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Why authentication expertise matters when selecting a biometric security vendor   The majority of biometrics vendors today concentrate on law enforcement, surveillance and forensic applications. Is such a vendor the best choice when it comes to authentication...

Biometric New Year Greetings 2018 - A Significant Year for Privacy   As we approach the end of the year, we would like to take this opportunity to extend our New Year Greetings to all our partners and friends, both old and new. The introduction of the EU's...

Deep Learning Revolutionizes Biometric Authentication The new NIST face recognition vendor test necessitates the use of Biometrics as a Service (SaaS).   Every few years, the NIST conducts the Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) to evaluate the performance of...

Press release: Pikcio partners with BioID to deliver age verification as a service     Nuremberg, Germany and Lausanne, Switzerland – November 20th, 2018 – Blockchain-based data exchange company Pikcio and cloud biometrics developer BioID have announced a...

Why image search catfish is the new favorite term looked for on Google Catfish identity theft stopped by biometric authentication   A catfish is someone who uses someone else’s identity. Most of the time, people do this on social networks to pretend they are...

Meet BioID in Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Seattle, or Singapore! With the upcoming season of exhibitions and events, we are proud to announce that we will be part of highly interesting conferences and events around the world. This is why we would like to...

BioID® secures digital identities within Keyp identity ecosystem   Drag-and-drop biometric authentication Nuremberg and Munich, Germany – July 31st, 2018 – BioID, the pioneer for ”Biometrics-as-a-Service”, has announced a cooperation with Munich Startup Keyp....

WE ARE HIRING - SOFTWARE DEVELOPER! Permanent position as Software Developer Android Nuremberg   Would you like to become part of an innovative industry and shape the future of biometric authentication technology?  Good - we are Hiring! For our team in Nuremberg,...

The BioID Biometrics Playground A free-of-charge online demo BioID now makes its entertaining new biometrics Playground available. The face recognition company has just introduced its new Website in January 2018 and now adds many features for testing the speed and...

BioID at Intersec Forum Frankfurt   BioID is honored to be presenting at the Intersec Forum in Frankfurt on March 23rd, 2018. As part of the exhibition Light+Building, the conference Intersec Forum Smart Access will provide interesting topics in the fields of...

BioID® adds replay defender against biometric spoofing New liveness detection will detect photo, video and avatar attacks   Nuremberg, Germany – January 29, 2018 – Cloud biometrics developer BioID® today announced a new liveness detection feature that adds to the...

BioID enhancing Data Privacy and Protection Commitment   Nuremberg, Germany - 08.11.2017: BioID, a leader in multimodal “Biometrics as a Service”, has entered into agreements with both Microsoft Cloud Germany and Deutsche Telekom. Its highly in-demand BioID Web...

BioID® collaborates with any2any for a secure user journey and convenient user experience   Nuremberg and Munich, Germany – October 9, 2017 – any2any: The cloud biometrics developer BioID and any2any, an experience platform, have partnered to use BioID's face...

BioID offers Patented Eye Recognition in BWS   Sometimes there's more to something than the eye can see. And sometimes all that is needed is the right eye on things. When it comes to philosophical approaches, our eyes are more often than not at the center of...

BioID® launches face recognition app for Android with source code   Cloud biometrics developer BioID today announced the release of the Android version of its face recognition authenticator and the availability of source code for both the Android and iOS versions...

BioID partners with Worldcore for Biometric Online Payments   Nuremberg, Germany and Prague, Czech Republic – February 14, 2017 – Internet financial services provider Worldcore and cloud biometrics developer BioID today announced a joint project in which BioID’s...

BioID® is collaborating with A-Trust for a secure signature solution   With the new EU eIDAS regulation that went into effect on July 1, especially in Germany the demand is extremely high for a secure signature solution that is valid across the EU. For this...

Biometrics - based Challenge-response to guard against Video-Replay Attacks   One of the challenges in biometrics is to protect against so-called video replay attacks, where a person's biometrics are copied or recorded and presented by an impostor to mimic the...

Multi-factor authentication available to secure your BioID® account   For additional protection, you can now protect your BioID account with multi-factor authentication! It's available, easy, and flexible, simply log in using any two factors: biometrics,...

User authentication is the process of verifying a user's identity in order to grant access to data and services. Traditional authentication relies on passwords, but it is all too clear that this is no longer an acceptable solution. On the one hand, advances in...

BioID GmbH, a cloud biometrics leader, today announced the availability of the BioID Facial Recognition app for iPhone and iPad. The launch of the free app enables developers and companies to add biometric authentication to their mobile platforms with just a few lines...

BioID AG, a cloud biometrics leader, and Branddocs Inc., a provider of digital transaction management solutions (DTM) for eDocuments in Spain and Latin America, today announced a partnership to integrate and deliver BioID’s mobile multimodal biometric authentication...

One of the top advantages of biometric authentication is that, unlike a password or token, the credentials can't be stolen. However, they can be copied. In the case of face recognition, it is easy for a determined attacker to get a photo or video of their victim,...

The BioID Web Service (BWS) offers a biometric service for a great variety of use cases. It can be integrated for web based as well as mobile applications easily. Besides testing the technology in the demo app available for iOS and Android, the biometric service can...

BioID GmbH, a leader in cloud biometrics, today announced a new biometric authentication service based on the OAuth 2.0 authorization standard and the company’s own BioID Web Service (BWS). The service enables fast and easy...