Biometrics industry stocks this week: Aware, IDEX, Precise, NEXT Publicly-traded biometrics companies continue to report fourth quarter results. One of those was the Bedford, Massachusetts-based, Aware Inc. The company’s shares trade on Nasdaq. The stock is trading off in the wake of the latest numbers. The company registered...full story Categories: Biometric News | Biometrics Stocks Share: Facebook | Twitter

Better Identity Coalition launches to advocate for next-generation identity tools A group of companies from several sectors have come together to launch the Better Identity Coalition, which will seek to develop consensus and cross-sector policy initiatives to promote the adoption of effective identity verification and authentication in the U.S.,...full story Categories: Biometric News | Trade Notes Share: Facebook | Twitter

IntelliVision achieves 93% accuracy in Megaface face recognition challenge The latest version of the IntelliVision Face Recognizer product has achieved an accuracy of over 93% on the Megaface million-scale face recognition challenge. According to the announcement, this ranks IntelliVision second worldwide and first among commercially-available products. “Accurate facial...full story Categories: Biometric News | Facial Recognition Share: Facebook | Twitter

Facebook expands notifications and use of facial recognition Facebook is posting notifications informing users about its facial recognition features in their “News Feeds,” explaining some of the ways it uses the technology and noting that it can be turned off at any time. Facebook users are directed...full story Categories: Biometric News | Facial Recognition Share: Facebook | Twitter

CULedger and Evernym launch distributed ledger digital identity system U.S. credit union consortium CULedger and blockchain developer Evernym have announced a new digital identity system based on distributed ledger technology, called MyCUID, to protect credit union members from fraud and identity theft. MyCUID provides a portable digital identity...full story Categories: Biometric News | Financial Services Share: Facebook | Twitter

Acuant partners with Healthpac to automate data collection for electronic medical records Acuant has partnered with medical billing and practice management software provider Healthpac to offer an integrated identity information capturing solution to help healthcare organizations improve efficiency and patient experiences, while reducing rejected insurance claims. Patient information is captured from...full story Categories: Biometric News | Healthcare Biometrics Share: Facebook | Twitter

Kosovo plans nationwide rollout of mobile driver’s license solution from Veridos The Republic of Kosovo is planning to role out mobile driver’s licenses nationwide on an app leveraging Veridos’ VeriGO DriveID platform, the company has announced. The app can be used to display information stored on the user’s smartphone, and...full story Categories: Biometric News | Civil ID Share: Facebook | Twitter

FPC engineers working on native iris scanner support for Android Engineers with Fingerprint Cards are working on bringing native support for iris scanners to Android, and have made several commits towards that goal, XDA Developers reports. One commit, titled “Biometrics Iris HAL interface,” will make iris recognition generally available...full story Categories: Biometric News | Iris / Eye Share: Facebook | Twitter

Hackers can recreate your fingerprints, but can they mimic your typing? This a guest post by Csaba Krasznay, security evangelist at Balabit. As quickly as businesses are developing new defense tactics, hackers are creating new methods to infiltrate systems, including hijacking credentials that allow them to dig deeper and steal...full story Categories: Industry Insights: Guest Posts Share: Facebook | Twitter

Airport facial recognition use expanding as trials show faster passenger processing speed U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is exploring ways to expand the use of facial recognition at airports in light of the successful trial of the technology for passenger boarding at Boston Logan International Airport, ATWOnline.com reports. CBP Deputy...full story Categories: Biometric News | Facial Recognition Share: Facebook | Twitter

European Payments Forum 5th Annual European Payments Forum March 1-2, 2018 Amsterdam, The Netherlands After the great success of the September 2017 event, we will have our next annual European Payments Forum in March 2018. This time, the hosting city is going...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter

Forensics Europe Expo Forensics Europe Expo March 6-7, 2018 Olympia, London With an incredible speaker line up, dozens of free seminars, tonnes of innovation and an exhibition of the latest technology, Forensics Europe Expo is gearing up to be the must-attend event...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter

Security & Counter Terror Expo Security & Counter Terror Expo March 6 – 7, 2018 Olympia, London Security & Counter Terror Expo is the UK’s leading national security event. It is a world-class showcase of the capabilities, strategies and intelligence to keep nations, infrastructure,...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter

Global Iris Recognition Summit 2018 Global Iris Recognition Summit 2018 March 12 – 13 2018 Beijing, China Using biometrics for authentication and human-computer interaction has become an important market trend. Compared to the popular fingerprint recognition and face recognition, iris recognition has prominent advantage...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter

Money20/20 Asia Money20/20 Asia March 13-15, 2018 Marina Bay Sands, Singapore Money20/20 organizes the world’s largest events focused on payments and financial services innovation for connected commerce at the intersection of mobile, retail, marketing services, data and technology. In March 2018,...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter