Have/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...
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Nice “De-bunking” of the German defense Minister FP Hack
Marcus Chavers of Newsledge did a really nice, concise job of de-bunking the fear mongering around the “hack” of the German Defense...
MasterCard 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....
Ghosts in the Payments Machine
Today’s payment behemoths are trying to desperately hold on to control of the payment processing infrastructure because they intuitively...
The 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,...
Why 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?...
Half the World’s Population Will Have Chip-Based National Electronic Identity (eID) Cards by 2018
In five years time, half of the world’s population will have a chip-based National eID card, including near-complete regional coverage in...
Apple Pay, Touch ID, and the iPhone 6 — Biometrics Boost Consumer Privacy for Mobile Commerce
A decade of intense debate over whether consumer biometrics is a privacy boosting or privacy busting technology may finally be over....
Biometric Myth Busting
Zack Martin over at Avision published a great pice on biometric myth busting well worth a read called Exorcising the Biometric Boogeyman....
Two of World’s Busiest Airports Deploy Biometric Automated Passport Control Kiosks
Global Market to Grow 22% CAGR from 2014 – 2018 Earlier this month, Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson and Chicago O’Hare — two of the world’s...
Biometric Border Controls Crucial Post Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Had Malaysia — the first country in the world to introduce a biometric ePassport and a leader in automated border control eGates —...
More 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...
Whose 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...
Sprinting towards 1.2 billion
The 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...
“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...
National eID Marketplace
Acuity’s latest research report “The Global National eID Industry Report” is out and the findings – while not unexpected – shed some...
Who’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...
Data 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...
Mobility Rules at the NDIA Biometrics Conference
I participated on the Futures panel at the NDIA Biometric Conference in Washington DC on Thursday. The topic of my spiel “Mobility...
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