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Biometrics – The Future In The Palm of Your Hand!
Biometrics is the study of unchanging measurable biological characteristics that are unique to each individual - such as fingerprints or irises. Biometrics can be implemented by: companies, governments, military, border control, hospitals, banks, etc. to either verify a person's identity for something like limiting or allowing access to a certain building area, computer files, border crossings, or to identify individuals to record information about them such as with criminals, for example.
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Logical Access Control - Justice / Law Enforcement
- Time and Attendance
- HealthCare Biometrics
- Border Control / Airports
- Financial and Transactional
- Biometrics Integrators and Resellers
- Mobile Biometrics
- Fingerprint and Biometrics Locks
- Consumer / Residential Biometrics
- Other Uses of Biometrics
Biometrics Characteristics
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Biometrics characteristics are often classed in two main categories: 1) Physiological Biometrics - features notably identified through the 5 senses and processed by finite calculable differences: Sight (how a person looks including things like hair & eye color, teeth, or facial features), Sound (the pitch of a person's voice), Smell (a person's odor or scent), Taste (the composition of a person's saliva - or DNA), Touch (such as fingerprints or hand-prints). 2) Behavioral Biometrics - based on the manner in which a person conducts themselves, such as: writing style, walking rhythm, typing speed, etc. In order for any of these characteristics to be used in sustained identification encryption purposes, they must meet the criteria of: reliable, unique, collectable, convenient, longevity, universal, and acceptable. |
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Currently, Biometrics is used with humans under two circumstances: Voluntarily for things like: employment, access to special services, information or protection, and Involuntarily for criminal identification and border control. As the technology improves and the implementation costs decrease, it will become more and more a part of our lives - especially in areas such as: the USA, UK, Europe, Japan, Middle East, Australia and Canada.
The Acceptance of the Use of Biometrics
The main concern for clients of biometrics devices is the accuracy of measurability, and cost effectiveness. Again, as technology improves and costs decrease, identification and verification systems will be implemental by industries who find it in their best interest (cost vs. necessity) to safeguard their data and assets.
The main concerns for the general public acceptance of the voluntary use of biometrics identification are: privacy, necessity and identity protection. Many individuals are concerned that information collected about them could be used against them such as medical records preventing them from the ability to get health or critical illness insurance. The other concern about biometrics, is the information getting into the wrong hands. This being said, when the convenience of the use of these devices is met with the confidence in their effectiveness and secure-ability they will become culturally accepted.
It is clear that biometrics will be a huge part of our future. findBiometrics.com is dedicated to giving you the most up-dated information in the Biometrics industry. Whether you are a system integrator or business looking for biometrics solutions, or a consumer looking to protect yourself and your family, you will find what you're looking for right here with one of our Biometrics Solutions and Applications.
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ePassports and eVisas – Report On Developement of International Best Practices: Underwear Bombers and Mossad Agents Beware
Standardization of eVisas and ePassports will allow consistent market growth and an established market atmosphere. Standardization will generate predictable and reliable internationally integrated solutions and a more stable market environment.
Frost & Sullivan Finds Vast Potential for Biometrics Industry in APAC
Voice biometrics, which has always been in the shadow of physiological biometrics showed promise in 2009 with banks in Asia and Europe testing voice biometrics for banking verification. There is room for improvement in making the technology more accurate, but biometric participants have plenty of promise for the coming years.
Hi-Tech Solutions Implements Vehicle Identity Recognition in Combination with License Plate Recognition Systems
In controlled areas such as airports, license plate recognition systems with the vehicle logos recognition feature can be installed at access lanes, automatically monitoring the vehicles entering and exiting the area, detecting any discrepancies between the vehicle type and its license plate number.
NEC's Facial Recognition Technology Achieves First Place in the Still-Face Dataset of the NIST Multiple Biometric Grand Challenge
NEC Corporation ranked number one in the Still-Face Dataset of the Multiple Biometric Grand Challenge (MBGC, (1)) carried out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), commissioned by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. NEC's face recognition technology has solidified an industry-leading position by attaining this first place ranking among all major vendors.
Assuring Adequate Penalties for Identity Theft; New Report Looks at Statutes, Cases, and Solutions
As biometric immigration-control programs become more widespread in the United States (including E-Verify, US-Visit, REAL ID, and the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative), the fake identities illegal aliens and criminals have traditionally used will no longer pass muster — they will increasingly have to use a real person's identity information to be "verified" under these initiatives, rather than just making up numbers and other informati
Biometric Identity a Must For Faculty Recruitment
The central government will start collecting biometric identity of teachers engaged in engineering and management institutions to curb malpractices by the faculty, an official said Sunday. "We will record biometric identity of all faculties working in technical educational institutions - all engineering and management colleges - from now on," All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) chairman S.S. Mantha told IANS.
Iris ID Systems Inc. Formed from the Spin-off of LG Electronics USA Iris Technology Division
Iris ID will continue to leverage its industry expertise, product portfolio and extensive channel program to provide solutions to its global customers. All manufacturing operations will remain in Korea, while product research, marketing and sales will be conducted in the IRIS ID Cranbury, N.J. facility.
India’s Punjab National Bank will Service Rural customers with 100,000 ATMs by 2013
“We will be targeting the countryside customer who is not yet able to gain benefit from the financial and banking services available in the country. We have offered to open zero balance and no-frills account for the convenience of such economically weak customers,” PNB Chairman and Managing Director, K R Kamath told Business Standard. He was on an official visit to Kanpur to meet large and mid-sized corporate willing to bank with PNB.
CBP Launches H2 Temporary Worker Exit Pilot Program in Arizona
The goal is to ensure that temporary workers comply with the requirement to leave the country when their work authorization expires. The program will also help secure U.S. borders more effectively and streamline existing guest worker programs.
UK Airports Introduce Fingerprint Scans
These travelers will have their fingerprints scanned at border control in addition to the normal checks. The fingerprints will then be checked against those the passenger gave when they applied for their UK visa.