Lumidigm announced a partnership with Tiger IT Bangladesh Limited to bring a criminal identity solution that utilizes iris recognition and will also offer fingerprint recognition sensors from Lumidigm. The Lumidigm solution that is being incorporated into the solution, which is being developed for the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) office in Bangladesh, is its multispectral Venus […]

SmartMetric announced it has leased a manufacturing plant in Buenos Aires, Argentina where it plans to manufacture fingerprint activated smart cards. These cards are being developed with industries such as banking, medical insurance and government or other high-security identification industries in mind. In addition to opening up the potential for quick deployment to South American […]

The 25,000 VIPs, including athletes, coaches and officials, arriving for the summer Olympics in London through Heathrow International Airport will have a dedicated passport lane just for them when passing through immigration, according to a Daily Mail article. The UK Border Agency, however, is worried what the dedicated traffic lane will mean for non-VIP travelers […]

The Nepalese Election Commission (EC) has completed nearly all its biometric voter registration as all but one district and just shy of 10 million citizens have been enrolled, according to a My Republica article. The final district to begin enrollment, Banke, is slated to begin by Jan. 5 and by completed by the end of […]

The UK and Ireland have struck a deal wherein they will share information from visa applications including fingerprint data, according to a BBC News article. The UK Border Agency expects the new partnership to not only enhance its ability in detecting illegal immigrants, but also result in cost savings. This will potentially lead to a […]

The Philippine Government has decided to rely on a biometric system to ensure only families that legitimately qualify for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Grant are receiving the financial aid, according to a Business World Online article. While the Social Welfare Secretary, Corazon J. Soliman, has acknowledged that the number crunching is still […]

Retail operations are finding biometric point-of-sale systems that are used for both tracking employee actions as well as for time and attendance are a great tool in fighting inventory shrink and labor fraud, according to a Point of Sale News article. Among the regular employee actions that such systems are able to stop include buddy […]

The facial recognition feature that’s part of the most recent incarnation of the Android mobile device operating system called Ice Cream Sandwich is being panned as very easily fooled, according to an Information Week article. The feature, which uses a front-facing camera to enable a registered user access to the phone and any features within, […]

Biometric projects and related systems are giving the lower economic class of citizens in developing countries a better chance to take part in the economic and social growth in countries such as India, according to a Slate article. In India, the national Unique ID project that will issue unique identification numbers to all citizens attached […]

Researchers in the U.S. are working towards a system that can detect if someone is lying as well as if they are angry or drunk by their voice alone, according to a Homeland Security News Wire article. Among the researchers working on such technologies are Julia Hirschberg from Columbia University and Shrikanth Narayanan from the […]