Interesting story on the BBC Web site about biometric ATMs. They are being used in India to pay illiterate workers who have trouble with the paperwork involved in collecting their wages from the bank.

A team of engineers at the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) has produced a prototype biometric machine that can uniquely recognise biometric features of Nigerians, a major deficiency of imported ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Biometric machines aimed at preventing fraud in Afghanistan's presidential election performed better than in a poll last year but still left voters waiting a long time to cast their ...

What good is a fingerprint scanner if the criminal is wearing fake fingers? Or if they’ve transplanted their toeprints to their fingerprints to prevent law enforcement from matching them to a database ...

A British Columbia program that uses biometric dispensing machines to supply pharmaceutical-grade opioids to patients with opioid use disorder reduced drug-related harms and could potentially overcome ...

Aug 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of Afghans struggling to ensure the physical safety of their families after the Taliban took control of the country have an additional worry: that ...