• Fake Fingers, Stolen Prints, and other Popular Biometric Myths.

    November 15, 2018 Alissa

    As the old saying goes, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but sometimes the truth is already pretty strange. Being able to identify someone in seconds using only their eyes or fingertips seems far-fetched, so it’s no surprise that biometrics would be mired in misinformation and misunderstanding.     Myth 1: You can easily alter,…

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  • Who You Say You Are: The Importance of Release Verification

    August 9, 2018 Alissa

    In an age of facial recognition, fingerprinting, and iris scanning, it’s easier than ever to know who is who. Famous cases of mistaken identity, like the 1903 case of Will and William West, two unrelated men whose identical measurements nearly got both of them life sentences, are becoming fewer and farther between. However, these steady…

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