Is Mastercard bridging the gap from passwords to biometrics? This is a guest post by Thomas Yohannan, a mentor at Alchemist Accelerator. MasterCard rolled out an interesting initiative a few weeks back in South Africa. The company developed cards with an additional layer of security to counteract fraud...full story Categories: Biometric News | Financial Services Share: Facebook | Twitter

Integrated Biometrics names Tom McCabe as CFO Integrated Biometrics has named Tom McCabe as the company’s chief financial officer, succeeding Jerry Zuzolo, who recently announced his retirement. “Tom has a multi-disciplined background in finance, manufacturing, information technology, and administration that perfectly complements an organization like ours,”...full story Categories: Biometric News | Trade Notes Share: Facebook | Twitter

Jumio adds eyeball tracking capabilities to ID verification solution Jumio has added eyeball tracking biometric capabilities to its trusted identity verification solution, Netverify. In addition to conducting a “liveness” check to verify that a real person is holding the mobile device, Jumio’s Netverify will now require users to...full story Categories: Biometric News | Iris / Eye Share: Facebook | Twitter

Study finds Americans support biometrics-based payment systems Viewpost released the results of a new survey covering American consumers’ perceptions about “futuristic” payments technologies and currencies, including biometric solutions such as fingerprinting, facial recognition, retinal scanning and voice control. After surveying 1,000 U.S. consumers, Viewpost found that...full story Categories: Biometric News | Financial Services Share: Facebook | Twitter

Facial recognition technology coming to police body cameras Motorola Solutions will soon add machine learning capabilities to its police body cams, which will help officers find objects and missing people, according to a report by Engadget. The body cam developer is currently working on a prototype device...full story Categories: Biometric News | Law Enforcement Share: Facebook | Twitter

UN migration agency introducing regional biometric data exchange solution International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN’s migration agency, is working on introducing a biometric data exchange solution to help countries around the world effectively address irregular migration, according to a report by GovInsider. Donato Colucci, senior regional immigration...full story Categories: Biometric News | Border Security Share: Facebook | Twitter

Vermont AG says DMV facial recognition program violates state law The Vermont attorney general has determined that the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles’ use of facial recognition technology is not fully compliant with state law and that the program should continue to be suspended unless the Legislature gives the...full story Categories: Biometric News | Facial Recognition Share: Facebook | Twitter

IdentiMetrics brings biometric tech to Pennsylvania school district lunch lines In an effort to prove to the federal government that the district is actually serving the number of students that it claims to feed, the Hazleton Area school district in Pennsylvania has selected biometrics technology from IdentiMetrics. All students...full story Categories: Biometric News | Fingerprint Recognition Share: Facebook | Twitter

Alibaba demonstrates face recognition system at cashier-less concept café Alibaba Group demonstrated a facial recognition-powered, cashier-less coffee shop earlier this month at its second Taobao Maker Festival, according to a report by Technode. Using Alibaba’s AI and data technologies, Tao Café invited customers to shop at the offline...full story Categories: Biometric News | Commercial Applications Share: Facebook | Twitter

MagnaChip to be ELAN’s foundry partner for biometric smartcard production MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation has been selected as ELAN Microelectronics’ foundry partner for the production of biometric smartcards. Embedded with a fingerprint sensor, the smartcard is designed to provide secure identification to prevent credit card fraud. The sensor-IC based smartcard...full story Categories: Biometric News | Fingerprint Recognition Share: Facebook | Twitter

Insurance IoT Asia Summit 2017 Insurance IoT Asia Summit 2017 August 1-4, 2017 Singapore The Internet of Things (IoT) offers truly disruptive and transformative potential to the insurance industry. IoT will reach US $1.3 trillion in spending by 2019 with Asia Pacific expected to...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter

Biometrics HITech 2017 and XIV BIC Brazilian Identification Conference Biometrics HITech 2017 and XIV BIC Brazilian Identification Conference August 29 – 31, 2017 Brasilia, federal district of Brazil Brasilia, the federal capital of Brazil, was chosen to host Biometrics HITech 2017 and XIV BIC Brazilian Identification Conference, the...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter

World e-ID and Cybersecurity World e-ID and Cybersecurity Digital Identity & Data Protection for Citizens & Businesses Conference & Exhibition Marseille Provence, France Now in its 13th edition, World e-ID and Cybersecurity explores the latest secure identification technologies, their implementation and the related...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter

WIRED Security 2017 WIRED Security 2017 September 28, 2017 King’s Place, London UK WIRED Security 2017 returns to London in September to discuss the latest innovations, trends and threats in enterprise cyber defence, security intelligence and cybersecurity. Save 20% and register with...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter

PayExpo Europe PayExpo Europe 4-5 October 2017 London, UK – ExCeL London Now in its fifth year, PayExpo Europe is the leading payments event in the UK, attracting 2,200+ senior stakeholders from across the entire European payments community to network, learn...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter