biometric scanning

AWS brings Amazon One palm-scanning authentication to the enterprise

Amazon’s cloud computing subsidiary AWS (Amazon Web Services) has lifted the lid on a new palm-scanning identity service that allows companies to authenticate people when entering physical premi

Lawmakers ask Amazon what it plans to do with palm print biometric data

A group of senators sent new Amazon CEO Andy Jassy a letter Friday pressing the company for more information about how it scans and stores customer palm prints for use in some of its retail stores. Th

Microsoft extends its Windows Hello login security features to apps and the web

Being able to log in to an app with the help of the fingerprint scanner is quickly becoming a standard feature on mobile. But while Windows PCs and laptops have long had fingerprint scanners to allow

It just takes 70 cents and a day of work to beat biometric airport fingerprint scans

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/biometric_japan.jpg" /> Japan (and the US) are using biometric fingerprint readers to prevent terrorists and illegal immigrants from ent