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Schools need permission to take pupils’ fingerprints

May 18, 2012 | Comments (0)

Schools will need permission from parents before they can take pupil’s fingerprints or scan their faces, ministers said. Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/899192-schools-need-permission-to-take-pupils-fingerprints#ixzz1vDWUgHdu

Miaxis and AuthenTec Announce First Volume Deployments of Miaxis Bank ID Terminals Integrating AuthenTec Sensors by Major Chinese Banks

March 26, 2012 | Comments (0)

Miaxis and AuthenTec Announce First Volume Deployments of Miaxis Bank ID Terminals Integrating AuthenTec Sensors by Major Chinese Banks – AuthenTec TouchChip® sensors integrated into Miaxis bank ID terminals deployed throughout China to reduce bank teller fraud – Bank of China among leading Chinese banks using Miaxis’ new fingerprint biometric systems enabled by AuthenTec sensors [...]

Is Fingerprint Security at the Cabinet Affordable?

March 22, 2012 | Comments (1)

Mark Hirst, product manager for Cannon Technologies’ T4 Data Centre Solutions, is a Data Center design expert with a background in electronic control systems and industrial networks. Data center security has always been an issue for anyone involved in commissioning and maintaining a data center, but the falling costs of technology over the last few [...]

Japanese bank allow customers to use PalmVein Biometrics to access ATMs

April 17, 2012 | Comments (0)

“You are the cash card”, apparently Japan-based Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank is claiming to be the first in the world set to offer its customers the option of using ATM services without the need for a cash card or passbook, thanks to palm-scanning biometric technology from Fujitsu. Read the full story at www.theregister.co.uk

M2SYS Technology Partners with Hitachi to Offer Innovative Biometric Finger Vein Scanner to US Market

April 17, 2012 | Comments (0)

Hitachi Europe Ltd. and M2SYS Technology today announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership making M2SYS Hitachi’s primary Value Added Reseller in North America for the H1 Biometric Finger Vein scanner. Biometric Finger Vein identity management scanning technology was developed by Hitachi to provide safer and more secure authentication for access control and [...]

Isbank deploys Hitachi biometric tech at ATMs and branches

March 8, 2012 | Comments (0)

Turkey’s Isbank has installed around 3400 Hitachi biometric finger vein scanners in ATMs and branches across the country, enabling customers to withdraw cash without a card. Hitachi’s finger vein authentication technology uses light to read the unique pattern of veins inside the finger. The system is widespread in Japan, where more than 75,000 finger vein-based [...]

INSIDE Secure Brings Biometric ON-Card matching Security to SecuRead NFC Solution

DelaneySecure | July 30, 2011 | Comments (0)

Teams With Neurotechnology and TazTag to Demonstrate High Privacy Two-Factor Security for NFC Applications at Mobile World Congress AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, February 3, 2011 – INSIDE Secure, a leader in semiconductor solutions for secure transactions and digital identity, today announced the availability of biometric on-card matching capabilities for its SecuRead™ system-in-package NFC solution, enabling manufacturers of [...]

First Commercial Fingerprint Sensor Software Development Kit (SDK) for Android Smartphones

DelaneySecure | August 3, 2011 | Comments (0)

Free SDK allows developers to create apps that leverage the unique personalization and security features of AuthenTec smart sensors in Android-based phones MELBOURNE, Fla., August 3, 2011 – AuthenTec (NASDAQ: AUTH), a leading provider of security and identity management solutions, today announced the immediate availability of their new software development kit (SDK) for fingerprint sensor [...]

New SentiSight 3.0 SDK – a universal object recognition technology and software development kit

DelaneySecure | August 30, 2011 | Comments (0)

Neurotechnology would like to inform all biometric developers about the release of the SentiSight 3.0 SDK – a universal object recognition technology and software development kit. The SentiSight 3.0 has a number of new features and improved existing functionality: * New shape-based recognition algorithm allows to recognize most objects that are not recognized by the [...]

AuthenTec TouchChip Fingerprint Sensors Selected for BI2 Technology’s New MORIS™ Multifactor Mobile ID Terminal for Law Enforcement

DelaneySecure | September 15, 2011 | Comments (0)

Provides Android and iPhones with Tri-modal Mobile ID capability FIPS 201-compliant TCS1 TouchChip module adds fingerprint identification capability to MORIS’ iris and facial recognition capabilities MELBOURNE, Fla., September 5, 2011 – AuthenTec (NASDAQ: AUTH), a leading provider of security and identity management solutions, announced today that its TCEFC1 TouchChip module with the FIPS-201 approved TCS1 [...]

Soon, typing style to become ‘digital fingerprint’

peter.craig | May 18, 2012 | Comments (0)

Melbourne: Typing styles are as unique as fingerprints and could soon be used to verify the identity of computer users, according to a new study. The Queensland University of Technology’s Eesa Al Solami has developed an algorithmic system to analyse typists’ keystroke dynamics, the Daily Telegraph reported. The unique striking pattern will allow computers to [...]

Biometric apps for Kinect: Microsoft wants to avoid creeping everybody out

peter.craig | May 18, 2012 | Comments (0)

A woman walks into a store, and a computer recognizes her, welcomes her by name, compliments her on the weight she’s lost, and points out that the store has lots of good deals in her new size — which happens to be two sizes larger than she had been telling her friends, who are with [...]

VeriEye from Neurotechnology Judged One of the Fastest and Most Accurate Iris Recognition Algorithms in NIST IREX III Evaluation

peter.craig | April 23, 2012 | Comments (0)

Neurotechnology’s VeriEye Placed in the Top Four for Iris Recognition Accuracy and the Top Two for Speed Among Algorithms from 11 Participating Companies and Universities VILNIUS, Lithuania, April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has judged the VeriEye iris recognition algorithm from Neurotechnology to be among the fastest and [...]

Istanbul Police help lost Alzheimer’s patients get home with fingerprint system

peter.craig | March 19, 2012 | Comments (0)

The İstanbul Police Department is attempting to end the nightmare of losing a loved one with a mental disability or Alzheimer’s disease with a new fingerprint identity system. The police have begun taking the fingerprints of people with Alzheimer’s disease or a mental disability so that they will be able to determine their identity, by [...]

Facial ID system mulled to speed up airport immigration – The Japan Times

peter.craig | March 18, 2012 | Comments (0)

The Justice Ministry is considering introducing a facial identification system at airports to automate and speed up immigration procedures, officials said Saturday. The ministry will begin test demonstrations as early as this summer. According to the plan, the system first would be used for Japanese travelers, while authorities continue to fingerprint foreign nationals as part [...]

Judge rules fingerprint jail security is unlawful

peter.craig | March 18, 2012 | Comments (0)

TWO Scottish prisons are facing mandatory amendments to their security procedures following a legal ruling on the use of biometric fingerprinting. HMP Addiewell in West Lothian and HMP Kilmarnock in Ayrshire have for years insisted visitors complete a fingerprint scan on entry, but a lawyer has now successfully challenged the process under the European Convention [...]