What biometrics can do at borders and for fraud prevention is well established, but the technology is being asked to do more.

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 ...

Remote authentication tools such as iris, face, voice and finger vein detection, as well as behavioral biometric scans, can record a person's identity precisely and save it into a database. Be it ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Officials say the modernization would build on AFIS infrastructure donated by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in 2015.