Samsung joins Fast Identity Online Alliance for developing biometric authentication tech

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The Galaxy S5 was Samsung's first attempt to offer biometric security on its smartphones, and the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge bring the company's efforts further into the fore with fingerprint sensors that work much better than what was featured on the Galaxy S5. Now, it looks like Samsung is ready to take things a step further by joining the Fast Identity Online Alliance (FIDO), a global consortium of tech companies that are working on developing various biometric authentication systems.

Samsung SDS (part of the Samsung Group) is joining firms like Google, Microsoft, VISA and PayPal with its association with FIDO, and will lend a hand in developing standardized specifications for authentication technologies, including fingerprint scanners, NFC, and iris and voice recognition. Various patent applications and rumors have hinted at Samsung working on an iris recognition system for smartphones and tablets, and the alliance with FIDO is a good indication of the company's plans to go all-in in the attempt to make things more secure for end-users.

Samsung will be partnering with KG Mobilians and KG Inicis, a mobile transaction and credit card payment firm respectively, to launch a basic payment service using fingerprint authentication in April. Samsung's in-house biometric solution is the second in the world to be certified by FIDO, though it remains to be seen if this service is the same as Samsung Pay or something different.

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Abhijeet's writing career started with guides for custom firmware for Samsung devices (including the original Galaxy S), and he moved to SamMobile in mid-2013 and worked up the ranks to Editor-in-chief. In addition to phones and mobile devices, his interests include gaming on both PC and console, PC hardware, and spending countless hours on YouTube watching videos on tech, movies, games, politics, and internet dramas.

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Samsung joins Fast Identity Online Alliance for developing biometric authentication tech

Abhijeet Mishra - Editor-in-Chief

[email protected]

First Samsung device: SGH-D500

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