Security News

TikTok Quietly Updated Its Privacy Policy to Collect Users' Biometric Data
2021-06-06 22:04

The policy change, first spotted by TechCrunch, went into effect on June 2. TikTok users who reside in the European Economic Area, the U.K., Switzerland, and other geographies where the service operates are exempted from the changes.

Visa invests in LoginID to accelerate FIDO-certified biometric authentication
2021-06-01 22:30

LoginID announced additional investment from Visa on the heels of its $6M seed round from veteran payment and fintech entrepreneurs. Visa recognizes that strong authentication solutions from companies like LoginID help promote its vision to improve integrity around payments - both reducing fraud and helping merchants meet global regulatory and compliance demands.

HID Global invests in Paravision to accelerate the development of biometric solutions
2021-05-12 22:15

The investment aligns with HID Global's strategic direction to embed facial recognition into solutions for a seamless and highly secure user experience in a variety of identity verification and authentication applications, including access control. "In partnership, HID and Paravision have already cooperated on projects and we look forward to further advancing our collaboration across a number of different markets and use cases," said Björn Lidefelt, EVP and Head of HID Global.

Scammers aren’t always who we expect them to be: How AI and biometrics can help
2021-05-12 05:00

Let's explore a few scenarios and how AI and biometrics can help uncover and fight fraud. Without an AI-powered fraud prevention platform and biometric authentication, this type of fraud could easily go unnoticed.

BIO-key releases MobileAuth, a touchless biometric authentication app
2021-05-11 02:00

BIO-key International introduced its new mobile app, BIO-key MobileAuth with PalmPositive the latest among over sixteen strong authentication factors available for BIO-key's PortalGuard Identity-as-a-Service platform. MobileAuth's fast, touchless biometric user authentication - using a palm scan - works with any Android or iOS device to provide the unprecedented combination of a simple, privacy-protected, and convenient user experience with the identity integrity and availability that enterprises require.

Echoworx introduces biometric authentication to its Email Encryption platform
2021-04-30 01:45

Echoworx announced the introduction of biometric authentication to its Echoworx Email Encryption platform, enabling secure passwordless authentication options. By leveraging biometrics, along with their growing list of seven authentication options, Echoworx enables enterprises with the option to access encrypted communications in seconds, without the need for registration, questions or passwords.

Consumers embracing biometrics to protect their information
2021-04-26 03:00

The study found that 41 percent of North American consumers are more likely to use digital means to open a financial account than a year ago, while 32 percent are less likely to visit a branch to open a new account. Whereas for Americans, these expectations drop to 62 percent, 52 percent and 42 percent respectively.

COVID-19 creates a boom in biometric adoption
2021-04-23 04:00

COVID-19 has accelerated the shift to digital, creating a boom in biometric adoption. Biometric deployment isn't without challenges.

The future of touchless visitor management lies with biometrics
2021-04-15 04:30

With so many people making their way into an office building on any given day - whether as a prospective job candidate, a vendor with a delivery, or for a client meeting - it is vital that today's visitor and employee management systems are prepared to keep the grounds safe from unwanted visitors, including COVID-19. Demand grew almost overnight for fast, touchless visitor management systems that could do more to keep people safe.

ID R&D IDLive Face offers face biometrics and facial liveness on embedded IoT and edge systems
2021-04-14 00:15

ID R&D announced that its passive facial liveness detection product, IDLive Face, now runs on the NVIDIA Jetson XavierNX. The small form factor system-on-module supports multiple AI neural networks running in parallel and trillions of operations per second, resulting in faster processing and lower hardware costs when deploying face biometrics with liveness detection on embedded IoT and edge computing systems. Support for IDLive Face on Jetson Xavier NX mitigates size, power, and cost constraints that have limited the ability to deploy and scale face biometrics in standalone devices.