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The use of biological markers like fingerprints, faces and irises to identify people is rapidly moving from science fiction to reality.
Apple’s latest iPhone, which went on sale this week, can be unlocked with a fingerprint. Users of Android smartphones can unlock their devices with a glance. And the Federal Bureau of Investigation isdeveloping facial recognition technology that would allow it to pinpoint criminals and suspects in large crowds of people with closed-circuit cameras.
Once so expensive that it was used only by the military or high-tech companies, biometric technology has become so commonplace that even some schools and hospitals are using it. Its adoption could make sensitive information more secure than conventional identification cards or passwords, which can be easily forgotten, lost or hacked. But it also has the potential to undermine privacy, which has been greatly compromised by recent revelations about government surveillance of phone and Internet communications.
In fact, biometrics are not as safe as is often thought. A 2010 report from the National Research Council concluded that such systems are “inherently fallible” because they identify people within certain degrees of certainty and because biological markers are relatively easy to copy. For example, people leave their fingerprints on everything they touch, which makes those fingerprints available to any determined spy or law enforcement agent. Experts have shown that fingerprints and other markers can be copied, giving hackers and thieves access to private information. And once compromised, fingerprints cannot be reset, like passwords, or replaced, like passports.
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- Iris biometrics coming to three national ID programson June 10, 2023 at 10:42 am
Iris biometrics being added to Pakistan’s national ID system with support from Iris ID, Jordan’s via IrisGuard, and Togo’s by Idemia and Atos.
- Live biometrics checks ‘the only way’ to prevent identity scams in financeon June 9, 2023 at 9:01 am
Some Asian economies are fairly far ahead of the West when it comes to implementing biometrics for financial fraud prevention.
- Precise Biometrics CEO Patrick Höijer on the recently completed rights issue and the futureon June 8, 2023 at 11:00 pm
CEO Patrick Höijer comments on the recently completed rights issue, which brings the company a little over SEK 40 million after issue costs, as well the next phase of the company's development, which ...
- CP: Biometrics of 13,000 criminals to be ready soonon June 8, 2023 at 7:52 pm
Nagpur: City police chief Amitesh Kumar on Thursday said biometric (fingerprint, iris and palm scan) data of around 13,000 accused in different crimes.
- University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Secure Access to Epic Hyperdrive with BIO-key PortalGuard® and Identity-Bound Biometricson June 8, 2023 at 5:03 am
BIO-key International, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKYI), an innovative provider of workforce and customer identity and access management (IAM) solutions featuring Identity-Bound Biometrics (IBB), announced that it ...
- How to Allow or Block Domain Users From Using Biometrics on Windows 11on June 7, 2023 at 9:15 am
Double-click on the Allow domain users to log on using biometrics policy in the right pane. Choose the Enabled option to allow biometrics log on for the domain users. And choose the Disabled option to ...
- Seven-Eleven stores in Japan to let consumers access ATM services via face biometricson June 7, 2023 at 3:34 am
Seven Bank, a division of Seven-Eleven Japan's parent company Seven & i Holdings, is to let consumers use face biometrics to deposit and withdraw cash and perform banking services at 20,000 ATMs in ...
- UAE to integrate biometrics of school students into population registryon June 6, 2023 at 9:20 pm
The process is conducted through field visits, eliminating the need for pupils to visit customer happiness centres ...
- Animal Biometrics: Pakistan’s Innovative Solution to Combat Animal Burglaryon June 5, 2023 at 3:50 am
Syed Umaid Ahmed, a Ph.D. Scholar at FAST-NUCES in Karachi, Pakistan, along with his colleagues, has embarked on a groundbreaking project called Animal Biometrics.
- Car-Free Cities Are the Future, Biometrics Revealon June 2, 2023 at 4:01 am
People walking and biking on car-free Summer Streets event along Park Avenue in New York City. Credit: Wirestock/ Until now it has been impossible to peer into the human mind, but new biometric and ...
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- NYC Starbucks, Amazon Patrons File New Suit Over Biometric Scanson June 9, 2023 at 1:23 pm
New York City customers of Amazon.com Inc. and Starbucks Corp. have joined forces to refile previous claims that the companies violated a local biometric surveillance law in a proposed class ...
- Face biometrics deployed for cardless ATM transactions at Japan’s Seven-Elevenson June 9, 2023 at 9:22 am
Seven Bank will allow customers to make deposits and withdrawals using facial recognition at 20,000 ATMs in Seven-Elevens nationally.
- Live biometrics checks ‘the only way’ to prevent identity scams in financeon June 9, 2023 at 9:01 am
Some Asian economies are fairly far ahead of the West when it comes to implementing biometrics for financial fraud prevention.
- Refugee-focused Digital ID Uses Biometric Onboardingon June 7, 2023 at 9:53 am
Vouched is providing a selfie-based onboarding system for the platform; as FreedomID explains, an end user is asked to upload a live selfie and an image of their photo ID, along with information ...
- Chinese 'palm pay' technology rollout brings CCP closer to 'total social control' of citizens: Gordon Changon June 7, 2023 at 2:00 am
Gordon Chang says Tencent's new biometric palm payment technology brings the Chinese Communist Party one step closer to “total social control" of its citizens.
- Facial recognition technology row is Hamlet without the biometric printson June 6, 2023 at 9:00 pm
It is a red herring to conflate body-worn cameras with this tech, which has been controversial in every state where it has been mooted; and with very good reason ...
- FTC to Scrutinize Commercial Use of Biometric Information Moving Forwardon June 2, 2023 at 4:50 pm
Per the release, the FTC intends to look closely at a company’s use of biometric technology for: Deception: including “false of unsubstantiated marketing claims relating to the validity ...
- Samsung Biometric Card IC gets a promo videoon June 2, 2023 at 4:10 am
The Samsung Biometric Card IC was unveiled at CES in January and now Samsung has released some more details about the technology, including a new video ...
- As use of facial recognition tech grows, so do privacy concernson May 31, 2023 at 3:31 pm
Others — like the Minnesota Robotics Institute at the University of Minnesota with its biometric technology for detecting signs of depression, cancer or diabetic retinopathy — are creating ...
- 3 principles biometric vendors should embrace to promote trust in facial recognition technologyon May 28, 2023 at 6:17 pm
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More As the rapid deployment of facial recognition and ...
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