Users may be concerned that the use of biometric authentication will increase the danger that they will find themselves targeted by ruthless criminals who are intent on gaining entry to the assets protected by the biometric. With non-biometric authentication, cards, keys, and passwords could be stolen and used by criminals without the presence of ...

Many encryption algorithms are publicly available to allow cryptographers to analyse and verify the strength of the encryption. Biometric algorithms are not readily available for review and are thus an unknown factor. Biometric algorithms do not generally fulfil the same purpose as cryptographic algorithms. Rather, they represent the encoding rules for the biometric feature ...

This is a sometimes heard expression of concern about the potential misuse of biometric data stored on central databases. It refers to the threat to privacy that such centralised collections of personal data could pose if compromised. Biometric data are regarded as personal data and hence subject to the controls appropriate to personal data. ...

This is related to the covert use of biometrics (see “Can my biometric be collected covertly?” previously), and to functional creep in applications. It is important to realise that authentication does not necessarily imply consent, and it is consent which is the issue of concern here. Any application could be affected though the ...

Can the biometric template or biometric feature vector be stolen, and if so what are the consequences? If biometric template data are stolen, either: · Directly, from the stored reference templates, or · By capturing the data in transit within the system, or · On a communication path between the biometric capture device and the ...

IDscan launches world’s first biometric cloakroom and lost property management system Cloakscan is the world’s first biometric cloakroom ticket system. It’s been created by the makers of pioneering ID scanning device Clubscan. Cloakscan quickly registers a fingerprint as customers leave their personal belongings. Simultaneously, it records a video still of the transaction. ...

The question of the repudiation of biometrically authenticated transactions has been the subject of widespread discussion. Such discussion is not limited to biometric authentication though; other more traditional forms are also open to debate. Generally, signatures have been accepted as legally binding indicators but they are certainly open to challenge in the courts and ...

Template integrity and confidentiality are distinctly different issues related to template data though similar solutions may be employed to deal with both problems. Template integrity is concerned with threats to the authentication process caused by planted or modified templates, whereas template confidentiality relates to the legal and privacy issues around the template data and ...

Latency or residual images are a possible security concern that could occur in 2 forms: § Physical residual biometric image, and § Latency in internal memory. This could occur through a combination of failure to clear memory, and failure to detect and correctly action a “failure to acquire” (resulting in previous biometric image or ...