Tag: biometrics

NITI Aayog thinktank recommends improved facial recognition security in India

Sam Lambert
Facial recognition technology - man being scanned

The National Institute for Transforming India is calling for enhanced safeguards for collected personal data. The National Institute for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) an Indian government think tank, has called for clearer safeguards regarding personal data collected using facial recognition technology. They are pushing for improved security for personal data collected from citizens across India. NITI Aayog was particularly concerned about improvements regarding the facial recognition data collected through the Digi Yatra airport biometrics system. The think tank has issued a draft discussion paper as the latest updated version of…

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Facial recognition payment verification method popularity to explode in coming years

Jorge Gonzalez
Facial recognition payment verification - binary code - woman's face

A new analysis suggests that this and other biometric authentication tech will be used by billions. Newly released research results have shown that in coming years, billions of smartphone users will employ facial recognition payment verification and other types of authentication to keep their transactions secure. The next handful of years are expected to include a considerable shift toward biometrics. This shift will include a heavy move toward facial recognition payment verification technology, among other types of biometrics. These will be meant to boost the security level of mobile transactions,…

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Setting Out a Case for Facial ID Recognition

Jorge Gonzalez
Facial recognition

On this site and others, there has been plenty of reminders that both consumers and businesses have not wholly embraced the idea of facial ID recognition and other biometric solutions for identification purposes. It’s, understandably, a hot-button topic, one that has perhaps divided those on the idea of personal freedoms. Indeed, freedom in the sense of what governments and organisations should rightfully know about us is one of the great, almost philosophical, questions of the digital age. Part of the problem, however, is about how the question is framed. Ask…

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Smartphone iris scanner built into Samsung Galaxy S8 easily fooled

L. Green
smartphone iris scanner

It takes nothing more than a photograph and a contact lens to trick the phone’s mobile security feature. The sophisticated and hyped smartphone iris scanner in the Samsung Galaxy S8 isn’t quite as secure as marketing claims have suggested. A German hacking group called the Chaos Computer Club has found a simple way around what Samsung called “one of the safest ways to keep your phone locked.” The electronics giant said that the patterns on a person’s iris are “virtually impossible to replicate.” That said, members of the German club…

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Mobile payments trends are seeing growth held back by biometrics

Jennifer Goula
Mobile payments trends wallet

The technology to scan various body parts such as eyes and fingerprints may be too challenging to keep up. While it had looked as though mobile payments trends might have the potential to take off with rapid growth as more consumers look to their smartphones to replace their use of credit and debit cards, adoption has essentially flat-lined. This, despite the fact that industry giants such as Samsung and Apple have leapt into the market. Even with the best efforts of some of the largest tech giants in the world,…

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