Effective IT security is in high demand, and a large variety of industries such as banking, government, education, health care and the military view biometrics solutions as a key part of the solution.

The influx of digital identity fraud is driving the adoption of more secure identity verification methods, like the use of biometric authentication tools. These solutions are much more capable of ...

Biometric security devices — which authenticate a person’s identity on the basis of physical characteristics, such as a fingerprint — have been available in one form or another for 30 years. But ...

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 ...

As biometric tools become common in consumer, workplace and public settings, it’s important to understand both what these ...

While biometric access control may be more commonly implemented in government facilities and high-end applications, the reality is that in addition to these traditional users, many more adopters are ...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Ayanna Pressley recently introduced legislation that would ban government agencies from using facial recognition technology, claiming that it ...

As economic inequality, demographic shifts, regional conflicts, and environmental risks reshape migration flows, securing the ...

Explains concerns about biometric data, clarifying that while fingerprints or iris scans can technically be extracted from ...

When many of us think of biometrics, we think of fingerprints or facial recognition systems that analyze faces from photos or videos and match them to sets of previously acquired data. However, ...

With enterprises constantly on the lookout for better security, biometrics is increasingly seen as a better alternative for authenticating digital identities than outdated authentication methods such ...

Precise Biometrics, a global leader in biometric security, access and identity management, today announced that its latest touchless palm recognition technology has achieved a new performance mileston ...