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Francis Tuffy

3 Dec. 2025

1 min read

Secure Account Recovery with Biometrics

The Biometrics Institute has released a new good practice paper, Biometrics and Account Recovery, focusing on one of the weakest links in digital identity: how users regain access when authentication fails or accounts are compromised.

Authentication

Chander S Jeena

3 Nov. 2023

5 min read

Global Travel Developments Around Biometric Authentication

The increasing demand for business and leisure travel emerging from the pandemic has changed air travel practices in the last few years and promised passengers a quick, secure and seamless experience.

Authentication Biometrics

Francis Tuffy

2 July 2023

3 min read

What We Can Learn from Over-Reliance on Mobile-Based Authentication

The transition in the ID and secure document industry from physical to digital authentication is just one example in a wider movement across many sectors to strike a balance between convenience and security in identity verification.

Authentication

Francis Tuffy

2 March 2023

3 min read

ID R&D Awarded Patent for Continuous Biometric Authentication

In the patent titled ‘System and method for multi-modal continuous biometric authentication for messenger and virtual assistants,’ the method described uses multiple biometrics in the background during chatbot communications to enhance security without complicating the user experience.

Authentication Biometrics

Francis Tuffy

3 Jan. 2023

2 min read

A Growing Market for Student Online Identification

The traditional role of identification as a means to uniquely link a person to a document that bestows rights and privileges is being expanded to grant access to all types of government and commercial services.

Authentication Onboarding

Francis Tuffy

3 Oct. 2022

2 min read

Veridos Presents New Verification Devices

Veridos, a leading provider of integrated identity solutions, announced the launch of its new VeriCHECK SelfKiosk and M600 document reader at this year’s Future Travel Experience Global.

Authentication Company

Francis Tuffy

4 Sept. 2022

2 min read

Regula Rethinks the Conventional Process of Border Control

The almost unlimited access to high-quality printing services, as well as to sophisticated graphics software, has increased the quality of document forgery in recent years to the point where it is becoming more difficult for border control officers to tell the difference between real and fake secure documents.

Authentication Fraud Detection

Francis Tuffy

8 June 2022

3 min read

Elon Musk Wants to Authenticate All Twitter Users

Behind the ‘will-he-won’t-he’ and the ‘can-he-can’t-he’ stories of Elon Musk’s attempts to acquire Twitter lurks another equally interesting tussle about identity, and how we assert and verify it when we are not physically present.

Authentication

Francis Tuffy

3 March 2022

3 min read

The Strange Case of the IRS and Facial Recognition

In what looks like a fairly hasty policy revision, the US Inland Revenue Service has modified its position that online tax filers would be required to submit a selfie to a third-party identity verification company in order to access their accounts.

Authentication Government

Francis Tuffy

22 Dec. 2021

2 min read

Document Checking in Challenging Environments

Each year, the ID and secure document industry produces tens of millions of documents that require fast and reliable examination to confirm their authenticity.

Authentication

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Nicola Sudan

7 Dec. 2021

8 min read

VDS – More Than Just a Low-Cost Alternative to Document Microchips

The new visible digital seals (VDS), originally adopted by countries for travel document verification, are now gaining wider international acceptance as affordable and efficient solutions to the global challenge of providing travellers with an internationally verifiable proof of health.

Authentication

Francis Tuffy

7 Dec. 2021

2 min read

Biometric Authentication for Dummies

London based cyber-security business, iProov, has published a guide providing an overview of how organisations across all industries can use biometric authentication to maximise their potential return on investment.

Authentication

Alan Hodgson

24 Oct. 2021

5 min read

Fingerprint Technology in the Age of COVID

As with any change in the market environment, there will be sectors that will decline but also areas of opportunity. The seismic changes resulting from the COVID pandemic have resulted in both immediate and long-term changes across most if not all market sectors.

Authentication Free Free

Francis Tuffy

31 Aug. 2021

6 min read

ISO Standards for Secure Document Authentication

Like them or loathe them, mutually recognised standards are the cornerstone of international trade. The recent release of a new ISO standard for product and document authentication (ISO 22383:2020) adds to a library of ISO standards that are reviewed in this edition of ID & Secure Document News™ and June’s edition of its sister publication, Authentication News®.

Authentication Free Free

Latest News

Secure Account Recovery with Biometrics

Global Travel Developments Around Biometric Authentication

What We Can Learn from Over-Reliance on Mobile-Based Authentication

ID R&D Awarded Patent for Continuous Biometric Authentication

A Growing Market for Student Online Identification

Veridos Presents New Verification Devices

Regula Rethinks the Conventional Process of Border Control

Elon Musk Wants to Authenticate All Twitter Users

The Strange Case of the IRS and Facial Recognition

Document Checking in Challenging Environments

VDS – More Than Just a Low-Cost Alternative to Document Microchips

Biometric Authentication for Dummies

Fingerprint Technology in the Age of COVID

ISO Standards for Secure Document Authentication

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