Here’s another place where passwords need to take a hike: healthcare. Bruce Forman, chief information security officer for UMass Memorial Health Care, tells PYMNTS that healthcare needs to take a lesson from financial services, embrace biometrics and two-factor authentication, and give complex passwords the heave-ho.
It might not have been inevitable, perhaps, but it was certainly expected: a regulatory backlash concerning the booming trade (both online and in brick-and-mortar stores) of eCigarettes, with their different flavors attractive to younger consumers — including underaged ones. However, that backlash also promises to drive...
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With facial recognition growing in popularity and uses showing up everywhere from the airport to retailers, two U.S. senators introduced legislation that would prevent businesses from collecting and using facial recognition data without the consent of consumers. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...
The password doesn’t get a lot of love these days, and not for entirely unfair reasons. Consumers in 2019 are well past the point where they have a few digital relationships such that they only have to remember a password or two — they have...
A subway operator in Shenzhen, China is testing facial recognition software, powered by a 5G network, to pay for entry, according to reports. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...
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National identification systems are moving behind physical documents. Several global markets are integrating biometric data — including facial recognition and fingerprints — into various national ID systems as a means of improving border security, authenticating licensed drivers and more. The following Deep Dive highlights several...
