As we’ve seen in our Primer and our look at the FIDO Alliance for On-Device Biometrics Month, there’s a wide range of areas in which the on-device approach to biometric data and authentication can be usefully applied. But one of the most important of these application areas is only just starting to come into view,…
Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) is moving forward with plans to use biometric devices for the country’s upcoming Presidential election on September 28th. The fingerprint scanners are the same ones that were used in the country’s Parliamentary election last October. That’s also the reason the decision is coming under fire from political observers. An independent…
The government of Kenya has automated law enforcement human resources. Specifically, the Ministry of the Interior has implemented a National Police Service Information Management System, registering the rank and information of every person in the country’s Administration Police Service, National Police Service, and Department of Criminal Investigations. The enrollment process included biometric registration for each…
Zwipe has announced new white label fingerprint enrollment solutions aimed at enabling financial institutions to easily get their customers registered for biometric payment cards. One of the solutions is an at-home enrollment kit designed to be mailed to customers – the solution is thin enough to be mailed in a standard envelope. Once received, a…