled by built-in gyroscopic, geomagnetic, and ...

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PaymentsJournal (press release) (registration) (blog)
What Do Underpants Have to Do With Behavioral Biometrics?
PaymentsJournal (press release) (registration) (blog)
Having been in the biometrics industry for close to 20 years, these questions have been in my mind for some time. One major challenge is identity vetting. Prior to handing a credential, how can one be sure that it is given to a person that is not ...

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Business Wire
NEXT Biometrics Wins Two Brand Name Notebook & Tablet Customers for Large Fingerprint Sensors at Affordable Prices
Marketwired (press release)
OSLO, NORWAY--(Marketwired - May 23, 2017) - NEXT Biometrics Group ASA (Oslo Bors: NEXT) announced that after months of testing and evaluations of its fingerprint sensors, NEXT won two new brand name Notebook and Tablet customers, including a ...
Digital Door Lock Systems Market: Rising Adoption of Biometric Systems in Enterprise and Domestic Sectors to Fuel ...SYS-CON Media (press release)

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OpenGov Asia (blog)
Part 3: Biometrics and Wearable Technology – The Inevitable Marriage? [OG Partner]
OpenGov Asia (blog)
Parts one and two of this series looked at the market for wearable devices and how biometrics can be used with today's wearable technology. In this installment we will look at revolutionary biosensors of the not too distant future and the impact they ...

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The future in biometrics
IT-Online
The announcement in April 2017 that South Africa will be the first market in the world to test biometric bank cards technology confirmed that the tide is slowly turning for the local financial industry and big institutions could see a positive move in ...

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The future in biometrics
IT-Online
The announcement in April 2017 that South Africa will be the first market in the world to test biometric bank cards technology confirmed that the tide is slowly turning for the local financial industry and big institutions could see a positive move in ...

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BRIEF-Next Biometrics secures new customers
Reuters
SHANGHAI, May 23 China has published draft guidelines to regulate the booming bicycle-sharing industry whose firms have raised hundreds of millions in dollars in funding but have cluttered up sidewalks with bikes.

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