Researchers at the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate explained how camera systems’ capacity for varied skin tones can make or break an accurate biometric reading.

Biometric solutions have become the subject of much discussion lately, as governments and businesses search for more sophisticated security solutions beyond the traditional identification badge and ...

Humans cannot exist without systems of meaning and having an identity. Over the years, human identity has been represented by a complex set of many external variables: family, community, ethnicity, ...

Traveling abroad? Get ready to smile for the camera. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is rolling out facial-recognition systems at the nation’s 20 top airports. The systems are designed to verify ...

The biggest known biometric data breach to date was reported recently when researchers managed to access a 23-gigabyte database of more than 27.8m records including fingerprint and facial recognition ...

Despite what every spy movie in the past 30 years would have you think, fingerprint and face scanners used to unlock your smartphone or other devices aren’t nearly as secure as they’re made out to be.

Thanks greatly to the consumerization of biometrics within smartphones, biometrics has come to be seen as a low-cost, low-friction means of authentication. But biometrics vary greatly in terms of ...