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Development of Electronic Passport Scheme for Cryptographic Security and Face, Fingerprint Biometrics Using ASP.Net

Development of Electronic Passport Scheme for Cryptographic Security and Face, Fingerprint Biometrics Using ASP.Net

Biometric passports is to prevent the illegal entry of traveler into a specific... Read more

1 February, 2012

UK airports to drop £9.1m eye-scanning tech

...will be eventually replaced by facial-recognition electronic gates (e-gates) and biometric passports, a spokesman for the agency said on Friday. The self-service... Read more

17 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

UK passport gets a redesign to fight fraudsters

...put on hold the Labour government's plans to introduce second generation biometric passports from 2012, where the embedded microchip would also store scans of... Read more

25 August, 2010 by Nick Heath

Labour spending for ID cards totals near £300m

...service, which spent another "£251m on projects to establish identity cards, second biometric passports and other related programmes". Home Secretary Theresa May said last week... Read more

23 June, 2010 by Kable

Government plans new biometric passport rollout

...Theresa May has said the government is planning to begin issuing new biometric passports in the autumn. She said it is looking at providing better... Read more

11 June, 2010 by Kable

ID cards: Why they were destined to fail

...it should be noted also included the cost of providing and issuing biometric passports. The government said that the majority of the project would be... Read more

8 June, 2010 by Nick Heath

ID cards, identity register abolished within 100 days

...be destroyed within a month of royal assent. The next generation of biometric passports is also due to be cancelled. They were due to include... Read more

28 May, 2010 by Kable

Gov't told: Cut IT projects and save public cash

...to reach £175m by 2018-19, do not include the costs of biometric passports, nor costs common to biometric passports and ID cards, the saving... Read more

15 September, 2009 by Kable

Passport fee rise linked to ID cards

The cost of new UK passports is set to double to take into account the cost of compulsory biometric ID cards Read more

3 November, 2004 by Andy McCue

Biometric passports win EU approval

Ministers for European Union member states agreed on Tuesday to adopt biometric passports. The first biometric passports are set to arrive in 18 months... Read more

28 October, 2004 by Lars Pasveer

...Uncloneable' biometric passports pass the test

Take that, skimmers Europe has moved closer to the rollout of full biometric passports after key systems were shown to work. The UK was one... Read more

22 September, 2008 by Nick Heath

Biometric passports take off

...PS newsletter today! The agency also pointed out that the switchover to biometric passports means the UK has beaten the US Visa Waiver deadline, so... Read more

5 October, 2006 by Steve Ranger

First biometric passports issued to diplomats

'Ambassador, with these trial passports you are really spoiling us... ' Read more

8 November, 2005 by Steve Ranger

Cameron and Clegg to renew 'eroded' civil liberties

...abolished, as previously stated in both parties' manifestos. The next generation of biometric passports incorporating fingerprints will also be scrapped, something only the Lib Dems... Read more

13 May, 2010 by Kable

End to biometric passport scheme would 'axe jobs'

...the party would scrap both identity cards and the next generation of biometric passports, which will add fingerprints to the photos already stored on chips... Read more

26 April, 2010 by Kable

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