Here is an in-depth overview of how well biometric technology is performing in India's UID project. And, more crucially, it explains why performance is so good?

The entire biometrics community has suffered from vocabulary confusion, especially in large-scale, public procurements. Help is at hand thanks to a standards initiative looking specifically at Vocabulary Harmonization.

Sci-fi mystery and images of Tom Cruise have led to some bloated and fantastical misconceptions about how biometrics are used. Most notably, it has placed biometrics in a league where they are reviled and misunderstood more than most other technologies on the market today.

Argus Global explore some of those myths.

Governments investing taxpayers’ hard-earned money in automated border control (ABC) systems will experience false economies by cutting corners in enrolment.

Policy considerations when implementing biometric enhanced, chip-based passports.
 

This article is written by Brad Wing, Biometrics Standards Coordinator at NIST, and editor of the ANSI/NIST-ITL standard. The article reviews the history of the standard and gives examples of where it is in use today. This year, the standard will be expanded to meet the increased needs of Governments around the world for the exchange of biometrics and related information.

In today’s society biometric identification is integral to improved security and information management. But how can you choose the right biometric technology for your organisation?

This feature gives an overview of the factors that should be used for assessment of product performance when selecting a biometric product for implementation.