Biometrics

From your walk and your body odour to the shapes of your ears and your backside, scientists are finding many surprising ways of identifying you

Retail stores are turning to facial recognition technology and customer tracking tools to fight against shoplifters. Jonathan Keane reports.

Queuing to be searched at the airport is a major downside of going on holiday. What is the airline industry doing to improve it? Katia Moskvitch investigates.

An anthropologist proposes a hi-tech solution to tackle debt and financial exclusion.

Sci-fi novelist Elizabeth Moon says that everyone should be given a unique ID at birth that would provide an easy, inexpensive way to identify individuals.

A computer bug called Heartbleed has exposed just how vulnerable online passwords are. BBC Future profiled tech to replace them – including an edible capsule

With a chip under your skin, you can do everything from unlocking doors to starting motorbikes, says Frank Swain, who has been trying to get his own implant

Within hours of its launch, a German-based organisation claimed to have hacked Apple's system. How hard is this to do. Head squeeze’s Mark Champkins explains.