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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]
Biometric checks launched for all UK visa applicants
News All applicants for visas to enter the UK will face biometric fingerprint checks from the end of this month. The fingerprint database contains the records of more than one million previous visa applicants.
[January 15, 2008, 7:18]
Biometric devices. Do you need one?
Blog I can tell you what do I seek in biometric devices: I want biometric device to fill my passwords instead of me. What features are you expecting to get with biometric devices? When saying “biometrics” I am not thinking about law enforcement, AFIS...
[July 4, 2008, 22:12]
Biometric devices. Do you need one?
Blog Comment As I am actively a graduate student of software engineering, I have conducted significant research in the area of biometric technologies. In essence biometric devices should act to increase security while also alleviating the time/work correlation...
[July 11, 2008, 16:40]
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]
Biometric tech gets small town trial
News A trial of the biometric technology to be used from 2006 in the UK's next-generation "passport cards" is to begin later this year in an unnamed small town. In line with Civil Aviation Authority rules, the Passport Service must have biometric chips...
[August 28, 2003, 9:50]
Dataquest Predicts: Biometric chips pioneer growth
News Excited by the prospects for chip technology in Biometric devices, Bauer also highlights communications, smart cards and the car industry as sources for increased chip production. Biometric-enabled chips are already being incorporated into...
[June 7, 1999, 12:30]
Biometric trials point to passport fraud
News The Australian federal government is poised to crack down hard on identity fraud amid indications that trials of biometric technology are already unveiling instances of individuals illegally securing multiple passports.
[September 18, 2002, 9:20]
Biometric passports win EU approval
News Ministers for European Union member states agreed on Tuesday to adopt biometric passports. The first biometric passports are set to arrive in 18 months and initially will record the facial characteristics of the bearer.
[October 28, 2004, 9:34]
Mobile Biometric Identification
White Papers Adding a wireless dimension to Biometric Identification Systems (BIS) provides a more efficient and reliable method of identity management across criminal justice and civil markets. Yet deploying cost-effective portable devices with the ability to...
[August 15, 2009, 1:20]
Reason why biometric ID cards should not be implemented at ANY COST
Talkback Biometric documents (ID cards and passports) will work fine for organisations where everyone concerned is on the database and every point of transaction has equipment to read these biometric documents.
[June 29, 2007, 12:01]
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, 3:47]
Online Testing Service Adds Biometric Identification
White Papers For the next-generation release of Webassessor, KRYTERION looked for the best-of-breed biometric authentication system in order to help validate the identification of the person taking the test. KRYTERION's core testing technology, Webassessor...
[January 9, 2009, 0:00]
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. Although biometric vendors showing their wares at Comdex in Las Vegas showed most of the same technologies last year...
[November 15, 1999, 10:14]
Scientists pore over biometric-spoofing tests
Talkback In general, any type of multi-biometric authentication can reduce the possibility of fraud, which is why you're seeing so many finger-face combinations these days. For example, in a two-biometric system using 1:n searches, do you compare the search...
[December 31, 2005, 21:45]
Biometric USB drive scans fingerprints
News Memory Experts is to launch a 2GB biometric USB flash drive in the UK next month, featuring a fingerprint scanner that can be used to control both access to documents stored inside the device and to a corporate network, the company said this week.
[February 20, 2004, 15:00]
NEC hands the office keys to a biometric smartcard
News NEC has launched a biometric smartcard security system that combines the technologies needed to authorise a user's physical access to corporate buildings with their network and application access. At the Compsec 2003 conference in London on...
[October 30, 2003, 16:15]
Do we need a biometric passport?
Blog A couple of days ago, Israel approved the bill for creation of biometric database of all Israeli citizens. Israeli government is going to start issuing biometric "fake-proof" electronic passports. The tests also raise serious questions about the...
[August 6, 2008, 16:02]
Microsoft launches biometric access peripherals
Talkback Firefox remembers all my passwords, I think I'll wait until this biometric feature becomes a security feature, when transferring my details wirelessly is encrypted etc. It's good to see Biometrics creeping in, I fully expect them to be an option...
[March 11, 2005, 19:52]
UK police upgrade biometric identification tech
News The Police IT Organisation (PITO) has teamed with Northrop Grumman in an eight-year, £122m deal to create next-generation biometric identification technology for UK police. Under the contract, Northrop Grumman's information technology sector will...
[December 15, 2004, 15:30]
