cmaxmostMar 3, 2015Have/Will mobile phones become our de facto “global identity card”?This article is interesting food for thought …. Mobile phones have quietly become a global identity device we don’t really need By David...
cmaxmostDec 29, 2014Nice “De-bunking” of the German defense Minister FP HackMarcus Chavers of Newsledge did a really nice, concise job of de-bunking the fear mongering around the “hack” of the German Defense...
cmaxmostDec 4, 2014MasterCard Cries Fowl on Bitcoin!As if right on cure, following my 12/1/14 post, MasterCard Australia is complaining about unfair competition and begging for regulation....
cmaxmostDec 1, 2014Ghosts in the Payments MachineToday’s payment behemoths are trying to desperately hold on to control of the payment processing infrastructure because they intuitively...
cmaxmostNov 3, 2014The Future of Dough – “Pay by Ass”Spending a few days at @Money2020. Crazy crowded with more than 7,000 registered. There is both good and bad news for the show. First,...
cmaxmostOct 30, 2014Why is the European Commission looking to eGates and RT for Smart Borders?Given the embrace and amazing success story of APC eGates, is the EC ” missing the boat” on expediting international airport passengers?...
cmaxmostOct 20, 2014Half the World’s Population Will Have Chip-Based National Electronic Identity (eID) Cards by 2018In five years time, half of the world’s population will have a chip-based National eID card, including near-complete regional coverage in...
cmaxmostOct 9, 2014Apple Pay, Touch ID, and the iPhone 6 — Biometrics Boost Consumer Privacy for Mobile CommerceA decade of intense debate over whether consumer biometrics is a privacy boosting or privacy busting technology may finally be over....
cmaxmostOct 1, 2014Biometric Myth BustingZack Martin over at Avision published a great pice on biometric myth busting well worth a read called Exorcising the Biometric Boogeyman....
cmaxmostMay 12, 2014Two of World’s Busiest Airports Deploy Biometric Automated Passport Control KiosksGlobal Market to Grow 22% CAGR from 2014 – 2018 Earlier this month, Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson and Chicago O’Hare — two of the world’s...
cmaxmostMar 17, 2014Biometric Border Controls Crucial Post Malaysia Airlines Flight 370Had Malaysia — the first country in the world to introduce a biometric ePassport and a leader in automated border control eGates —...
cmaxmostMar 5, 2014More than 18,000 Airport ABC eGates and Kiosks coming soon to an airport near you!Airports across the globe are struggling with a universal challenge; maintaining security vigilance while accommodating ever increasing...
cmaxmostNov 9, 2011Whose to Blame for UK Biometric Border Debacle?The latest on the UK border debacle is a classic case of “he said, she said” UK border chief Brodie Clark quits over passport scandal...
cmaxmostOct 3, 2011Sprinting towards 1.2 billionThe latest from India presented both by Daon’s Cathy Tilton at last weeks BCC in Tampa and reported in the news is that One year after...
cmaxmostSep 12, 2011“It’s the Data, Stupid”Wondering about the “Future of Biometrics”? It is all about the data. At least if you look where IBM is placing its bets. The news that...
cmaxmostSep 3, 2011National eID MarketplaceAcuity’s latest research report “The Global National eID Industry Report” is out and the findings – while not unexpected – shed some...
cmaxmostMar 6, 2011Who’s coming AND going?Flight of Brockton suspect documents US security gap – The Boston Globe. According to this report in the Boston Globe, a 40 year old...
cmaxmostMar 5, 2011Data Driven Analysis is one of my personal obsessions …I have been working on the new Acuity website so I have been immersed in the process of distilling clear, concise messaging and...
cmaxmostFeb 26, 2011Mobility Rules at the NDIA Biometrics ConferenceI participated on the Futures panel at the NDIA Biometric Conference in Washington DC on Thursday. The topic of my spiel “Mobility...
