

The second company is footnoted as a "closed business.".The first company's product attaches to a PC via USB and "is designed for indoor use only.".

available" in 2014 online even though it "has not been published." Īfter describing 13 R&D projects in various stages of incompleteness, it identifies four "contactless fingerprint existing products." : p.11 USA DOJ report Ī 56-page report titled "Contactless Fingerprint Technologies Assessment" was funded in 2010, and version 2 of the report was "made. One such experiment used an assist: using flight manifests to compare faces with passport photos of those listed.Ī pending court case defined failures of even 1% to be "high risk" if it results in denials of government benefits. The whitepaper noted that the Canadian Border Services Agency was planning to utilize a combination of facial recognition and fingerprints.

USA Public/Private Contactless study Ī 30-page white paper titled "Risks and Opportunities of Contactless Biometrics" identified " spoofing as a serious limitation, and ranks what people know (password, challenge question) and what they have ( keycard, identify "token") higher than biometrics.Īlthough it ranks facial recognition and iris recognition ahead of contactless fingerprint identification, it is the fingerprint that ranks highest of the three for high-security situations. The use of lasers to detect fingerprints already existed in the 1980s, but this was limited to matching objects to fingerprints on file.
