Biometric ATM and credit cards could appear sooner than you might think. The Monetary Association of Singapore has been working with financial institutions for months now to enhance the security of ATM cards to reduce the risks of magnetic strips currently on credit cards. By installing smart chips in every card, Ms. Ellen Lee of Parliament thinks that requiring...

Ever worry that your password is too generic or you don’t know how to remember a password based on all of the requirements many companies are putting in place to try to protect you? Obviously, even if a site requires for example a password that has both letters and numbers, a lot of people might use Password123, which is extremely predictable at best. While not...

While there is no current policy in place, foreign visitors to the United States may be required in the future to provide fingerprint or iris scans when entering the country. The idea started during the Bush administration in 2005, and it still has yet to come to fruition. However, the idea is to monitor terrorists and others who may be of danger to the country. ...

A global provider of Biometric technology, Aware Inc. is now designing imaging and biometric software for the Department of Justice. Referred to as the Next-Generation Universal Automated Booking Station or “Universal ABS”, this biometric enrollment application is taking Biometrics to the next level. It is designed to be flexible, modular, and easily configured...

Futuristic movies always have incredibly advanced ways of recognizing and identifying people. Whether it’s with scans as small as your retina or as large as your body, or voice recognition and even taking a saliva sample from freshly kissed lips, it never ceases to impress audiences. But what a lot of people don’t know is that science is more readily available...

When you think of biometrics, what does it bring to mind? Is it invasive privacy breaching devices? I think it’s just the opposite. Biometric devices can become so secure that we could potentially eliminate many of the things in our lives that are privacy breaches and cause us to become uncomfortable. We could potentially remove several things that hinder the...