How L-1 Identification Options Got here To Be – Bredemarket

(Imagen 4. Not an exaggeration.)

The historical past of L-1 Identification Options has at all times fascinated me. I handled then-bitter enemies Digital Biometrics and Identix whereas I used to be at Printrak, with Viisage whereas I used to be at Motorola, and de facto competed with MorphoTrust whereas I used to be at MorphoTrak…till MorphoTrust in impact acquired MorphoTrak when IDEMIA NSS was arrange and I reported to a supervisor in Massachusetts.

I used to have a PowerPoint presentation that traced the household tree of all of L-1’s acquisitions. Want I nonetheless had it. However right here’s slightly style of the place issues stood earlier than Joseph Atick and Robert LaPenta began combining issues:

• Identix, whereas making some efforts within the AFIS market, targeting creating dwell scan fingerprinting machines, the place it competed (generally in court docket) in opposition to corporations resembling Digital Biometrics and Bioscrypt.
• The fingerprint corporations began to compete in opposition to facial recognition corporations, together with Viisage and Visionics. 
• Oh, and there have been additionally iris corporations resembling Iridian. 
• And there have been different methods to determine folks. Even earlier than 9/11 mandated REAL ID (which we could get any yr now), Polaroid was making nice efforts to enhance driver’s licenses to function a dependable type of identification.

(Some former hyperlinks are lifeless and have been faraway from the bullets above. However the Digital Biometrics-Identix court docket case is described right here, and Polaroid’s historical past with driver’s licenses in Utah is described right here.)

Again in 2023 I assembled a listing of “5 Matters a Biometric Content material Advertising and marketing Professional Must Perceive.” My fifth matter was “How L-1 Identification Options got here to be.” I claimed I used to be half joking, however in actuality I used to be fully severe. Regardless of related efforts by HID and others (together with IDEMIA), the sheer variety of corporations that mixed to type L-1 stays unmatched.