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Asylum Seekers Get UK's First Biometric ID Cards
News Asylum seekers in Croydon have become the first people in Britain to be issued with high-tech biometric cards by the Home Office. By introducing the card, the government is at the forefront of making the most of up-to-date technology to combat...
[February 4, 2002, 17:26]
Refugees, Asylum Seekers And The New Department Of Homeland Security: Initial Concerns And Preliminary Recommendations
White Papers There is no stated objective of ensuring that the U.S.lives up to its obligations to refugees and asylum seekers - obligations that stem from both U.S.law and international conventions - as well as its tradition of welcoming those fleeing...
[January 21, 2005, 2:00]
Biometrics To Catch 'fake' Asylum Seekers
News The government 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 fraudulent applications. The move coincides with government statistics this week that...
[May 23, 2003, 15:52]
The Inmates Are Running The Asylum
Member Review New technology is great, but why does it have to be so user-hostile? In this book, Alan Cooper examines the business and technical cultures that create such impenetrable products, and offers a remedy.
[November 22, 2004, 12:35]
Biometric Tech Gets Small Town Trial
News Separately, the government announced plans to extend a biometric scheme for people applying for visas to the UK to tackle immigration and asylum abuse. This is then used to identify the "significant number" of Sri Lankans who the government claims...
[August 28, 2003, 9:50]
The Blair IT Projects
News Finally, in the run-up to a general election where asylum seekers were a hot topic, the government gave up and quietly ditched the £77m system. The document-management system, which was supposed to deal with asylum claims, was repeatedly delayed.
[June 27, 2007, 12:08]
Are ID Cards A Game Of Blind Man's Bluff?
Talkback I have been instrumental in the homeoffice implementing the ARC asylum seekers fingerprint smart card. The card is a huge success, althogh the id card will be on a larger scale I don't see it causing too many problems to implement.
[November 19, 2003, 5:52]
ID Card Database Plans Expand
Talkback Where can we go to seek political asylum? Fairly trivial expansion to log your vote, books you read, films you watch.
[April 20, 2006, 11:11]
Service Pack 2: Patching The Unpatchable
Talkback I was beginning to think I needed commiting to an asylum. At last! Why is the media not addressing this for the rather serious situation it is? Rupert - thankyou. I'm not what you'ld term a 'newbie'. I learnt it all from the bit and byte, to the...
[July 20, 2004, 12:17]
Devastation Mini-movie Pack
Downloads See the rat drone in action, bash heads in an old insane asylum, and travel war-torn streets. Check out three mini-movies from the Unreal Engine powered shooter. Devastation is a high-action, teamplay-oriented, first person game powered by heavily...
[October 3, 2003, 14:08]
Room With A View
Forum During a visit to the Mental Asylum, a visitor asked the Director what the criteria was which defined whether or not a patient should be institutionalised. Ok, don't shoot me if I actually read this joke on this forum in the first place.
[June 8, 2006, 15:13]
Shadow Man
Downloads Hunt villains in the Louisiana Bayou, New York ghettoes, a Texas prison, the London Underground, and an asylum. Shadow Man is a third-person shooter based on Mike LeRoi, a New Orleans hit man who finds a voodoo mask that transforms him into a super...
[December 1, 1999, 5:44]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Asylum seekers there have been issued with a biometric card containing the bearer's fingerprints, the better to tell who they are on demand. Monday 4/2/2002 Croydon is a joyless place: where better to do another experiment into Big Brotherhood...
[February 8, 2002, 15:58]
F.E.A.R. V1.02 Patch
Downloads This second patch for the first-person shooter upgrades the game from both versions 1.0 or 1.01 and includes a new map, "Asylum," and some minor localization fixes. It also prepares the game for upcoming SDK tools.
[November 2, 2005, 3:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This time, the Great IT System Wooden Spoon goes to Siemens, whose system for handling asylum seeker is being 'rescoped'. Thursday 15/02/2001 Once more, the sky around Whitehall is thick with homecoming pigeons looking forward to a good roost.
[February 19, 2001, 8:25]
Hotmail Complaints Keep Flowing In
Talkback the goverment are robbing the people by taxing them to much, and the police are robbing the motorist and the public by their camara system , sending people enormous fines and generaly upsetting every one this is because they cant afford all the...
[January 31, 2006, 20:33]
Biometric Checks Launched For All UK Visa Applicants
News The system will cover 133 countries, three-quarters of the world's population, and has already uncovered 10,000 visa applicants connected to earlier immigration cases and asylum requests and detected 500 cases of identity swapping.
[January 15, 2008, 7:18]
Microsoft Predicts Vista Stampede
Talkback Much much worse than what you should learn from the inmates are running the asylum" isbn 2688518 Nothing new under the sun. There is no way to compete without the standard words of a stampade of this or that.
[October 2, 2006, 17:24]
NASA Hacker Loses Extradition Fight
Talkback Its interesting to note various verdicts over the past few weeks - Real terrorists, who hyjack planes and come over here from Afganistan, are granted asylum to stay, a guy walks into an essentially open computer system in the US, who is clearly...
[May 11, 2006, 17:32]
Atos Wins Immigration Deal
News It had to process asylum claims on paper in 2001 after shelving a £77m computer system. The Home Office has awarded a £200m IT infrastructure contract to cover the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND), it announced on Tuesday.
[August 11, 2004, 12:25]
