• Adding biometrics to E-Verify would reduce illegal immigration

    A new white paper argues that adding biometric technology to E-Verify would bolster DHS’s legal employment verification system; the paper author, former senior FBI official, says that better verification of employment credentials would significantly reduce the flow of illegal immigrants because it will make that much harder for illegals to find a job

  • Ivrnet acquires Diaphonics's speech recognition software

    Ivnet acquires speech recognition software from Diaphonics — a company that fell on hard times; Ivnet will integrate to biometric software into its hosted services line of products; IVnet has already implemented the product for the Alberta government as part of a customized application which verifies the identity of a person intended to receive financial assistance

  • Study projects continued fingerprint domination of biometric market

    New report from RNCOS projects that automated fingerprint identification systems (AFIS) will hold a 35 percent share of the global biometric market, the largest share for any biometrics, by the end of 2010

  • Will facial recognition biometrics come of age in 2011?

    Face recognition biometrics has been around since the mid-1960s, but is yet to develop a strong market presence; recent tests of the technology in conjunction with CCTV — in Birmingham and London in the U.K., and in Tampa, Florida and Logan Airport in the U.S.— were disappointing; still, Chris Routledge, managing director of U.K. Time Solutions Ltd, argues that facial recognition biometrics will come of age in 2011

  • Rhode Island prison deploys new inmate eye scanners

    This summer a Rhode Island prison inmate was able to walk out of prison by posing as another inmate who was up for parole; the state Department of Corrections has deployed an eye scanner in the prison that checks inmates’ eyes to ensure identity