Authentic Biometric
On Aug. 17, SK Planet announced that its biometric authentication solution passed an interoperability test by the Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) Alliance.
The Korean company is going to integrate its biometric authentication solution that supports FIDO specifications into mobile shopping service Syrup and online shopping mall website 11 Street within the year so that users can make mobile payments based on fingerprint identification technology.
The firm also plans to use the solution in the Internet of Things and Online to Offline businesses through partnerships, in addition to its services that require identity verification.
The FIDO Alliance is an industry consortium launched in Feb. 2013 by six companies such as PayPal and Infineon Technologies to respond to problems with personal information protection and to improve online authentication methods. It has more than 200 members, and issues a standardized authentication certificate, after conducting a test to check that the technology in question can confirm user identity through biometric authentication.