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By Lina Andolf-Orup, Senior Director Marketing at Fingerprints We may be halfway through 2019, but as the year hurtles onwards, it’s important to pause and reflect on the latest and greatest news from Q2. With milestones surpassed – and fading into the distance – coupled with the ongoing adoption of biometrics to bring trust to new use cases, Q2 has contributed to a very successful first half of the year. Here’s my top biometrics news picks from the past three months. The irresistible advance of biometrics In May, we announced that Fingerprints has shipped 1 billion biometric sensors worldwide. This announcement was not only an important landmark for us, but for the industry, as it demonstrates the ongoing commitment to, and mass adoption of, biometric authentication. Contributing to this ...

By Jonas Nilsson, Product Manager at Fingerprints Biometric authentication has come a long way in recent years. Launched in the first Android smartphone almost five years ago, fingerprint touch sensors have quickly overtaken PIN as consumers’ preferred authentication method. Now, demand for the same level of security and seamless UX is growing across other payments form factors like smartcards and wearables. But as we look to the future, it’s worth taking a closer look at how the changing size and performance of biometrics came to transform the smartphone market, and what that means for these new form factors. Biometrics’ march into mobile Since entering the mobile market, we’ve continually been refining our biometric technology to meet ever-evolving customer and device maker requirements...

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Fingerprint On The Pulse: Biometrics On The Move In More Places Than One

Biometric payments – forget sensor size, focus on performance