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UK to join European fingerprint database

...opted in to the Eurodac fingerprint database, which collects the fingerprints of asylum seekers and some illegal entrants to the European Union. Immigration minister Damian... Read more

13 January, 2011 by Kable

Europe pushes ahead with unified database agency

...for 'European Dactyloscopy' — is an automated fingerprint identification system used to identify asylum seekers and irregular border crossers. The European Commission first proposed a unified... Read more

13 June, 2011 by David Meyer

Government to save £50m in revised biometrics deal

...of 2011 to support the checking of biometric visas, registration cards for asylum seekers and biometric residence permits. It will replace a system which was... Read more

13 September, 2010 by Kable
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Elim Pentecostal Church in Huddersfield 1.1.2

...of society. Through our work in the community we minister to refugees, asylum seekers and those with drug and alcohol problems. Our desire to see... Read more

12 May, 2012

Biometrics to catch 'fake' asylum seekers

...is set to use digital images and facial recognition technology when screening asylum seekers in the UK in an attempt to further clamp down on... Read more

23 May, 2003 by Andy McCue

Asylum seekers get UK's first biometric ID cards

Asylum seekers in Croydon have become the first people in Britain to be... Read more

4 February, 2002 by Wendy McAuliffe

UK to share fingerprints with Canada, Australia

...The agreement, announced on Friday, covers the reciprocal exchange of fingerprints of asylum seekers and foreign criminals in each country. The US and New Zealand... Read more

21 August, 2009 by Adrian Bridgwater

The Blair IT projects

...had created. Finally, in the run-up to a general election where asylum seekers were a hot topic, the government gave up and quietly ditched... Read more

27 June, 2007 by David Meyer

Government ditches ID database plans

...are enrolled in the scheme. Existing biometric storage systems currently used for asylum seekers will be used for the NIR in the short term. For... Read more

20 December, 2006 by Steve Ranger

Don't let up in ID card battle

...on a card because it would prevent cigarette sales to underage terrorist asylum seekers. Where are our legal safeguards against official abuse? Where is the... Read more

20 October, 2005 by Leader

Biometric tech gets small town trial

...applications in a false identity. It is also used to return failed asylum seekers back to Sri Lanka who have destroyed their documents, by confirming... Read more

28 August, 2003 by Andy McCue

Q&A: E-commerce minister on broadband rollout

Part I: Stephen Timms MP tells ZDNet UK what he thinks of government subsidies for broadband, and the idea of classifying broadband as a 'universal service' Read more

24 June, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...where better to do another experiment into Big Brotherhood among the dispossessed. Asylum seekers there have been issued with a biometric card containing the bearer... Read more

8 February, 2002

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...where better to do another experiment into Big Brotherhood among the dispossessed. Asylum seekers there have been issued with a biometric card containing the bearer... Read more

8 February, 2002 by Rupert Goodwins

Airport security technology under scrutiny

High-tech systems like face recognition or fingerprint scanning may become part of the airport security of the future Read more

13 September, 2001 by Rachel Konrad

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