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Research Forecasts Next Wave of Wearable Biometric Identification
by Nicholas West
Tech Swarm
The move to give everyone a global unique ID that can be verified across nearly all human activity continues to be incrementally rolled out.
The fear of identity theft and cyber-banking crime of all stripes has been the sales pitch to accept identity tech such as facial recognition, iris scans, vein scans, voiceprinting and fingerprinting, as well as their attendant databases.
Digital sign-in services, smart cards and a range of biometrics have all been offered as perfect solutions that are starting to enter the market at many levels. Moreover, there is an ongoing cooperative effort between global banks and corporations to ensure that there will be standardized, centralized entry into the consumer/internet/banking matrix of the future. Couple this with the (hackable) “Internet of Things” entering our homes whether we approve or not and we are finding ourselves at the threshold of a new reality.
A London-based research and consultancy group called Goode Intelligence reveals the evolution of wearable technology and biometrics in a recent update to their forecast of the global biometric industry and authentication agenda. Most notably, they show how disparate parts of authentication systems and smart gadgets are beginning to merge with the Internet of Things.
As I've mentioned in previous articles, in the future YOU will be the password. Even though Goode Intelligence is clearly invested in the proliferation of this technology, their press release is an important read as it offers up many of the signposts for those concerned about the increasing pervasiveness of this technology.
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Source: http://www.riseearth.com/2014/11/research-forecasts-next-wave-of.html
