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iPhone fingerprint reader wins Cygnus award
At the 118th International Association of Chiefs of Police conference, Fulcrum Biometrics won two awards for its mobile biometric fingerprint reader that attaches to Apple iPhones; the company’s FbFmobileOne reader received Innovation Award in the Forensics category as well as the Paramount Award for being the most innovative product of the year across all categories
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JustLook: Facial recognition better than retinal scan
Indian facial recognition company says facial recognition has advantages over retinal scan, and that the growing demand for facial recognition systems in India is one result of this conclusion
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Clarkson University is lead site for NSF identification technology research
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has designated Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, as the lead site for its Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR), one of NSF’s Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers
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SITA helps Indonesia track 20 million biometric identities
SITA, an international supplier of technology solutions for air transportation, is in the midst of helping Indonesia implement a biometric scanning system for all visiting foreigners; SITA’s BioThenticate can match and manage up to twenty million biometric identities and will be used to screen travelers against a biometric watch list using face and fingerprints
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Sector Report for Tuesday, 25 October 2011: Biometrics
This report contains the following stories.
Plus 1 additional story.
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Loss of biometric data from 9 million Israelis cause for concern
With governments and businesses collecting an ever greater amount of biometric data from individuals, the recent theft of an entire database containing biometric data on more than nine million Israelis is serious cause for concern
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Facebook facial recognition proving problematic overseas
A German court ruled that Facebook’s facial recognition software is in violation of German and European privacy laws; the company has until 7 November to amend its software to comply with German and EU laws or else it will face legal action
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Also Noted
State Department considers biometrics for border security * ID BOX helps secure biometric data * Indonesia unveils border biometrics * Your fingerprint can get you coffee * U.K. cops want nightclub fingerprint scans
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Iris recognition system deployed at Gatwick Airport
AOptix Technologies and Human Recognition Systems (HRS) announced their integrating of AOptix InSight VM iris recognition system into thirty-four automated e-Gates at the Gatwick Airport South Terminal
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RSA blames nation-state for SecurID cyberattack
Last week at a press conference in London, RSA executives revealed more details about the cyberattack that stole information regarding the company’s SecurID authentication tokens in March; Art Coviello, the executive chairman of RSA, said two well-known hacker groups as well as a nation-state collaborated to infiltrate the company’s networks
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Collaborative social media site for ID and biometric professionals
Cost overruns, project delays, and poor performance results have long been the bane of government projects, at times resulting in expensive high-profile failures; to help reduce costs and ensure that government projects meet targeted needs, a new collaborative Web-based information-sharing community aimed at bringing together identity and biometric industry professionals, academics, researchers, and government and commercial procurement officers is slated to open
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Detecting criminals coming back to the scene of the crime
Law enforcement officials believe that perpetrators of certain crimes, most notably arson, do come back to the scene of the crime to witness their handiwork; similarly, U.S. military in the Middle East feel that improvised explosive device (IED) bomb makers return to see the results of their work in order to evolve their designs; scientists have developed a method to identify these individuals
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Major breakthroughs in facial recognition, cause for concern?
Technological advances could soon make identifying an individual in a crowd as simple as taking a photo with a smartphone; researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College have developed PittPatt, a software tool that can take a snapshot of a person and track down their real identity in a matter of minutes
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Sector Report for Tuesday, 11 October 2011: Biometrics
This report contains the following stories.
Plus 1 additional story.
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Voice-recognition market to reach $58.4 billion in 2015
New report says the voice recognition technologies market will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.8 percent between 2010 and 2015; the total market is valued at an estimated $38.4 billion in 2010 and is expected to reach $58.4 billion in 2015; this growth will spur additional growth in two sub-markets: voice recognition software technologies and text-to-speech software
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