Last week at FindBiometrics Physical Access & Enterprise Month continued with a look at the hidden benefits of biometrics in the workplace while we prepared for this week’s featured webinar presentation. Behavioral biometrics and financial applications each took the spotlight in the news while the headlines were filled out with national ID, border control, facial recognition, and more.
Here is a look back on last week’s top stories in identity management:
Physical Access And The Enterprise Of Tomorrow
Only two days remain until the next entry in our renowned webinar series, Biometrics, Physical Access and the Enterprise of Tomorrow (UPDATE 4/20/2016- The full webinar is now available to watch on YouTube). The webcast is part of our month long featured examination of physical access control and enterprise applications, which had us looking at the less obvious ways biometrics can improve the workplace last Wednesday. In the news we saw enterprise solutions integrate Touch ID functionality, looked back on ISC West with BioConnect, and saw Cognitec upgrade its FaceVACS-Entry solution.
Physical Access & Enterprise Month: 3 Hidden Benefits to Biometrics in the Workplace
Kiteworks Enterprise Data Security Platform Supports Touch ID
Airmail Email Client Gets Touch ID Support
BioConnect Highlights ISC West Trends
Cognitec Upgrades FaceVACS-Entry
Fingerprints
Fingerprint Cards was in the news last week with its biometric sensor featured on the new ivvi i3 handset. The company also announced that it will be presenting its latest interim report, followed by a conference call, on April 28.
ivvi i3 Smartphone Launches With FPC Biometric Sensor
FPC to Present Interim Report April 28th
Behavioral Biometrics
Two reports had us looking at the future of specific behavioral modalities last week, namely gait and keystroke biometrics. In the meantime we learned about a partnership between Nationwide, BehavioSec, and Unisys that aims to use behavioral biometrics to reduce the logical access headache that is modern password security.
TechNavio Predicts Growth for Keystroke Biometrics
Gait Biometrics Market to Make Strides: Report
BehavioSec, Nationwide, Unisys Team Up on Biometrics
Border Control
Last week we learned that Charles de Gualle Airport in Paris is going to be trialing facial recognition technology for security purposes. Vision-Box was in the news too, with its founders being presented with the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award.
Charles de Gaulle Airport to Trial Facial Recognition System
Vision-Box Founders Win Portuguese EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award
Financial
FinTech was a hot area as usual last week with Samsung Pay gaining support from ProPay and itself announcing that it will soon enable in-app purchases. In the meantime, rumblings out of Australia had the Internet speculating as to whether the country’s banks will be finally supporting Apple Pay. Outside of the mobile wallet sphere, a new biometrics initiative in Japan is aiming to combine border control and biometric payments in time for its next Olympics and Atom Bank launched, bringing biometric login features with its digital banking services.
Samsung Pay To Support In-App Purchases
Are Australian Banks Finally Going To Support Apple Pay?
Japan Tourism Project to Swap Credit Cards, Passports for Fingerprints
ProPay Has Announced Samsung Pay Support
Atom Bank Launches Biometric App
National ID
We reported on the ways Aadhaar is enabling biometric banking in India last week while we learned more details surrounding the Comelec data hack in the Philippines. Meanwhile, in Zimbabwe, we saw a call for biometric payroll distribution on behalf of Prosper Chitambara, a senior economist at the country’s Labour and Economic Development Research Institute.
Aadhaar Finding Impactful Links to Banking
Senior Economist Calls for Zimbabwe Gov’t to Implement Biometric Payroll
Hack Attacks Did Not Breach Biometric Data, Comelec Says
Government, Law Enforcement
MorphoTrust USA scored SAFETY Act certification for two of its flagship solutions last week while Precise Biometrics announced that it has won a contract to provide a Tactivo framework to the US Department of Defense. MorphoTrak made the news too, preparing for its annual Users Conference in Costa Mesa, California, announcing that Jeff Bauman, a key witness in the Boston Marathon bombing, will be presenting a keynote at the event.
Boston Marathon Bombing Witness to be Keynote Speaker at MorphoTrak Event
Precise Biometrics Wins Tactivo Framework Agreement From DLA
MorphoTrust Solutions Get SAFETY Act Approval
Facial Recognition
Facial recognition and privacy were in the news last week with Shutterfly settling an Illinois lawsuit and also a Russian photographer highlighting the ease in which one can uncover personal details of strangers by using a face recognition and the social network VKontakte. It wasn’t all controversy though. Last week we got a look at how facial recognition can be applied to drones for optimal selfie taking.
App Can Track Down Faces on Russian Social Network
Shutterfly Settles Biometrics Privacy Case
Drone Uses Facial Recognition For Optimal Selfies
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April 18, 2016 – by Peter B. Counter
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