In an effort to deal with the problem of poor fingerprint quality, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) hopes to introduce iris-based authentication this quarter, reports Business Standard. When residents enroll for the Aadhaar benefits program, they give both fingerprint and iris scans to eliminate duplicates. Now the iris scans can be used as […]

The Canadian Forces is expanding its ability to collect biometric data for potential use by other federal government departments, reports the Ottawa Citizen. The military began collecting biometric data on detainees and suspicious individuals in Afghanistan. In April 2010, a directive ordered the military to collect information on other people as well and develop biometric […]

The University of Southampton in the UK is starting a cybersecurity research center, thanks to government funding, reports the BBC. The government has funded eight universities to study the subject matter, which includes bank, border and national infrastructure security. The University of Southampton will use the funds to continue its research in the biometrics field. […]

Goode Intelligence founder Alan Goode recently blogged about Smart Mobile Identity and the next generation of mobile-based authentication and identity verification products. Goode writes that mobile authentication is transforming from porting current authentication methods into a mobile environment to mobile services designing authentication applications specifically for mobile devices. These methods are leveraging different mobile features […]

Access IS launched the desktop OCR640, its latest version of a “full-page” passport reader intended for scanning both e-passports and ID cards. The images of a passport photo page are captured in IR, UV and visible light to help improve authentication. The OCR640 also reads all the stored data from a chip within an e-passport […]

The latest draft of FIPS 201-2 has been much anticipated. The first revision was released in March 2011 and was met with groans as it also received more than 1,200 submitted public comments. Some 15-months later another draft has been released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and this version is seeing a […]

Hospitals have begun implementing biometrics as a way to verify, authenticate and maintain the safety of patient records. While fingerprint and palm prints are common ways of capturing biometrics, iris scans may be the best solution for this industry, reports Becker’s Hospital Review. Some hospitals have begun implementing iris scans because it’s as unique an […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a new software suite called Biometric Conformance Test Software for Data Interchange Formats (BioCTS2012) for biometrics users to test biometrics apps against the NIST standard. The software tests against the ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011 standard, which provides a defined method for digitally encoding and storing biometric data. […]

A team of researchers in the United States and Spain set out to understand the iris biometric algorithm and determine whether any structure in the code could be exploited. They claim to have found a potential to fool an iris matching system, but as is often the case with publicized ‘hacks,’ others note that they […]

AOptix and Certis CISCO announced a partnership that will provide iris and face recognition solutions for biometric security systems in Singapore. AOptix will offer its iris recognition and face capture systems to customers using biometrics for identity verification in aviation security among other applications. Certis will bring its expertise with security solutions as well as […]