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Biometrics Speeds Up Visa-processing By Days
News The system speeds up the process by checking a visa applicant's ID and biometrics against a database held in the UK. He said the system, provided by PA Consulting Group and Software AG, was far more efficient than relying on manually checking...
[March 6, 2008, 8:00]
Biometrics: For Your Eyes Only
News Aaron Parker, spokesperson for Biodata Information Tehcnology AP, a company that produces its own biometric solution based on multiple low-cost inputs, is highly optimistic about biometrics and certain that the technology will be used broadly in...
[October 24, 2001, 10:38]
Biometrics As A National Security Provider
Talkback Subject: Biometrics as a national security provider I strongly feel that reputed Biometric experts should be authorized by the government to provide exclusive biometrics and be provided with adequate facilities for continuous research for the...
[January 8, 2007, 4:38]
Biometrics Council Wants To Fill Standards Gap
News Biometrics experts from industry and government have banded together to form an organisation to tackle some of the serious standards issues that could delay widespread deployment of the technology. The main aim of IBAC is to remove the ambiguity...
[November 15, 2005, 17:35]
Biometrics: A Grand Challenge
White Papers This paper explores the fundamental roadblocks for widespread adoption of biometrics as a means of automatic person identification: effective and efficient pattern recognition; ensuring system integrity, system application integrity and return on...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Biometrics - The Broader Issue
Talkback Centralised databases of Biometrics will degrade our security. There have recently been cases of tax fraud deriving from mass theft of civil servants' personal details from government computers : how can anyone say such information will be secure...
[November 14, 2006, 10:03]
Biometrics: Will Digital Fingerprints, Iris Scans And Speaker Recognition Soon Replace Passwords And Personal Identification Numbers?
White Papers Biometrics is a high tech word for an old concept: how they go about recognizing one another. Examples of biometrics include iris and retina scanning, digitized fingerprints, hand geometry and speaker recognition.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Biometrics: Where Is The Business Case?
News IT vendors need to provide clear examples of why and how biometrics can benefit businesses if the technology is to become more widely adopted according to industry experts. Speaking at the Biometrics 2005 conference in London, Dr Jim Wayman...
[October 19, 2005, 17:15]
Biometrics Technology
White Papers Biometrics technology may be an option for any organization that uses physical cards, documents, passwords, or identification numbers to secure data stored in electronic format on a computer or Automated Teller Machine (ATM).
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Biometrics Touted As Key To Stress-free Flights
News Automated gates would first confirm an individual's identity using biometrics before checking their biographic data for any updates in their security/legal/journey status against various databases. By 2015 the majority of people arriving in and...
[February 22, 2008, 7:58]
Biometrics Meets Security At Comdex
News Biometrics and security came together at Comdex Chicago 2002 on Wednesday. Representatives from the airline and biometrics industries met for day-long discussions about working together to develop measures that could help prevent tragedies such as...
[March 7, 2002, 10:36]
Biometrics - Technologies For Highly Secure Personal Authentication
White Papers As the biometrics are automated methods of identifying a person or verifying the identity of a person based on a physiological or behavioral characteristic. This paper focuses on biometric technologies which are becoming the foundation of an...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Biometrics And The Future Of Money
White Papers Biometrics have finally arrived as a viable identification technology for the mass market. However, this legal framework should not be so restrictive as to curtail the development, research and implementation of biometrics.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Biometrics Beyond Borders
News Biometrics have been widely touted as the next step in the evolution of identification and authentication systems. The reliability of the technology has also created cause for concern, fingerprint and iris recognition technology have significant...
[October 25, 2005, 10:50]
Biometrics: Who's Watching You
White Papers Among the many reactions to the September 11 tragedy has been a renewed attention to biometrics. Other proposals include the use of biometrics with ID cards and in airports, e.g.video surveillance enhanced by facial-recognition technology.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Police Hope Biometrics Will Provide Arresting Results
News The Police IT Organisation (PITO) has outlined plans to greatly increase its use of biometrics over the next five years to help it identify suspects more easily and accurately. Speaking at the Biometrics 2005 conference in London, Fred Preston...
[October 21, 2005, 16:55]
Biometrics Land At Gatwick
News Byrne added biometrics are part of a triple ring of security for the UK's borders, which involves identifying individuals before they travel to the UK, checking them on the border and rolling out ID cards for foreign nationals in the UK from 2008.
[October 10, 2007, 8:30]
Oracle And Biometrics
White Papers The Oracle 10g, product family now offers an identity management framework that integrates biometrics, PKI, smartcards and complementary technologies into a cohesive security solution. The biometric measurement process is automated.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Biometrics - Conserns And Answers
Blog Let’s talk about biometrics that works in real world conditions - fingerprint. First, I would like to distinguish biometric technologies that do not work or must not work. I mean both behavioral (keystroke dynamics, handwriting) and physical (voice...
[July 17, 2008, 14:18]
Home Office Takes Biometrics On The Road
Talkback There's a problem with biometrics. It seems it doesn't work that well for everyone. Especially the very young, the very old and those that have the smarts and means to avoid it becoming a problem for them (which seems to be the desired target...
[September 15, 2005, 20:24]
