The FINANCIAL — Visa Inc. on September 15 introduced a new specification to use biometrics with chip card transactions. The specification can enable palm, voice, iris, or facial biometrics. This first ...

BERLIN – Executives from the chip-card industry are excited by the prospect of using cards carrying digital biometric data to improve speed and security in banking, immigration, and other activities ...

Biometric authentication—using fingerprints, facial recognition or even iris recognition—has become an integral part of our society and digital security. I'm asked questions about about this topic ...

You unlock your phone with your face, your fingerprint sends your laptop whirring into action, you pass airport security by ...

The outgoing U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Tom Ridge, called for a new international standard for putting biometric data such as fingerprints on passports. In a speech Friday at the ...

The U.K. Passport Service (UKPS) today launched its six-month trial of biometric technology involving 10,000 volunteers, the same day that the U.K. government introduced a draft bill that could ...

Although it wasn't called biometrics at the time, a rudimentary form of the technology emerged in 1901 when Scotland Yard adopted fingerprint classification to identify criminal suspects. The ...

The passport component supplier is facing scrutiny over ownership links to Chinese investment firms that have been placed on ...