The University of Southern California, a private, not-for-profit school in central Los Angeles, recently installed fingerprint scanners in each of its 14 dormitories to better secure access. Prior to the fingerprint scanner installation, a simple swipe of the student’s ID...
Human Recognition Systems (HRS) will launch its student identity and attendance verification platform to the university sector at the UKCISA Annual Conference at the University of Glasgow. As visa restrictions on international students are tightened, universities must ensure accurate reporting...
Match-on-card technology marries biometrics with smart cards, enabling users to not only carry their biometric with them but also match it on the card. This means greater privacy for the cardholder and the ability to authenticate without connection to a...
Boston University has announced that it is using CBORD’s CS Gold campus card system for its campus ID system. In the search for a secure, campus experience, Boston University officials decided on the CBORD solution and its iCLASS contactless cards...
Since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks facial recognition has been both touted as a magic bullet for spotting terrorists in a crowd and derided as an invasion of privacy. In truth, the technologies true application lays somewhere in the...
In an effort to offer more protection for its students, the University of Southern California is installing fingerprint scanners at the entrance of all on-campus residence facilities. Students have until the end of this week to get their fingerprints scanned...
As schools in the United States begin implementing biometric data gathering to expedite processes such as lunch payments and bus rides, Anita Ramasastry writes on Justia that parents should also be concerned with privacy issues surrounding gathering this information on...
Dates: September 18-20, 2012 Location: Tampa, Florida Venue: Tampa Convention Center URL: http://www.biometricconference.com/ Description: The 2012 Biometric Consortium Conference and Technology Expo, presented by AFCEA, NIST and NSA, will address the important role that biometrics plays in identification and verification...
The British government has advised that schools will not be able to use students’ biometric data unless parents consent, reports politics.co.uk. The government’s advice, released on Tuesday for consultation, was updated to include items from the newly enacted Freedoms Act...
Once the stuff of sci-fi and spy flicks, facial recognition technology has evolved into a concrete reality touching nearly everyone on the planet. In the pre-Google, pre-cloud computing era, the technology required for these facial recognition systems was exclusively in...
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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
Feb. 1 webinar explores how mobile ordering enhanced campus life, increased sales at UVA and Central Washington @Grubhub @CBORD
