An employee scans the eyes of a woman for biometric data needed to apply for a passport, at the passport office in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2021. Over two decades, the United States and its allies spent ...

Biometrics is a system used to measure and analyze certain human body characteristics such as eye retinas, facial patterns, fingerprints, and voice patterns, amongst others. Biometric technology works ...

Suchi Rudra is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, BBC, and Vice, among other publications. Biometrics are often associated with identity verification, but this rapidly advancing ...

Universities are under immense stress every day. Their teams are saddled with the heavy responsibility of protecting students, staff members, and visitors while maintaining an efficient workflow and ...

As the world continues to move essential functions to digital environments, companies need trustworthy methods for verifying who is behind the screen. Multifactor authentication (MFA) has become the ...

The global mobile biometric market is expected to grow by over 20 percent in the next five years, reaching almost $92 billion by 2028, according to recent projections. While many businesses still use ...

Biometric ID for first responders could help police and firefighters better respond to emergencies. Those authentication technologies, however, come with risks and challenges, according to a new draft ...

BMDs can measure minimally observable changes in characteristics of patients to a higher level of resolution than possible with clinical observation. It is crucial to identify these earliest reliable ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - While biometric equipment is gaining popularity in a variety of applications, such as ensuring secure access to buildings, industries are finding that many users believe the ...

Looking for ways to beef up security in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, Citibank is putting a renewed emphasis on biometrics as a way to authenticate users of its systems. John Bree, a vice ...