Active and passive liveness detection – which one to use for authentication
Active and Passive Liveness Detection: Which one should you use for authentication? Active or Passive Liveness Detection against Fraud Online fraud and identity theft are still increasing in today’s world. Although many people consider the risk of becoming a victim of...
Join BioID for the Long Night of Sciences on May 21st, 2022
Join BioID for the Long Night of Sciences on May 21st, 2022! Have you ever wondered how facial biometrics works? Or what biometric liveness detection is? Or whether biometric developers are really nerds? If so, now you will have the opportunity to find the...
Deepfakes and Fraud Prevention in Biometrics
Deepfakes & Fraud Prevention in Biometrics Looking at biometrics and their relevance regarding the internet and online presence, identity fraud is an important issue to mention. To date, most people do not have a clear understanding of the potential risks...
Deepfake Detection Research
Deepfake Detection Research Funded by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research Nuremberg, Germany – November 30th, 2021: German biometrics company BioID today announced its engagement in FAKE-ID, a project on deepfake detection funded by the German...
Payment Service Provider MobiPay Chooses BioID to Protect IDaaS
Digital Payment Service Provider MobiPay Chooses BioID to Protect IDaaS Nuremberg, Germany and Windhoek, Namibia – May 25th, 2021 Digital Payment Service Provider MobiPay chooses to use BioID’s Liveness Detection to empower their Identity as a Service solution...
Insurance Platform Provider GFlex40 Chooses BioID for Anti-Spoofing
Insurance Platform Provider GFlex40 Chooses BioID for Anti-Spoofing Nuremberg, Germany and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – April 27th, 2021 Insurance Platform provider GFlex40, Malaysia’s first digital managing general agent, chooses BioID to deliver its...
German TÜViT successfully audits BioID PAD for ISO/IEC 30107-3 compliance
BioID Liveness Detection compliant with ISO/IEC 30107-3 German accredited laboratory TÜViT successfully audits BioID PAD on level A and B attacks Nuremberg, Germany – February 1st, 2021Biometrics-as-a-Service provider BioID GmbH today announced the...
Press Release: ARIADNEXT receives FIDO biometric certification using BioID liveness detection
ARIADNEXT receives FIDO biometric certification powered by BioID liveness detection Nuremberg, Germany and Paris, France -November 23rd, 2020 Biometrics-as-a-Service developer BioID and ARIADNEXT, a French digital identity provider, today announced their...
Use Case QualityCheck API: Automated biometric ID photos from Photobooth-Deluxe
Photobooth-Deluxe automates passport photo creation with BioID Biometric ID pictures with API for automated quality assessment Ochsenfurt and Nuremberg, Germany – October 30th, 2020 – Photobooth-Deluxe, a provider of mobile photobooth systems from Germany...
PRESS RELEASE: LCX and BioID Partner to Innovate Crypto Compliance
LCX and BioID Partner to Innovate Crypto Compliance with AI-Powered Biometrics Nuremberg, Germany and Vaduz, Liechtenstein – September 24th, 2020 – LCX AG (Liechtenstein Cryptoassets Exchange) has announced the collaboration with German biometrics provider...
PRESS RELEASE: BioID chosen as trusted technology partner by South African Comcorp
South African identity provider Comcorp chooses BioID as a trusted technology partner Nuremberg, Germany and Bryanston, South Africa – July 7th, 2020 – Comcorp, a leading identity provider in South Africa, has confidently announced its selection of German...
PRESS RELEASE: BioID automates Digidentity’s identity proofing for British government
BioID liveness detection automates Digidentity’s identity proofing for British government service GOV.UK Verify Nuremberg, Germany and The Hague, Netherlands – June 17th, 2020 – German biometrics company BioID and Dutch identity provider Digidentity, part of...
Liveness Detection Certification ISO/IEC 30107-3
Liveness Detection Certification, FIDO Certification and PAD Evaluations Process & Standards for Certified Liveness Detection Also known as presentation attack detection (PAD), liveness detection certification and certified liveness detection solutions have...
Biometric Access Control – Open the door via Nuki Smart Lock and BioID face recognition
Biometric access control Open the door via Nuki Smart Lock and BioID face recognition Working for a keyless future, the Austrian company Nuki offers smart access systems that use mobile solutions as keys. Part of their offer is the Nuki Smart Lock which can be...
In the year of PAD and AI – BioID wishes a Merry X-Mas
In the year of PAD and AI – BioID wishes a Merry X-Mas 2020 As we approach the end of the year, during which the world has seen significant advancements in technology such as PAD and AI, BioID would like to extend our warmest holiday greetings to all our...
Biometrics Made in Germany – Visit BioID at Long Night of Sciences 2019
Biometrics Made in Germany Visit BioID at Long Night of Sciences 2019 Ever wondered how the BioID office looks like and where we do our research and development for liveness detection and facial biometrics? This year, BioID is proud exhibitor at the well-known...
Dissolving the Myth of Easy-To-Fake Face Recognition
Presentation Attack Detection: Dissolving the Myth of easy-to-fake Face Recognition One of the most common assumptions concerning face recognition is that it can easily be faked with one’s photo ‒ which, in times of Facebook and Instagram, is publicly available...
PRESS RELEASE: BioID and POS AG cooperate for biometric SIM card activation service
A biometric identity proofing collaboration between BioID and POS AG Prepaid SIM card activation – anytime, anywhere Nuremberg, Germany and Braunau am Inn, Austria – June 18, 2019 Biometrics-as-a-Service provider BioID announced today their integration into POS...
BioID Enables Biometric Password Reset for TESIS SYSware
BioID enables Biometric Password Reset in TESIS SYSware’s Corporate Software ASPR Nuremberg and Munich, Germany – May 13th, 2019 Cloud biometrics developer BioID announced today the integration of the BioID Web Service (BWS) by the software developer TESIS...
Boosted PhotoVerify performance – New release!
Boosted PhotoVerify performance – New release! Breakthrough for KYC Onboarding Mutual exchange with our customers on the identity market and continuous development by the R&D team in Nuremberg have ultimately catered to our new PhotoVerify release which has...
Selecting a biometric security vendor
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 Christmas Greetings
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...
Deep Learning Revolutionizes Biometric Authentication
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...
Pikcio partners with BioID to deliver age verification as a service
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...
Catfish identity theft stopped by biometric authentication
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...
Upcoming events and conferences with BioID®
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 the Keyp identity ecosystem
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....
Permanent position as Software Developer Android in Nuremberg
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...
BioID launches new biometrics Playground with online demo
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® presenting at Intersec Forum Frankfurt March 23
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
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...
New BioID® PhotoVerify enables automated ID checks
New BioID® PhotoVerify enables automated ID checks Nuremberg, Germany – 29.11.2017: BioID, a leader in multimodal biometrics as a service, has announced the release of a PhotoVerify API as part of the BioID Web Service (BWS). With this service, online providers...
BioID® steps up its data privacy and protection commitment
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...
BioID® collaborates with any2any for convenient user experience
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...
BioID® launches eye recognition web service in public beta release
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...
BioID® launches face recognition app for Android with source code
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
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® collaborates with A-Trust for secure signature solution
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 available to guard against Video Attacks
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...
Multi-factor authentication available to secure your BioID® account
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,...
Multifactor authentication with mobile 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 launches facial recognition app for iOS
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...
Branddocs partners with BioID to deliver e-signing with a selfie
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...
Guarding against biometric fraud with BioID liveness detection
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...
Applying for a free BioID trial instance
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...