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Singapore mulls biometric data in passports
News However, in the light of tighter of security policies after the 11 September terrorist attacks, US authorities have set an October 2004 deadline for Singapore to equip its passports with biometric identifiers.
[July 29, 2003, 9:38]
EU passports get biometric data
Talkback A chip in our head that could be trace our movements from space? So instead of growing as a species we are recessing again in the dark-age era, aren't we? Are we going mad ? So BIG BROTHER is watching you is becoming a fact!
[December 17, 2003, 8:27]
Biometric passports win EU approval
News The first biometric passports are set to arrive in 18 months and initially will record the facial characteristics of the bearer. Ministers for European Union member states agreed on Tuesday to adopt biometric passports.
[October 28, 2004, 9:34]
EU passports get biometric data
News The move comes after the US introduced strict new laws that demand biometric data is contained in passports of visitors from countries that generally do not require a visa to travel to the US, which includes the UK and most other EU countries.
[July 18, 2003, 15:27]
Passport fee rise linked to ID cards
News The UK's biometric ID card scheme will cost the government £500m a year by 2008, leading to the price of new passports more than doubling to £85. The project, which is being run by the Government Printing Office (GPO), will make US passports...
[November 3, 2004, 14:48]
Europe speeds up electronic ID plans
News Additionally, a new EU passport containing biometric data about its holder has been pencilled in for introduction in 2005, a few months after the US makes biometric passports for non visa-holders compulsory.
[October 23, 2003, 15:40]
Fitting passports with biometric data
News A number of countries are about to launch trials of passports and visas that incorporate basic biometric information about the document holder alongside the traditional photo and passport number -- data such as a digital image of the citizen's...
[August 18, 2004, 15:45]
Biometrics beyond borders
News The events that precipitated much of the current interest in biometrics being enlisted to protect national borders can be traced back to 2002 when the legislation requiring biometric passports to be introduced October 2005 entered the US statute...
[October 25, 2005, 10:50]
Australia launches biometric passport checking
News Passports Australia spokesperson, Bob Nash, said the team tasked with coming up with a method of incorporating the biometric data into Australian passports is facing a hefty dilemma. According to a Qantas gazette, the system has checked over 6,000...
[January 23, 2003, 8:26]
MP: ID card scheme is 'doomed to failure'
News This is because it builds on the existing introduction of biometric passports and biometric immigration documents, and there are no plans to include iris recognition in passports. At this stage, it's not clear which biometric data will be used by...
[January 15, 2007, 12:36]
Tories plan to scrap National Identity Register
News We might be in a position in which, in order to allow people to travel to the US, we need to process biometric data and to pursue the introduction of biometric passports," he said. Clearly, data collection will be necessary for biometric passports.
[July 13, 2009, 11:55]
Home Office denies e-passports can be faked
News The Home Office refers to the e-passport as a "biometric passport", although UK passports have carried photographs — the only biometric used so far — for nearly a century. The UK introduced e-passports with microchips in 2006 in response to...
[August 7, 2008, 9:00]
US urges EU to lead the way in biometric IDs
News Despite plans already on the table in the EU to include biometrics in visas and residence permits, the US is keen to see biometric elements introduced into passports, including fingerprint or facial recognition data.
[October 30, 2003, 16:00]
Europe inches closer to full e-passport rollout
News Europe has moved closer to the rollout of full biometric passports after key systems were shown to work. The second-generation e-passports, due to be introduced in the UK in 2011/12, will be fitted with a RFID chip containing fingerprint scans and...
[September 23, 2008, 9:22]
Experts call for global biometrics agency
News The EU is going to start using biometric passports, and other countries will follow. Biometric data in the US is collated in decentralised databases. Common processes would make it easier for different countries deploying similar biometric systems...
[October 21, 2005, 14:20]
Photos: Biometrics up close and personal
News Accenture's biometric capture technology is designed to be used in enrollment centres for biometric e-passports and identity cards, according to Accenture biometrics specialist, Cyrill Bataller. RFID tags can be embedded in passports to enable...
[March 27, 2006, 17:40]
IBM, CSC win ID card biometrics contracts
News This will include putting in place different processing systems, and the means for people to apply for biometric passports online. On Tuesday, the Home Office announced that IBM had won a £265m contract to build and run the UK Border Agency (UKBA...
[April 7, 2009, 16:30]
10,000 volunteers to trial ID cards
News The volunteers will carry their own card with their personal data stored on it and the results of the trial are intended to set the stage for the introduction of mandatory identity cards, as well as help the government in its roll-out of biometric...
[December 5, 2003, 14:35]
Biometrics touted as key to stress-free flights
News Finn said that future security systems will rely on e-passports, ID, smart cards or visas that would contain biometric data — such as fingerprints and iris scans — and biographical data, ranging from name and address to job and marital status.
[February 22, 2008, 7:58]
Full biometric ID scheme to reach the UK 'by 2009'
News The long awaited passports will include a microchip which holds a digitised facial image with space to hold a further biometric if required by UK policy or EU directive. E-passports will incorporate a special chip that stores basic data, including...
[October 20, 2005, 17:40]
