Pilot facial recognition programs conducted shortly after 9/11 showed that the technology did not live up to hype. Almost a decade later, however, facial recognition has improved and is now showing viability as a standalone technology. Still, the idea of...
West Virginia University in Morgantown and the FBI are collaborating in a biometrics data collection study that could help change the way biometric technology is used. For students, it means a quick $40 for a 45-minute study covering background information,...
Some scoff at the idea of emerging biometrics, saying that the identification technology as a whole is still emerging. In reality, however, fingerprints have been used to identify criminals for nearly a century and around the world biometrics are used...
UK’s Association of School and College Leaders, representing secondary school and college personnel, is fighting legislation that forces schools to seek approval from both parents before they can use their child’s biometric data. It would be a “huge bureaucratic burden”...
Instead of signing in, as employees at India’s Karnatak University normally do, they’ll now have to register their attendance with fingerprints, according to the Times of India. The manual system had caused problems for the university’s department heads, preventing them...
SecuGen announced a technology and marketing partnership with access control developer Lucky Technology to develop biometric access solutions for North American schools. The solution integrates Lucky’s iGuard Access Control device and SecuGen’s SDA03M fingerprint module. It is ideal, the companies...
Angus County in Scotland, UK, where the county council education chief Peter Nield has come out in support of fingerprint biometrics to be used as a form of identity management in schools, is finding growing concern over use of such...
Dates: November 3-4, 2010 Location: New York, NY Venue: Jacob K. Javits Convention Center URL: http://www.iscsolutions.com Description: ISC East is now ISC Solutions! ISC Solutions is much more than a name change – it is a reinvented event based on...
Biometric Signature ID (BSI) announced positive results from a study of their software-only approach to biometric authentication for students using PCs. The new solution utilizes gesture biometrics via a user’s mouse and is envisioned to provide distance-learning students a more...
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Great inverview on the Public Key Open Credential (PKOC) standard with ELATEC's Jason Ouellette, Chairman of the Board for the @PSIAlliance.
Attn: friends in the biometrics space. Nominations close Friday for the annual Women in Biometrics Awards. Take five minutes to recognize a colleague or even yourself. http://WomenInBiometrics.com
