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Biometrics to protect mobile exchanges

Friday, October 24, 2008

Ileana Buhan, a Romanian computer scientist, has developed a way to use facial biometrics as a way to secure information as it is transferred between mobile devices, according to a ZD Net article. When the users are transferring data they need to take pictures of each other’s face to compare to the stored image and allow for a secure connection.


To authenticate the two users, the mobile devices generate unbreakable passwords based off of facial recognition from the pictures. This way, as both users have two pictures that are giving out the same biometric data on their device, both devices should create the same password for the connection. While the system was designed for use with mobile devices, such as PDAs and cell phones, it can also be used in other biometric systems.

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A Japanese researcher has developed a biometric that could be used to protect a car from theft: butt biometrics, according to verge.com.

Shigeomi Koshimizu, an associate professor at the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology in Tokyo has developed the technology. A seat pressure map to generates 39 indices that are used to uniquely identify a subject’s posterior. Results so far have been encouraging, with average false reject rates of 2.2% and false accept rates of 1.1%.

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ValidSoft partnered with Opus Research and released a report titled “Voice Biometrics Authentication Best Practices: Overcoming Obstacles to Adoption” that predicts the technology will be deployed in payment authentication assuming the best practices it lays out are followed.

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that it will hold a workshop on April 26 to examine the use of mobile payments and how this emerging technology impacts consumers.

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Precise Biometrics has developed a new line of “smart cases” for brands of tablets and smart phones to be released in 2012 and 2013. The new smart cases have built-in card reader and fingerprint sensor enabling users to both secure their devices as well as replace various password-based security for protected online sites and applications.

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Codebench Inc. and Hirsch Identive announced the integration of Codebench’s PIVCheck Plus software with Hirsch Identive’s Velocity Management Software, which aims to provide federal government and commercial customers with a solution for identity validation, authentication and PACS registration using mobile handheld devices.

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The European Association for Biometrics (EAB) is focusing on a goal of driving the research and development of biometrics and building the future of the industry around a concern for end-user privacy protection.

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