Registered traveler programs are booming as airlines welcome record numbers of passengers. CLEAR, one of the programs that started it all a decade ago, is back and now operating in 13 U.S. airports and three Major League Baseball stadiums.

The spread of mobile is driving demand for creative mash-ups of proximity-based technologies. That’s why tech incubator AccelerateNFC and proximity ID company Flomio created TrackHack: The Proximity ID Hackathon.

MasterCard is getting serious about enabling biometric payments for online purchases. Bob Reany, senior vice president of Identity Solutions at MasterCard, talks about the development and implementation of a mobile and biometric authentication strategy that for online purchases.

Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is the applied research arm at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 2013, GTRI was awarded $1.7 million to develop and demonstrate a Trustmark Framework for the Identity Ecosystem.

ID.me was awarded an NSTIC grant for $1.2 million in 2013 to pilot trusted identity solutions around its digital authentication engine Troop ID. The company initially focused on military members and their families but has expanded to include first responders, teachers and students. Now ID.me is a digital identity network that enables consumers to prove who they are online while controlling how their information is shared with brands.

Veri-Fire started a crowdfunding campaign for its Guardian biometric trigger lock, a device that mounts on the weapon’s trigger guard and slides forward enabling the owner to shoot after correct authentication.

It took less than one day for the Jomoco Coconut Water Company to be overtaken by hackers. Hour by hour, Jomoco employees watched as they lost control of their emails, social media accounts and credit cards.

Sensory launched TrulySecure 2.0, an updated version of its speaker verification and face recognition solution for mobile, tablets and PCs that enables multimodal biometric authentication.

TSCP was awarded a $1.26 million NSTIC grant in 2013 to deploy trusted credentials for conducting secure transactions among small and medium-sized businesses and financial service companies, such as Fidelity Investments and Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Hoyos Labs fingerprint app captures four fingerprints using the front facing camera on mobile devices. The smartphone camera takes a picture of the four fingers together with the thumb folded over the palm.