Biometric authentication for e-commerce transaction

E-commerce is an outcome of globalization and technology outbreak of the 21st century. The consistency on Internet privacy protection plays a major role to boost the growth of e-commerce. E-commerce industry is slowly addressing security issues on their internal networks. But security protection for the consumers is still in its infancy stage posing a barrier to the development of e-commerce. There is a growing need for a combination of legislation and technical solutions to globally secure customer privacy. The U.S Federal Trade Commission has identified the need for defining privacy policies to address consumer data security. A technology solution using biometric technique is proposed for preventing identity theft and false authentication in the course of e-commerce transactions. This research proposes a Web-based architecture that uses the encrypted iris patterns as a biometric attribute for authentication of a customer for e-commerce transactions, because iris patterns are unique to an individual.