Contactless fingerprint biometrics have advanced to the point that they are ready for law enforcement applications, as shown by the latest NIST mFIT Challenge results, IB and Sciometrics executives tell Biometric Update. Their joint entry scored the best accuracy result, while Idemia and Telos took top overall marks in Phase 2 for a smartphone-based mobile application to match fingerprints against a database populated with templates derived from contact-based scans.
More FIDO in the News
PaymentsJournal: EMVCo Proposes Standards for Stronger Payment Authentication
EMVCo has released a draft framework that could pave the way for a universal standard…
Biometric Update: Yubico hackathon to preview YubiKey 5.8 support for next-generation passkeys
Yubico will host a virtual developer hackathon for the FIDO Alliance developer community on August 5…
PYMNTS: Mastercard Wants to Teach AI Agents How to Spend
For nearly 60 years, Mastercard has answered one question over and over. How do you get two…
Subscribe to the FIDO newsletter
Stay Connected, Stay Engaged
Receive the latest news, events, research and implementation guidance from the FIDO Alliance. Learn about digital identity and fast, phishing-resistant authentication with passkeys.
"*" indicates required fields
