Portland Oregon has set a new national standard in biometric #privacy and freedom from surveillance. On Wednesday, September 9, the Portland, Oregon City Council passed two ordinances to ban the use of facial recognition by both public and private entities. This ban appears to be the strongest in the nation, it is is the […]
The W3C standards group has certified WebAuthn as an official web standard. WebAuthn enables web site logins that are both easier and more secure than passwords. Multiple authentication methods are supported, including biometric options on mobile devices, such as fingerprint readers. It’s already supported in Android, Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and the preview version of Apple […]
Visa conducted a survey in Europe, from which it learned that people trust fingerprint authentication far more than they do iris or face recognition, or other forms of biometric authentication. The survey also seems to show that banks are trusted much more than governments when it comes to storing biometric data. Europeans Warming Up to […]
On Friday, Ajay Bhalla, President of Enterprise Security Solutions at MasterCard, said that consumers should be able to identify themselves without having to use PIN numbers and passwords. Biometric authentication is expected to be the key technology for this type of security, which is what the company is using in its partnership with Zwipe. While […]
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