May-01-09 LG Iris Wins Australian’s New South Wales Department of Corrective Services iris recognition technology contract

Apr-24-09 IDEX ASA receives the 2009 Frost & Sullivan Global Swipe Sensor Product Differentiation Innovation of the Year Award

Leading analysts recognize IDEX’s successful initiative in improving its innovative SmartFinger® swipe sensor.

IDEX has delivered the most comprehensive swipe sensor technology solutions enabling cell phone, notebook, access and attendance, increased security of financial transactions, all with dramatically improved customer experience," said Dr. Ralph W. Bernstein, CEO/CTO of IDEX.

Apr-23-09 Travel Industry Committed to Working with Department of Homeland Security, Private Sector to Build Efficient and Secure Air Exit System

Department of Homeland Security’s proposal to rely on airlines to collect biometric information from foreign travelers departing the United States:

The Travel Industry Association is committed to working with the Department of Homeland Security and other interested parties to ensure that a biometric air exit system is developed as expeditiously as possible.

Apr-08-09 Healthcare IT Continues to Grow, Despite Economy

Healthcare IT Depts Plan on Acquiring Biometric Technologies, Despite Economy, Survey Says

Other security technologies a third or more respondents said they plan to purchase include e-mail encryption; biometric technologies, intrusion prevention/detection service and data encryption. Currently, 62 percent use e-mail encryption, 18 percent use biometric technologies, 75 percent use intrusion prevention/detection service and 56 percent use data encryption.

Apr-01-09 Stimulus Package Includes New HIPAA Security Rules

The new legislation requires physicians who use an electronic health record, or EHR, to "have the ability to track every time (patient) information has been disclosed

Apr-01-09 Healthcare Identity Management Is Necessary First Step to Electronic Health Record Interchange, Says Smart Card Alliance Healthcare Council

"Dependably accurate identification and authentication of patients seems like something that should already exist in healthcare, but studies show it is a major problem," said Randy Vanderhoof, executive director of the Smart Card Alliance.

"With the $17 billion federal government investment planned for healthcare IT as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009, we thought this was the right time to bring healthcare identity management to the forefront," said Vanderhoof. "If you look at the problem from inside the healthcare industry, identity management is an essential first step that is not well understood today. The lack of the proper identity management infrastructure will later undermine achieving the program's goals."

Apr-01-09 Bipartisan Amendment calls for an additional $550 million for Law Enforcement, Communications, Anti-Smuggling Efforts

Included in amendment is $20 million for CBP to modernize its database used to identify potential criminals at the ports of entry.

Apr-01-09 TiVo and Innerscope Research(R) Identify Strong Correlation Between Emotional Engagement with TV Ads and Viewers' Fast-Forwarding Behavior

Conducted in late 2008, the study compared live biometric monitoring of emotional engagement with…

Mar-31-09 Biometrics Improve Apple Patents iPhone Security

In a hint of things to come, more patents submitted by Apple just a few months ago show advances in future security designs for iPhones and notebook computers. The new authentication methods include several biometric technologies that would verify the identity of a user without any additional input from the owner of the device…

Mar-30-09 Former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff to Lead Security and Risk Management Advisory Firm

The firm services include biometrics and identity management programs, information assurance, fraud prevention and investigations, border protection solutions…

Mar-30-09 U.S. House of Representatives Passes Biometrics Bill to Secure Nations Waters, Block Illegals

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano expressed that the Department would “significantly increase” the use of “biometric enforcement”, in an effort to enhance border security.

Mar-25-09 European Parliament: children under twelve won't have to give fingerprints for Biometric visas

During negotiations with the Council, MEPs successfully argued for children under twelve to be exempted from the requirement to give their fingerprints.

Mar-20-09 Testimony before the House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Homeland Security,

DHS will now also be able to conduct full searches against the FBI Unsolved Latent File, which, for example, allows DHS to match against prints lifted from crime scenes and those collected in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Mar-19-09 Frost & Sullivan: Advances in Biometrics Remedy the Need for Increased Security

Currently, the governmental sector occupies 44.5% of the current market share; however, an increasing number of biometric products are being developed for commercial markets, particularly the financial, healthcare, retail and educational sectors.

Mar-17-09 New Biometric Standards Facilitate Exchange of Biometrics, Facilitate Biometrically Enabled Drivers’ Licenses and International Travel Documents

Latest update of published and emerging biometric standards. Seven new and/or updated standards were published since the last update issued in August 2008, bringing the total number of published standards to eighty(80).

Mar-17-09 Identification flats; A Revolution in Fingerprint Biometrics

There is a revolutionary change occurring in the way fingerprint biometrics are applied as a result of several strong market drivers that have been in progress for several years and are now reaching critical mass.

Mar-13-09 WCC’s ELISE ID, Meeting the Challenges of HSPD-24:A Layered Approach to Accurate Real Time Identification

ELISE ID connects disparate data sources seam-lessly and detects possible identity matches in structured and unstructured data repositories. It is the engine for examining and uncovering non-obvious data relationships giving rise to new business rules to accurately and quickly identify persons of interest.

Mar-10-09 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): program enhances identifying and deporting criminal aliens

With the implementation of Secure Communities, the fingerprints of arrested individuals will now be simultaneously checked against both the FBI's criminal history records and the biometrics-based immigration records maintained by DHS.

Mar-08-09 2009 World Iris Recognition Frost & Sullivan Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award IrisGuard Inc.

National Security and Banking are the two prime sectors in which IrisGuard proves its technological leadership abilities.

Feb-25-09 Coming soon… the revolutionary AOptix InSight™ 2 meter cooperative iris recognition system

Subject ease-of-use, or human factors, has always been the prime challenge to the adoption of iris recognition in mainstream governmental and commercial applications.