Imagine walking into a bank and having your account flash onto the teller’s computer screen before you even say a word. Or consider what it would be like to call your institution’s customer service ...

April 6, 2022 - Set in the year 2054, Steven Spielberg's 2002 science fiction film, "Minority Report," previews a future in which our personal biometric data — our unique biological characteristics ...

BOSTON -- Losing your student ID can be a major hassle. You lose access to your room, your dining plan and cash in the form of convenience points. But imagine if your ID was permanently ingrained in ...

Technology companies say it won’t be long before people can use scans of their fingerprints — or even their faces — to start their cars, access their bank accounts or buy lunch at a school cafeteria.

Fingerprint scanners are just one kind of technology for biometric scanning or authentication. There are also iris and retina scanners, technology that scans a body or face to identify a person, voice ...

JetBlue and Delta are studying whether to do away with the paper boarding pass, even the smartphone boarding pass, and replace them with biometric scanners -- of the retina, face, or fingerprints. The ...

Has Apple managed the fine line between security and convenience? Some security experts aren't so sure. John Caspar, Hamburg commissioner for data protection and freedom of information, told German ...