Australia launches biometric passport checking
News The Australian Customs Service (ACS) will next week launch its biometric passport checking system "publicly," drastically shortening its trial period and before concerns about how to apply it to all Australians have been resolved.
[January 23, 2003, 8:26]
Biometric checks get air-passenger approval
News Air travellers have backed biometric security checks after a four-month trial of the passenger-screening technology at London's Heathrow airport. The report into the miSense trial said: "The advancement of technology has meant that biometric...
[June 21, 2007, 12:12]
Biometrics touted as key to stress-free flights
News Automated biometric systems will eventually replace the often laborious system of repeated manual passport and security checks that plague fliers today, said Matthew Finn, director of government and security for airline industry IT body Sita.
[February 22, 2008, 7:58]
British life 'unthinkable' without ID cards
News The minister also highlighted evidence of a growing risk in ID fraud in the UK discovered through the government's biometric visa project. Byrne outlined several trials, including a joint Identity and Passport Service/Criminal Records Bureau pilot...
[June 20, 2007, 8:53]
Police can't read data on UK's ID cards
News Currently no police stations, border-entry points or job centres have readers for the card's biometric chip, the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) revealed in response to an FoI (Freedom of Information) request by ZDNet UK's sister site, silicon...
[February 5, 2009, 11:30]
ID card critic trashes government report
News The LSE team also argued that, while the Government claims 70 percent of the £5.4bn would have to be spent anyway in complying with biometric passport requirements in the Schengen area, it "fails to point out that the UK is not subject to these...
[October 10, 2006, 16:10]
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]
