Although it wasn't called biometrics at the time, a rudimentary form of the technology emerged in 1901 when Scotland Yard adopted fingerprint classification to identify criminal suspects. The ...

The company limited the collection of facial recognition information to employees when it started a security pilot program in ...

With enterprises constantly on the lookout for better security, biometrics is increasingly seen as a better alternative for authenticating digital identities than outdated authentication methods such ...

The lawmakers introduced legislation that would set departmentwide standards in an effort to prevent misuse and strengthen ...

House Democrats are moving to slow the rapid spread of mobile facial recognition and fingerprint tools inside the Department ...

Effective IT security is in high demand, and a large variety of industries such as banking, government, education, health care and the military view biometrics solutions as a key part of the solution.

Driving Passwordless Adoption with FIDO and Biometric Authentication - 06:13 For decades, passwords have been the default ...

Mobile biometrics is also providing schools, universities and hospitals a converged physical and logical access control solution. The approach is straightforward. One device should support multiple ...

Critics warn that the plan would create an unprecedented surveillance architecture with inadequate safeguards and ...

Biometric identification is a foundational part of the United States’ immigration and transportation systems — a quick and, by many measures, secure and fraud-deterring way to confirm individuals’ ...

The results are in. And as it turns out, despite the naysayers, Americans are happy about the use of biometric security measures at airports. The U.S. Travel Association, in conjunction with Ipsos, ...