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Biometrics: Where is the business case?
News Speaking at the Biometrics 2005 conference in London, Dr Jim Wayman, director of the Biometric Test Centre at San Jose University, warned that the market for biological based identity recognition would not take off until suppliers began to clearly...
[October 19, 2005, 17:15]
Biometrics plug into Windows
News AuthenTec will create a reference driver that will be the example for other biometric hardware makers to follow in designing their own driver software. Fingerprint, facial-feature, retina and handprint recognition are all common forms of biometric...
[April 29, 2003, 10:55]
Experts call for global biometrics agency
News Julian Ashbourn, chairman of the International Biometric Foundation, said an 'equivalence of process' would mean that travellers would experience the same types of procedures when entering different countries.
[October 21, 2005, 14:20]
Experts question high-street ID card enrolment
News The Home Office announced on Wednesday that organisations, including the Post Office and the National Pharmacy Association, were in talks to collect and transmit biometric information for ID card enrolment.
[May 7, 2009, 16:54]
High-street plan for ID card enrolment
News Under the plans, customers will be able to use the high-street outlets to scan their fingerprints and facial photographs that will be stored on microchips in the cards or biometric visas and the central National Identity Register database.
[May 6, 2009, 16:07]
Home Office cuts estimated cost of ID-cards scheme
News Jacqui Smith said the cost of the application and enrolment contract is now estimated at between £350m and £450m, while the National Biometric Identity Service will cost between £200m and £250m, and the figure for the design and production of the...
[November 25, 2008, 10:20]
IBM's ID card contract to last seven years
News In April, IBM was awarded the contract to administer the National Biometric Identity Service (NBIS) database, which will hold identifying information such as facial images and fingerprints. The NBIS is used for biometric passports and for the...
[July 10, 2009, 17:56]
Government ditches ID database plans
News The National Identity Register (NIR) was to be the giant database at the heart of the project, holding personal identity information and biometric data for everyone enrolled in the scheme. The government's action plan for the ID cards project...
[December 20, 2006, 7:22]
IBM, CSC win ID card biometrics contracts
News On Tuesday, the Home Office announced that IBM had won a £265m contract to build and run the UK Border Agency (UKBA) database of fingerprints and facial images taken for passports and visa applications, called the National Biometric Identity...
[April 7, 2009, 16:30]
Japanese group wants more human faces scanned
News According to a statement from Hitachi, one of the members of the newly-formed Biometrics Security Consortium (BSC), there was a need for common goals and standards in order to help the market for biometric products grow.
[June 24, 2003, 14:39]
Passwords are facing redundancy, says Gates
Talkback As for that extra technology being biometric in nature, would that mean that I'd need to (say) have my DNA rewritten if someone stole my biometric details? Isn't a PIN number a password, though? Albeit a more limited form of one.
[November 16, 2004, 12:14]
Accenture and Sun aim to widen security scope
News Coming in the same week as debate over the government's counter-terrorism bill, an official statement from both companies says the newly announced system uses both biometric and smartcard technologies for identity establishment.
[April 2, 2008, 16:39]
Government whittles down ID scheme suppliers
News IBM and Thales are through to the next round of discussions for a £500m contract to deliver the National Biometric Identity Service programme to replace the existing passport-photo database with a new system able to store photos and fingerprints.
[September 17, 2008, 7:49]
ID card scheme under review
News The Home Office confirmed on Tuesday that the ID card project, which will involve a massive database of personal and biometric data, will be included in this review. Opponents of the ID card scheme argue that it will be extremely difficult and...
[July 11, 2006, 15:50]
Don't let up in ID card battle
Leader We now know that everyone except the Government and the biometric industry is against the idea. Where is the biometric technology that will work for sixty million individuals? The pictures of Charles Clarke holding his own ID card highlight the...
[October 20, 2005, 14:35]
Police to get mobile fingerprint scanners
News The project will initially allow each force to ID suspects on the move by providing mobile access to the 7.5 million fingerprint scans held on the police's Ident1 biometric database. Midas will deliver a fully national biometric solution for the UK...
[October 23, 2008, 9:39]
Fingerprint reader can help navigation
News It is an inexpensive approach for a device manufacturer who wants to include" security using a biometric, unique signature created from physical human characteristics such as a fingerprint or a voiceprint.
[May 6, 2003, 8:56]
ID cards to be compulsory for air workers
News The move comes despite repeated assurances from the Home Office that UK citizens will not be compelled to have an ID card or enter their biometric details onto the National Identity Register. Gooding said UK airports already had compulsory...
[November 6, 2008, 16:37]
Do you need biometics devices?
Talkback If you ask me “what do I want to get with any biometric device that I purchase? I want biometric device to fill my passwords instead of me. What features are you looking for in biometric devices? When saying “biometrics” I am not thinking about law...
[July 4, 2008, 12:37]
Home Office expands scope of compulsory ID cards
News Until now, only students and foreign nationals applying to stay in the UK on the basis of marriage have been obliged to have the biometric cards. The spokesperson added that the biometric and personal details would be stored on the UK Borders...
[February 12, 2009, 16:32]
