Biometrics 101

Posted under Biometrics, Identification, Privacy on September 28th, 2013 by

pii2013 t-shirt designWe are always happy to participate in the conferences put on by privacy identity innovation and this year was no exception. We have participated in pii conferences for the last three years and have always met interesting people, found new companies and generally had a great time with kindred spirits.

This year, BeehiveID was in the Technology Showcase of pii2013.

Also, our co-founder, Dr. Alex Kilpatrick did a short presentation on Biometrics 101 at the traditional Ignite! event held during the conference. If you aren’t familiar with the Ignite! format you should go look it up. The format is 5 minutes – you have 20 slides and they auto advance every 15 seconds. This means the timing is super tricky and nothing like anything you have ever done. Ignite! presentations traditionally cover a wide range of topics and tend to be both entertaining and interesting.

This year our co-founder, Dr. Alex Kilpatrick, did an Ignite! presentation called “Lies, Damned Lies and Biometrics” which quickly covers some common misconceptions about biometric technology.

You can watch it here:

Privacy Concerns

Posted under Biometrics, Privacy on March 7th, 2013 by

As a co-founder of a company focused on bringing biometric matching to the masses, I sometimes encounter people who assume that I’m not interested in privacy. Admittedly the Department of Defense background doesn’t help. It’s a balance though – privacy is an issue I’m really interested in and we think about it often. I see great reasons for anonymity on the internet and in other places in the world but I also see it abused. Political speech is one example but by no means the only one. There are great use cases that support strong identity on the internet and in the world as well. When I’m reading a product review, I would like to know if the person writing the review is a real person. They are both right.

Alex and I talk about this often. Here’s an Ignite presentation he did a while ago on how to defeat biometric technology: