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June 2016

24 Jun

Mobile Touchless Fingerprinting in an AFIS Environment

by Diamond Fortress
in AFIS, Biometrics in Law Enforcement, ONYX
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Benefits of Mobile Touchless Fingerprinting   Deploying fingerprint systems for border control and law enforcement using a solution like ONYX has obvious advantages, chiefly cost and deployability. ONYX makes it possible to use the smartphone an agent or officer already has to perform fingerprint collection, versus purchasing a standalone device which must pair via Bluetooth to the officer's phone to achieve network connectivity. These standalone devices typically...

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03 Jun

Long-term benefits of on server matching outweigh the risk

by Diamond Fortress
in On-Server Matching
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What's the big deal?   There is a position held by some in the digital security community that performing biometric matching on a server is unsafe. The notion is that to do so requires the creation and storage of a database in a centralized location of many different individuals' biometric information. Further, that this centralized database of identity information creates an irresistible target for would be fraudsters, and upon...

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