Interesting story on the BBC Web site about biometric ATMs. They are being used in India to pay illiterate workers who have trouble with the paperwork involved in collecting their wages from the bank.

KABUL (Reuters) - Biometric machines aimed at preventing fraud in Afghanistan's presidential election performed better than in a poll last year but still left voters waiting a long time to cast their ...

According to the group, it observed during the just ended voter verification exercise, that the machines failed to function in about 6% of exhibition centers it monitored. “CODEO Observers reported ...

The simply stated goal of the Biometric Recognition and Identification at Altitude and Range (BRIAR) program is to perform accurate and reliable biometric identification across a wider range of ...

What good is a fingerprint scanner if the criminal is wearing fake fingers? Or if they’ve transplanted their toeprints to their fingerprints to prevent law enforcement from matching them to a database ...

A British Columbia program that uses biometric dispensing machines to supply pharmaceutical-grade opioids to patients with opioid use disorder reduced drug-related harms and could potentially overcome ...

Digital identity verification has entered a new phase. What used to rely on static rules, document uploads, and manual review ...