Biometrics News

Ottawa - Beginning this summer, Canada’s Ministry of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship will require biometric data from people from Europe, the Middle East and Africa coming to Canada to visit, work, study or immigrate.

The automated teller machine (ATM) was considered a radical move when Barclay's installed the machines in a London suburb in 1967. At that time, the machines gave a fixed amount of money using a special voucher - The familiar ATM card wasn't invented yet.

Amsterdam - The Dutch technology company Gemalto developed a biometric passport that can be used by thirty different countries. Now the company is pushing ahead with digital passport technology to combine stronger security with enhanced traveler experience.

Bejing - Criminals looking for a quiet pint suddenly found themselves collared when cops used facial recognition technology to catch thirsty crooks at a Chinese beer festival.

New Delhi - India's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that citizens have a constitutional right to privacy, a landmark decision that could jeopardise a government programme holding biometric data on over a billion people.

New Delhi - India's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that citizens have a constitutional right to privacy, a landmark verdict that could have wide-reaching implications for the government's flagship biometric programme.

Berlin - Germany will start testing facial recognition software at a Berlin train station this summer which could help police identify and locate terror suspects more quickly, a minister said Saturday.

The voice recognition security system used by a major UK bank was compromised in a test by a user's twin. The breach allows recent transactions to be displayed and money to be transferred between accounts. Withdrawals are not permitted.

The North Carolina hearable and wearable manufacturer Valencell filed a lawsuit against Bragi, accusing the German startup of infringing its patent over a pair "smart" headphones known as Dash.

AU10TIX, an industry leader in ID authentication technologies, announced its release of the new Advanced Deep-Learning Beta software that will further increase security with forensic level authentication and smart face comparison.

MasterCard has started rolling out in at least a dozen European countries a new online payment technology using a selfie.

The FBI captured fugitive Neil Stammer, who has been on the run for 15 years, thanks to the agency’s new biometric facial-recognition system.

Imagine a debit card that can never be lost of stolen, and will always be right there when you need it. Imagine no more — just such a card is already in use.

A school district in Florida was in the process of developing a program that would track children riding its buses using biometric scanning. The program was halted after it was learned a company scanned the eyes of students without parental permission.

Today people rely on passwords to protect digital information. For years, these strings of code have been the "keys" to access digital property. As 2013 arrives, will passwords be enough to protect valuable personal information?

Technology has been growing at an exceptionally fast rate over the past decade or more. Expect to see many developments and/or expansions in technology trends for 2013.

The flexible microcircuit patch, designed by John Rogers and Todd Coleman, will replace electrodes and large monitors for measuring body and brain functions. This biological and electrical engineering combination will transform biometric capabilities.

A new security camera product has been developed by a Japanese company which can search through a massive amount of data in one second, based on facial recognition technologies.

MANILA – The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) estimates that after the registration of voters end on October 31 midnight, some forty-eight (48) million Filipinos shall have been entered in the registry of voters.

The FBI is launching its biggest online data gathering effort yet. It is investing $1 billion into creating the world's biggest biometrics database. It's not Big Brother that is beginning to materialize here. This time it's Big Nephew.

Fingerprint sensors are by no means foolproof - but still better than a passport for security checks. Police are not the only ones taking fingerprints these days. Starting on November 1, fingerprint data will even be stored in the passports.

CAMPBELL, Calif. - Biometric hand readers from Recognition Systems Inc. of Campbell, Calif., are currently used in many airports around the world, including those in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, Israel. At San Francisco International, over 170 hand r...