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Biometric Technologies: Security, Legal, And Policy Implications
White Papers Biometric technologies - such as iris recognition, hand geometry, finger recognition, facial recognition, and voice recognition - have substantial potential to improve national security by providing a means to identify and verify people in many...
[October 27, 2006, 0:00]
City Airport Deploys Biometric Security
News London City Airport is to become the first airport in Europe to deploy terminal-wide biometric security measures for all employees. The deployment marks the completion of stage one of the airport's plans for biometric security.
[May 7, 2003, 16:13]
Home Office Agency Buys Biometric Security
News The Home Office's Security Industry Authority (SIA) has announced a deal with ISL Biometrics to install biometric technology for network access. The SIA is a newly formed organisation that regulates and licenses the private security industry and...
[April 16, 2004, 8:35]
A Biometric Identification System Ensures Airtight Security And Expedites Travel At Ben Gurion Airport (BGA)
White Papers This document highlights the biometric identification system at Ben Gurion Airport (BGA). EDS implemented an innovative biometric solution that automated the processing of low-risk travelers and freed up resources that could be directed toward high...
[September 15, 2003, 0:00]
Roles For The National Institute Of Standards And Technology (NIST) In Accelerating The Development Of Critical Biometric Consensus Standards For US Homeland Security And The Prevention Of ID Theft
White Papers NIST has worked in close partnership with other U.S.government agencies and industry to establish formal standards groups for biometric standards development. These groups are actively working on accelerating the development of national and...
[January 16, 2005, 23:00]
Biometric Speech Verification: Added Security For Your Speech Application
White Papers Using Speaker Verification, you can confirm the identity of the person speaking based on that person's voice biometric. MCI provides the infrastructure and expertise needed to implement Speaker Verification with the flexibility to support a wide...
[October 26, 2006, 0:00]
Nuggets: Biometric Security Gets Personal
News But most of the fuss around this form of security was aimed at businesses worried about securing their corporate networks. It works in tandem with the company's Confirma data security software package, which includes imaging algorithms and "extract...
[November 26, 1999, 13:45]
Biometric Systems: The Next Big Security Opportunity
White Papers There is a rapidly growing realization that the low-cost security measures of the past are not adequate protection against a determined and clever terrorist assault. It is relatively easy for a thief to steal or acquire a company identity card...
[November 5, 2004, 23:00]
Customers 'want Biometrics'
News One in three banking customers is ready to embrace biometric technologies in the hope of adding greater security to their finances. Card cloning, PIN theft by shoulder surfing and high-profile phishing attacks are all undermining consumer...
[May 9, 2005, 10:20]
Frequent Fliers: The Biometric Guinea Pigs
News In addition to passwords and biometric inspection, they're requiring employees to use computers or other hardware that is directly connected to a central security system -- so that if they report a computer or cell phone as stolen, a security...
[March 27, 2002, 14:33]
Biometrics Touted As Key To Stress-free Flights
News By 2015, biometric technology will make getting on a plane almost as easy as getting on the Tube or train today, according to a leading border security expert. Automated biometric systems will eventually replace the often laborious system of...
[February 22, 2008, 7:58]
Comdex '99: Get Ready For The Biometric Mouse!
News Biometric security -- fingerprint-reading keypads, retina-scanning lasers and the like -- may finally be ready for the enterprise. I was so pleased to find the biggest market research firms making comments that, after Y2K, the biggest IT push is...
[November 15, 1999, 10:14]
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 manual check before going through security is then replaced by an automatic barrier activated by...
[June 21, 2007, 12:12]
Adopting Biometrics? Then Keep Your Hands Dirty
News A Gartner analyst at the company's IT security conference in London on Monday raised an unusual problem with some biometric applications. Overall Allan expressed caution over making too big an initial investment into biometric security kit.
[September 21, 2004, 16:55]
Biometric Policies Need To Secure Privacy
Talkback As more legislation is enacted around the world that mandates the use of biometric data and as commercial use of biometrics increases, the market for biometric information security and assurance will increase greatly.
[November 10, 2006, 9:34]
EC Plans Biometric Border Checks
News Visitors to Europe will face biometric screening and automated security checks under proposals for a shake-up of EU border controls. Biometric data would be submitted by travellers from outside the EU when applying for a visa, while those not...
[February 15, 2008, 7:20]
Positive Identification And Access Control
White Papers Working closely with the Chilean Immigration Police, Unisys is assisting with a biometric security solution that addresses forgery problems with travel documents and movement of criminals across borders all the while speeding up airport queues.
[June 2, 2007, 0:00]
Banks Look At Face Recognition For ATMs
News Biometric-enabled ATMs could be doling out cash to Australian bank customers within a year, following the launch of a technology that promises to reduce the cost of converting existing ATM security infrastructure.
[October 10, 2001, 10:27]
Biometrics Land At Gatwick
News Gatwick airport is the latest UK airport to trial biometric fingerprinting technology to boost immigration security. At present only arrivals from Sierra Leone who have been issued with biometric visas in the country's capital, Freetown, will be...
[October 10, 2007, 8:30]
Hiding Biometric Data
White Papers The fact that biometric data is not replaceable and is not secret, combined with the existence of several types of attacks that are possible in a biometric system, make the issue of security/integrity of biometric data extremely critical.
[December 9, 2006, 23:00]
