On February 6, at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Andy Rolfe of Authentify and Dr. Stephen Elliot of Purdue University presented the results of a study on Authentify's implementation of voice biometrics/speaker verification. It should be noted that this study should not be considered to be a statement on voice biometrics on the whole, but on a specific implementation of a a single vendor's hosted authentication solution.  read more »

Multiple sources are reporting that the Maine legislature has passed a resolution to opt-out of the federally mandated REAL ID program.  read more »

On January 19, Wired News posted an article about the upcoming release of biometrically secured ATMs in rural India (see article at http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72284-0.html?tw=rss.index).  read more »

On January 11, Government Security (a magazine and online site that promotes technology for the "protection of the homeland") published a piece entitled Majority of Americans support biometrics in IDs.

The results were interesting, if not necessarily groundbreaking.  read more »

Security experts have always considered the world of behavioral biometrics to be a bit arcane.  read more »