Biometrics

Sector Report for Tuesday, 25 October 2011: Biometrics
This report contains the following stories.
* Loss of biometric data from 9 million Israelis cause for concern

* Precise Biometrics looks to Brazil to boost profits

* Facebook facial recognition proving problematic overseas

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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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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.
* Voice-recognition market to reach $58.4 billion in 2015

* M2SYS's Hybrid Biometric Platform offers flexibility

* Innometrik, Lumidigm integrate technologies

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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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M2SYS's Hybrid Biometric Platform offers flexibility
The biometric recognition market lacks enterprise-ready, customizable, device-independent systems that allow organizations of any size to avoid being limited to one biometric modality or a single biometric device; Frost & Sullivan says M2SYS’s Hybrid Biometric Platform addresses this problem
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Innometrik, Lumidigm integrate technologies
Lumidigm says that Innometriks’ Rhino reader, which combines embedded Lumidigm fingerprint biometrics, smart cards, PKI, and digital signature technologies, is now handling high security applications in extreme weather and rough environments for several organizations of the U.S. Department of Defense
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SmartMetric set to release new biometric smart card
In the first quarter of 2012, SmartMetric, Inc. plans to unveil its newest SmartCard, which is the size of a standard credit card but has the ability to record fingerprint biometrics to ensure the highest level of security in financial transactions
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iBeta becomes NIST approved biometrics test lab
With the increasing ubiquity of biometrics in everything from airport scanners, laptops, cell phones, hospitals, and vehicles, iBeta Quality Assurance recently gained official certification to test new biometric technologies
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