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ISSN 0969-4765 June 2015
TECHNOLOGY
law enforcement
Privacy campaigners pile
pressure on the police
L aw enforcement agencies globally
are coming under pressure from pri-
vacy groups over their use of biometric
technology as more polices forces look
to the technology.
In the US, civil rights groups have called
for law enforcement agencies to avoid using
facial recognition on images collected by body
worn cameras. International Business Times has
reported that a coalition of 34 civil rights and
privacy groups, including the NAACP and the
American Civil Liberties Union, has unveiled
a list of recommendations regarding the use of
police body cameras in the US after a number
of incidents in which body cameras failed to
capture what happened before a fatal shooting.
The recommendations ask police to avoid
using facial recognition and other biometric
technology in examining the footage, to fol-
low specific regulations on how long data is
retained, make the footage available to the press
and to prevent officers from viewing the footage
banking
Users of all ages embrace banking biometrics
U sers of all ages are embracing
banking biometrics, a study has
found. This comes as the banking sec-
tor shows an ever increasing interest
in biometric technology.
More than 400,000 USAA customers, five of
whom are over 90 years old, have opted in to
use face, voice or touch biometrics to authenti-
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cate themselves to the company’s mobile bank-
ing application, reports American Banker.
USAA has carried out demographic analysis
of its users’ biometric adoption. Rick Swenson,
USAA’s fraud operational excellence and strate-
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gic initiatives executive, told American Banker he
thought the demographic adopting biometrics
would skew toward millennials, but the makeup
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News
Privacy campaigners pile pressure on
the police
Users of all ages embrace banking biometrics 1
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SayPay Technologies and VoiceVault partner
before filing incident reports.
In Scotland, police have confirmed that
they are using facial recognition technology.
to deliver online and mobile payment
Biometric tech secures bitcoin wallet
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Herald Scotland reports that police officers have Nok Nok Labs integrates S3 with Android M 3
confirmed they have used it on more than 400 NTT Docomo implements fingerprint and iris
occasions. Scots Lib Dem justice spokeswoman biometrics 2
Alison McInnes, who uncovered the figures, Smart cane enables blind people to identify
said it raised concerns about the protection people using facial recognition 3
of civil liberties. She told Herald Scotland: Researchers use brain waves to identify
“Without adequate safeguards, there is nothing individuals 3
to stop the police using from using this tech- Microsoft wearable with behavioural
nology for mass surveillance.” biometrics? 3
In Australia, law enforcement agencies have Imprivata snaps up HT Systems to target
backed a plan to build a national facial recogni- patient identification 11
tion database that will match faces to images Lisbon airport trials EC Smart Borders Program 11
on passports, visas and driver’s licences to UNHCR to deploy Accenture biometrics to
combat cross-border criminal networks, reports assist refugees 11
Australia’s IT News. IBIA urges US transport authorities to
In India, Hyderabad police is set to acquire enhance biographic ID with biometrics 11
facial recognition software to identify terror Frost & Sullivan finds global market for
suspects, property offenders and other criminals iris recognition at nascent phase 12
from images collected from CCTV cameras. Facial recognition market forecast for
17.4% CAGR 12
Global biometrics market to increase from
$2bn in 2015 to $14.9bn by 2024 12
Features
of users has turned out to be different. The
median age of users is 35, Swenson said during
a biometric roundtable hosted by the Center for
Assuring identity against the growing
terrorist travel threat
By Janice Kephart, BORDERPOL 5
the Study of Financial Innovation in London.
And 15% of those in the older half are over 65. Biometric technology: not a password
replacement, but a complement
Other banking biometrics news in the past
month includes: Larry Hamid, Imation Mobile Security,
advocates combining biometrics and
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passwords to bolster security. 7
technology must be mature and regulations
changed before the public will be allowed Regulars
to open accounts using facial recognition Events Calendar 3
technology, reports Caixin Online. News in Brief 4
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Product News 4
with facial recognition technology. The devel-
Company News 4
opers include Tsinghua University and Tzekwan
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SayPay Technologies J apan’s largest mobile carrier NTT
Docomo is driving biometrics into
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and VoiceVault partner the mobile sector. It is to adopt and
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to deliver online and Sense ID 3D fingerprint biometrics
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S ayPay Technologies, a payments
start-up, and VoiceVault have
partnered to deliver online and
party biometric sensors for Docomo’s
mobile biometric authentication ser-
Digitally Produced by
Mayfield Press (Oxford) Ltd mobile payment solutions. vice on 27 May in Japan.
SayPay offers a solution for bill payments, The Docomo service including ‘docomo ID
online checkout and website sign-in. SayPay login authentication and carrier billing pay-

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