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SmartMetric Brings Chip & Fingerprint Biometrics to Chip and PIN EMV Credit Cards
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 12/04/14 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) SmartMetric has successfully developed a super miniature fingerprint scanner that sits inside a credit card to act as the ultimate key to protect a person–s credit card. Forget passwords and computer generated tokens, by using a person–s fingerprint to activate a user–s credit or debit card "SmartMetric has made the card user the key," said SmartMetric–s President & CEO, Chaya Hendrick.The SmartMetric
Thirty-Three Percent of Data Breach Victims Become Victims of Fraud — SmartMetric Uses Biometrics Inside the Credit Card to Protect Against Fraud
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 12/01/14 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) Recent reports estimate that between 700 and 800 million personal records were exposed in 2013, and most of those in the U.S. Other reports have suggested that up to 80% of these records included Social Security Numbers. This figure for 2014 will be substantially higher given the Target, Home Depot, etc., data breaches this year.In 2013, one in three consumers who received notification of a data breach became a victim
Card Fraud Rates Continue to Increase as USA Debit Card Payments Nearly Double Credit Card Payments – SmartMetric Makes Card Based Payments Safer Using Biometrics
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 11/24/14 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) – Debit card payments exceeded the number of credit card payments for the first time around 2004. By 2012, the number of debit card payments had reached 47.0 billion — much higher than the 26.2 billion credit card payments in the same year.*A global fraud study by ACI Worldwide and the Aite Group, also highlighted that nearly 25 percent of consumers changed financial institutions due to dissatisfaction after experienc
Imagine No One Else Being Able to Use Your Credit Card — SmartMetric Ties Your Fingerprint to Your Credit Card With Its In-Card Miniature Biometric Reader
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 11/17/14 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) — Imagine a safer credit card that locks out thieves using the power of biometrics. SmartMetric, having spent more than a decade in research and development, has achieved what is nothing short of a major engineering breakthrough in creating a fully functional biometric fingerprint reader inside a chip debit and credit card. According to SmartMetric–s President & CEO, Chaya Hendrick, the biometric in-card reader i
A Chip on Your Credit Card Is Coming to Your Card in Your Wallet – SmartMetric Makes Chip Credit and Debit Cards Even Safer Using Its In-Card Biometric Identification
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 11/14/14 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) It is estimated that by the end of 2015 70% of payment cards in the United States will have a chip on them. The chip is called an EMV chip that takes the card user–s information that is stored on the card–s magnetic strip. In countries that have adopted chips on cards they have seen a drop of approximately 50% in card fraud rates. However this little chip hasn–t eradicated fraud with fraudsters finding ways around t
77% of Consumers Do Not Trust the Security of Mobile Apps — SmartMetric Says New Consumer Survey Shows the Failure and Distrust of Old Verification Systems
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 11/12/14 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) Nearly 50% of consumers have been a victim of a data breach, according to a new research report released by RSA in conjunction with the Ponemon Institute. Surveying consumers in the United States it found that nearly half had fallen victim to at least one data breach and 45% say they are not confident they know all instances of when their personal information has been leaked.Mobile payments ranked highest on the list i
VISANOW Charged Up With Funding From General Catalyst Partners; Addition of Prominent Board Members
Funding Will Fuel Further Development of Transformational Technology to Disrupt Multi-Billion Dollar Immigration Services Market
Biometric Activated Credit Card by SmartMetric Has the Computer Power of a Smartphone Inside a Credit Card
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 11/10/14 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) — The biometric fingerprint activated credit, debit and identity card developed by SmartMetric has the computing power of today–s smartphones, according to SmartMetric–s President & CEO, Chaya Hendrick. Using a Cortex based microprocessor embedded inside the card on a complex circuit board, all less than 1/3 the thickness of a credit card, has enabled SmartMetric to create an advanced new miniature mobile comput
SmartMetric Says Nearly Half of Consumers Say They Will Use Cash Rather Than Cards Because of Security Concerns
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 11/06/14 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) — A recent survey shows that nearly half of respondents said they will move away from using cards this holiday shopping period and will instead use cash. The research report, conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International on behalf of credit cards. com, said, "Some cardholders are vowing to avoid using plastic this holiday season, with 48 percent saying security breaches will make them more likel