New Smartphone Report Released

Reconnaissance International is pleased to announce the release of its new publication – ‘Smartphones for Authentication’ – the only publication of its kind.

Smartphones are revolutionising the world of identity, thanks to their ubiquity, connectivity, and computing power. As a result, they have given over 80% of the world’s population (i.e. those people currently owning smartphones) the power, not previously available to them, to conduct camera-based and fingerprint biometric testing.

Smartphones are thus accelerating the move towards more standardised identity verification methods and are giving rise to technologies that simply didn’t exist before.

These technologies are based on the various embedded attributes of smartphones, including light sources, display screen attributes, fingerprint sensors, connectivity, and camera systems.

The current and potential role of these technologies are covered at length in the new report, along with any drawbacks as far as the identity management sector is concerned.