In August 2023, I talked about what I called a “great renaming” in which the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) differentiated between its face recognition tests and its face analysis tests: a very important distinction and a critical update.
The ramifications of that renaming persist. Just last week I reminded a biometric firm that its references to “FRVT” were dated.
But what if references to biometrics are dated?
Find…what?
Over twenty years ago a publication called FindBiometrics was established that discussed you-know-what. Fingerprints, faces, irises, and all sorts of stuff.
You would think that a name that incorporated “biometrics” would be all inclusive. It certainly was twenty years ago. But as the industry evolved, the name became a little dated. While biometrics remain critically important, I have to say (with apologies to my former Motorola colleague Edward Chen) that biometrics is not “4” ALL. (You see what I did there.)
The publication realized this also, and performed its own great renaming.
“TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, November 21, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ — FindBiometrics, a leading news media platform for the biometrics and digital identity industry, is now ID Tech—a refreshed brand identity that reflects the beginning of a new era in the identity technology space.”
Why?
“…the scope of identity tech has expanded to integrate new developments in areas like artificial intelligence, blockchain, and digital ID.”
One example being mobile driver’s licenses, which can utilize biometrics but goes far beyond it. After all, biometrics (something you are) is just one of the six factors of identity verification and authentication. See below.
So now the former FindBiometrics platform is called “ID Tech,” and its URL is now https://idtechwire.com/. And biometrics now shares the stage with other factors.
But ID Tech isn’t the only place to learn about identity beyond biometrics. There’s also my book.
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