DigitalPersona announced that its U.are.U 5100 series of fingerprint readers and modules has received Personal Identity Verification (PIV) certification and is now listed on the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) Certified Products List. By receiving the PIV certification and subsequent spot on the IAFIS Certified Products List, DigitalPersona is much better positioned to have […]

BIO-key International announced that it has partnered with fellow biometrics developer Fulcrum Biometrics to bring a new mobile solution to the City Clerk’s Office in Sacramento, Calif. The new solution, which runs on the iPhone from Apple and utilizes fingerprint scanning for identification authentication, is designed to assist the city with staff processing and approval […]

Precise Biometrics announced a partnership with security software developer Thursby Software, which will be integrating Precise’s smart casing solution with Thursby’s security app for mobile devices. The new solutions makes use of the smart casing, a case that fits over smart phones and mobile devices and enables biometric and smart card authentication via the device. […]

A bus stop billboard on London’s Oxford Street is using face recognition technology to target and only display the ad to women, according to an article from The Independent. While the face recognition technology doesn’t work as most face recognition technology does, to determine the actual identity of the person in question, this one scans […]

EyeVerify, a company founded in Kansas City, Mo., has developed a new mode of eye-based biometric authentication that authenticates people by the unique vein pattern in the whites of an individual’s eye, according to a Silicon Prairie News article. Moreover, the new development is only software and EyeVerify intends to push the solution as a […]

The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia breached the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act when it offered to help police agencies identify participants in the Vancouver riots following the city’s loss in the 2011 NHL Stanley Cup finals via their face recognition technology, according to a Canadian Underwriter article. Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham […]

3M Cogent announced that it’s biometric access control readers have passed the United States Transportation Security Administration’s Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) Initial Capability Evaluation (ICE) assessment. The two readers that have landed on the TWIC ICE Fixed Reader list, which is a list of the TWIC approved biometric devices, are the MiY-ID and MiY-Card. […]

The Ghana Electoral Commission (EC) Chairman, Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, announced that biometric registration of Ghanaian citizens registered to vote will begin on March 24 and is expected to finish on May 5, according to a Ghana Business News article. To collect the necessary data from the voter’s in Ghana, the commission has purchased 7,000 biometric registration […]

DigitalPersona announced it has deployed biometric solutions to help manage the security of protected health information to better comply with industry regulations at Saratoga Hospital. The hospital implementedthe DigitalPersona Pro software and U.are.U Fingerprint Readers, which will enable the hospital to restrict access to patient records to only those responsible for their care and fall […]

After the murder of jeweler Manoj Kumar Grandhi visiting from Visakhapatnam by three cab drivers, the police in Bangalore, India are considering asking the various cab companies in the region to begin collecting biometrics from their drivers for background checks, according to a Times of India article. Before the police move forward with trying to […]