News tagged with biometric data

EyeLock brings biometric security to your websites

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biometric security is always a field of interest for those people who need to keep your data secure. Currently, it is used in a wide variety of high security applications, mostly by large ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3 | with audio podcast weblog

Who are you? Mobile ID devices find out using NIST guidelines

A new publication that recommends best practices for the next generation of portable biometric acquisition devices -- Mobile ID -- has been published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Technology / Other

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

BioVault locks up biometrics: Using biometrics for encryption, digital signatures

A system that allows biometric data to be used to create a secret key for data encryption has been developed by researchers in South Africa. They describe details of the new technology in the International Journal of Electronic Se ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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App scans faces of bar-goers to guess age, gender

(AP) -- A watchful eye has arrived on San Francisco's bar scene, but not to keep you in check. It just wants to check you out.

Technology / Software

created May 19, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New protocol enables wireless and secure biometric acquisition with web service (w/ Video)

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed and published a new protocol for communicating with biometric sensors over wired and wireless networks—using some of the same technologies ...

Technology / Other

created May 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fujitsu develops world's smallest and slimmest palm vein biometric authentication sensor deployable in tablet devices

Fujitsu Laboratories Limited today announced development of the world's smallest and slimmest palm vein authentication sensor that is capable of being employed in tablet devices. By upgrading the technology's ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

BlackBerry may soon capture your eye and identity

Bringing back a bit of the sexiness of gadgets more suited to Ethan Hunt, James Bond or Captain Kirk, Research in Motion is making your BlackBerry an "eye-device," with information from your iris stored inside.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Bum's the word in Japan security scans

Put your fingerprint scanners away. Stand aside iris measurers. Buttocks are the new way to prove who you are.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Ford collaborates with Microsoft for in-car health and wellness research

Ford, Microsoft Corp. and Healthrageous are researching how connected devices can help people monitor and maintain health and wellness

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Engineers unleash car-seat identifier that reads your rear end

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cars of the future may use the driver’s rear end as identity protection, through a system developed at Japan’s Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology. A report surfaced earlier ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Dec 25, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 22 | with audio podcast report

IBM reveals five innovations that will change our lives in the next five years (Update)

Today IBM formally unveiled the sixth annual “IBM 5 in 5" (#ibm5in5) – a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and interact during the next five years.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (25) | comments 27 | with audio podcast

New NIST biometric data standard adds DNA, footmarks and enhanced fingerprint descriptions

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a revised biometric standard in November, 2011, that vastly expands the type and amount of information that forensic scientists can share ...

Technology / Other

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Germany warns Facebook over face-recognition app

Facebook has until November 7 to bring its facial recognition software into conformity with privacy laws in Germany and the European Union or face legal action, a government lawyer told AFP Friday.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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