biometrics

Biometrics is a technology that uses a person’s unique physical or behavioral characteristics to identify or authenticate them. It is widely used in a variety of areas, from unlocking smartphones to banking, access control, and even national security. Let’s look at how biometrics works, what...

The police defeated total control in football. The National Football League (NFL) has introduced a new policy that requires all stadium employees, including police officers and media representatives, to undergo biometric facial scanning. The leader of the resistance was Steve Grammas, the head...

Where do the photos you upload to Facebook end up? Meta has agreed to pay the state of Texas $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of illegally using facial recognition technology to collect biometric data from millions of Texans without their consent. The state accused...

Many readers are probably already familiar with biometric technologies. They are now ubiquitous. In a general sense, biometrics is a system for recognizing people by one or more physical (or behavioral) characteristics. In the field of information technology, biometric data is used as a form of...

As always, the Japanese delight us with their ideas and their implementation. Now the Japanese bank Ogaki Kyoritsu is going to introduce ATMs with a biometric access system to its bank account. In other words, money can be withdrawn without a bank card, just by placing your hand on a special...

Millions of people will soon face sophisticated identity theft attacks. In India, a large-scale data leak occurred, as a result of which the biometric data of millions of citizens became available. An unsecured database containing fingerprints and facial scans of police, military and civilian...

Are hardware keys really more secure than passwords? A new Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report indicates that almost 30% of all recorded violations over the past 10 years were caused by stolen credentials. This trend highlights how critical the role of passwords and other authentication...

Biometric authentication is a procedure for identifying a person's identity by providing their biometric data. Its main advantage is comfort, since such a password as an index finger print is simply impossible to forget. Biometric authentication technologies have already managed to" move " from...

A company that creates facial recognition technologies should not have cut the salary of its developers… Law enforcement agencies and federal agencies are investigating a large-scale leak of personal data related to the facial recognition system in bars and clubs across Australia. The incident...

Platforms often use personal data for purposes unrelated to finding love. Dating apps are growing in popularity every year, but a Mozilla study shows that their reliability in protecting users personal data is getting worse. Despite the developers ' assurances about the need for extensive data...

Buying a SIM card for migrants may become more difficult: what the new draft law changes. The Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation has prepared a draft law introducing new requirements for foreign citizens and stateless persons when purchasing...

Dmitry Ter-Stepanov spoke about the real situation with the collection of biometric data of Russians. At the conference "Fintech-2024. Directions of development", organized by Kommersant, a representative of the Center for Biometric Technologies announced figures concerning the collection of...

The US Court of Appeals upheld the law on age verification for porn sites. The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the introduction of mandatory proof of age for access to pornography does not violate the First Amendment to the Constitution. The controversial HB 1181 law has been amended to...

70 million people will find themselves under the cap of the authorities from July this year. In Vietnam, the collection of biometric data of citizens for identification purposes will begin in July this year. Prime Minister Pham Min-jin instructed the country's Ministry of Public Security to...

Several thousand Russian citizens said "no" to the collection of biometric data. Since the beginning of August, there has been an increased demand for the service of refusal to collect and store biometric data of citizens in various regions of Russia. So, according to the Kommersant...

In the movie "Time", people of the future pay for time by leaning their hand against the counter with a glowing clock implanted in it. But even now we can do without cash and pay for purchases with a smart watch or other gadgets. Existing means of payment have come a long way: from cardboard...

Modern biometric identification methods use different techniques: from heartbeat to voice recognition. But the most popular is the fingerprint. The origins of biometric authentication. Fingerprints were originally used to identify criminals. This method was first used in Indian forensics in...

PaySpace Magazine has compiled a selection of the most technologically advanced smartphones of our time, supporting blockchain technology, biometrics and crypto wallets, advanced cameras and screens of unusual design From biometrics to mPOS terminals: The most technologically advanced...

PaySpace Magazine has learned which financial companies are implementing solutions based on passive biometrics in Ukraine and around the world Behavioral biometrics: the most effective solutions and in the world. Several years ago, the American information platform TeleSign published a study...

Voice, fingerprints, and retinal scans are already being used in payment relationships It has been known for over 100 years that a body can be used to verify an identity instead of a password. Back in 1892, the British anthropologist, sociologist and psychologist Francis Galton created the...