US Biometric and identity intelligence programme
While technology has made life more automated and easier, it has also allowed nefarious persons to clone or forge passports, including the biometric data...
Vending Machine Matches User ID to Unique Vein Pattern
Biometric authentication provider FinGo has launched a retail solution that integrates its biometric payment and age verification technologies. At a FinGoVend vending machine, the user (customer)...
Part 1: The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
Introduction
There are many devices, computers, workstations, wireless devices, and even IT infrastructures that are now interconnected amongst one another. There is a technical term...
Artificial Intelligence & the SOC
Introduction
On a daily basis, the news headlines keep pouring out stories about the number of cyberattacks that are taking place. In fact, every day,...
Part 2: Seeing eye to eye on iris recognition
Ravi Das
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, the use of biometrics increased dramatically as a means of positively verifying and/or identifying an individual....
From policing to passport control
Identity verification at passport control, in policing, and in retail stores is most often achieved by matching an individual’s face to a photographic identity...
India to launch world’s largest facial recognition system
India’s central government approved the implementation of its Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS) across the country beginning in 2021.
Biometric Update reports AFRS will allow...
SPS introduces digital passport inlays and eCovers
Smart Packaging Solutions (SPS) is now offering a new security component to ePassport vendors and governments: digital passport inlays and eCovers that include a...
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History of the U.S. Passport: Part 7
In his comprehensive history of the U.S. passport, Tom Topol—passport expert, collector, and author of Let Pass or Die—has followed the evolution of this...
