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.