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Greece goes its own way – and drops EU entry-exit biometrics for British travellers

Greece goes its own way – and drops EU entry-exit biometrics for British travellers

Published by Sam Flores

You might remember the term “Grexit”. It was floating around towards the end of the last decade when there was talk that Greece might follow the UK in taking the brave decision to leave the European Union. You will have noticed that never happened. Neither did the rumours that Greece might tumble out of the euro – abandoning the single currency in favour of a new drachma – come to anything. Talk of vaults full of freshly printed banknotes ready to enter circulation from Athens to Zante proved false. Yet this weekend it has emerged that Greece is choosing its own course to avoid the sorts of airport chaos that we have been witnessing at various European locations for the past week. As you may recall, since 10 April, every Schengen area frontier is supposed to be applying the EU entry-exit system in all its biometric glory to British passport holders: Fingerprints and facial biometric at first registration One of those biometrics (almost always the face) on subsequent border crossings These rules apply to all …

CardLab launches world-first FIDO-certified biometric card

CardLab launches world-first FIDO-certified biometric card

Published by skeptic

Billions of dollars and working hours are lost every year, with numbers rapidly increasing, as employees spend lots of time updating, changing and replacing lost or forgotten passwords and PIN codes. Unfortunately, a necessary task as fraudsters become more active and skilled at hacking, card skimming, electronics pickpocketing and identity theft. As we try to make digital life safer with complex passwords and access procedures, we also see a rapid increase in workarounds to help you remember the passwords you cannot remember, thereby creating new data theft risks. Digital life is complex and costly in trying to prevent the loss of critical company, financial, and private data. CardLab introduces a biometric FIDO solution CardLab did some years ago take on the task to make the digital life both easy and cost effective and we are therefore happy today to release a FIDO-certified biometric card solution that saves companies a lot of time and resources as the CardLab solution being released today replaces the need for passwords for logical access solution but at the same time …

Whole Foods Ditching Its “Dystopian” Pay-By-Palm Biometric Payment Option

Whole Foods Ditching Its “Dystopian” Pay-By-Palm Biometric Payment Option

Published by Jenni Sidey

Whole Foods Market is shutting down its palm-scan payment system nationwide, removing the devices from more than 500 stores by June 3 after shoppers largely ignored them. The chain, owned by Amazon, had pitched the feature as a frictionless way to pay. Instead, it became an experiment few customers embraced, according to The Daily Mail. The program, called Amazon One, allowed shoppers to link their Amazon accounts to a scan of their palm and check out with a wave of the hand. Amazon says it processes more than a million biometric authentications each month across locations where the service operates, but a spokesperson said weak adoption at Whole Foods drove the decision to discontinue it there. In interviews at a Union Square store in Manhattan, none of the dozen customers surveyed had used the scanners. Several said they had never seen anyone else try. “I haven’t [used palm payment], and I haven’t seen anyone use it before,” said Priscilla Flete. After learning how the system worked, she added, “It’s a bit invasive.” The Daily Mail …

Securing digital identity through advanced biometric authentication

Securing digital identity through advanced biometric authentication

Published by skeptic

CardLab provides passwordless biometric authentication, protecting enterprises and critical infrastructure from evolving cyber threats and now adds FIDO-certified biometric card and server login solutions. Cybersecurity and digital convenience are now major hot topics, something CardLab foresaw and addressed by adapting our current strategic focus. With global cybercrime costs reaching $9.22tr in 2024 and projected to surge to $14tr by 2028, and with the introduction of quantum computing we must realize that traditional security measures are failing. Stolen credentials, human error, cyber warfare, social engineering, and privilege misuse, such as credential and password sharing, present major risks to digital infrastructure. CardLab has taken on the challenge to solve this by replacing passwords and conventional authentication methods with a much safer and more convenient biometric authentication method. Since our incorporation in 2006, CardLab has addressed these ever-increasing threats with a mission to provide security that is convenient, reliable, and scalable. As a global leader in advanced biometrics, the company specialises in logical and physical access control, identity management, and infrastructure protection. Research and development of biometric cards …

Worldcoin Spikes 40% As OpenAI Reportedly Plans Biometric X Rival

Worldcoin Spikes 40% As OpenAI Reportedly Plans Biometric X Rival

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Brian Quarmby via Cointelegraph, OpenAI-linked token Worldcoin spiked 40% on Wednesday following a report that the artificial intelligence firm is working on a bot-free social media platform that requires “proof of personhood.”   According to a Tuesday Forbes report citing sources familiar with the matter, OpenAI is aiming to develop a “humans-only platform” as a point of difference from other social media services on the market.  Still in its early stages, sources state that a small team of around 10 people is building the platform to compete with X, and that it has reportedly been in development since early 2025, according to tech news outlet The Verge. Forbes’ sources claimed that any “proof of personhood” would likely be verified via Apple’s Face ID or the World Orb eyeball scanner, which has also been utilized as part of World, the blockchain and crypto project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.  The report coincided with a 40% price pump for Worldcoin to $0.63; however, the price has since pulled back to $0.54 at the time of …

Securing digital identity through biometric authentication

Securing digital identity through biometric authentication

Published by skeptic

CardLab introduces QuardLock, a new era in cybersecurity that offers passwordless authentication with FIDO2 offline biometric fingerprint cards and a certified backend server. State-of-the-art cybersecurity CardLab has developed a biometric ‘authentication as a service’ solution based on biometric smartcards in different configurations for logical and physical access control, combined with a backend authentication system. These biometric smartcards are always offline and play a central role in our consolidated cybersecurity platform. Fingerprint templates are encrypted in the card’s secure element and never leave it. Private keys that are used for authentication and transaction signing are also encrypted in the card’s secure element and never leave it. Nothing in the cards’ secure element is accessible from outside, providing a new level of hacker-proof cybersecurity solution. QuardLock is CardLab’s centralised identity platform, combining an open directory with a single layer that connects and governs access across all IT resources. Securely connect users to their devices, servers, networks, apps, and files, where the “QuardLock” solution can serve as an authoritative directory or defer to existing identity providers. CardLab provides …

Shoppers express concern as major grocery store introduces biometric surveillance

Shoppers express concern as major grocery store introduces biometric surveillance

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Wegmans is now using facial scanners to collect and store biometric data from grocery store shoppers, sparking privacy concerns among customers. The popular supermarket chain quietly rolled out the new surveillance software at stores with an “elevated risk” in what they called an effort to increase safety. Despite mandated signs placed at New York City store entrances announcing that the cameras inside scan faces and store information, many shoppers say they were caught off guard by the system, describing it as invasive and alarming. “Why are they watching me?” shopper Deborah Tozzi asked The Independent during her grocery run Tuesday morning, adding that she would not have noticed the sign, which is off to the side of the automatic entrance doors. “Why would they …

Shoppers express concern as major grocery store introduces biometric surveillance

Major grocery store rolls out biometric surveillance to combat shoplifting

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Wegmans is now using facial scanners to collect and store biometric data from grocery store shoppers, sparking privacy concerns among customers. The popular supermarket chain quietly rolled out the new surveillance software at stores with an “elevated risk” in what they called an effort to increase safety. Despite mandated signs placed at New York City store entrances announcing that the cameras inside scan faces and store information, shoppers are raising alarm bells over the surprise surveillance and dubbing it an invasion of privacy. “Why are they watching me?” shopper Deborah Tozzi asked The Independent during her grocery run Tuesday morning, adding that she would not have noticed the sign, which is off to the side of the automatic entrance doors. “Why would they want …