John Mello is a freelance technology and business writer who lives in Woonsocket, R.I. Fingerprints have long been the most widely used biometric identifier, but technological advancements are helping ...

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Documents reviewed by POLITICO show that identity verification provider ID.me could retain taxpayer biometric data for far ...

As the world continues to move essential functions to digital environments, companies need trustworthy methods for verifying who is behind the screen. Multifactor authentication (MFA) has become the ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

The payments industry, facing the risk of increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks and various types of credit card fraud, has begun incorporating various types of biometric technology to enhance ...

It is a tenet of modern security that the identity of an individual who has undergone a security clearance process must be uniquely associated with that individual, and only that individual, in order ...

Biometric authentication is often thought of as nearly impossible to steal or fake, a perfect addition to your cybersecurity arsenal. While it is tough for a threat actor to replicate a physical ...

Secure contactless transactions will be essential to keep employees and customers safe in the post-pandemic shopping and workplace era. COVID-19 has sped up much of the digital transformation already ...

Meta says it does not identify people, while World Network turns irises into unique codes. Yet both cases show how biometric ...

Continuous, passive authentication: Behavioral biometrics analyze typing, swiping and other actions in real time to verify identity without disrupting users. AI-driven adaptability: Machine learning ...