An employee scans the eyes of a woman for biometric data needed to apply for a passport, at the passport office in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2021. Over two decades, the United States and its allies spent ...

Soldiers at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, recently performed tasks using one of the Army’s newest biometrics technologies – the Next Generation Biometric Collection Capability (NXGBCC). “This was the ...

SecuGen is releasing a biometric fingerprint scanner compliant with the MOSIP L1 authentication specification to support ...

The U.S. Army granted a technical direction letter worth $1.9 million to the Parsons Corporation. The letter will aid the technology company in acquiring biometric mobile and static collection devices ...

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 ...

When a German security researcher, Matthias Marx, found a United States military device for sale on eBay—an instrument previously used to identify wanted individuals and known terrorists during the ...

Regulations on Collection and Use of Personal Information of Internet Applications, was released for public feedback last ...

Iris scans, fingerprints, and photos of over 2,600 people were found unencrypted and protected by a default password. Iris scans, fingerprints, and photos of over 2,600 people were found unencrypted ...

Biometric building access controls have become increasingly popular among security-minded residential and commercial property managers, but the legal risks of collecting and using this data are ...

Biometric building access controls (i.e., “smart access” technologies) have become increasingly popular among residential and commercial property managers for the enhanced security benefits that these ...

"If your credit card is stolen, get a new one,” one expert said. “If your biometric data is stolen, you can't get a new face, and you can’t get new hands." ...