Bank eyes up iris scan ATMs
News The US bank is using iris-scan technology that matches up a customer's eye pattern with an image stored on bank's computers. Once the scan is verified, a process that takes about two seconds, the customer is given access to his account.
[May 14, 1999, 16:06]
Photos: Biometrics up close and personal
Talkback For ID cards to be useful they need to match your iris scan with one on the proposed UK National Identity database (say 30 million people) at least when the card is initially issued (or you could be fraudulently applying for multiple cards).
[March 28, 2006, 9:59]
Medical fears may hamper acceptance of biometrics
Talkback But a hacker can install a program that intercepts a scan and later fakes the iris scan and get access. You can plug an iris scanner into your computer get access to online services. If you were using a password then you can change that, but your...
[November 3, 2003, 7:19]
Biometric checks get air-passenger approval
News A more advanced miSense screening collected 10 fingerprint scans, two iris scans and a facial image scan during a manual enrolment. Fingerprint and iris scans were used for screening more than 3,000 passengers who volunteered to take part in the...
[June 21, 2007, 12:12]
Full biometric ID scheme to reach the UK 'by 2009'
Talkback The article seems to imply that the US requirements are a justification for fingerprint and Iris scan data to be taken and held on government databases - in fact the US requirement is simply for machine readable passports with digital photo data...
[October 25, 2005, 16:39]
Coersion vs. Corruption
Talkback I think we need to finger print and iris scan every man woman and child in the country and come ballot day, line them all up on pain of 5 years in clink, take their scans, make them vote and then lock them up for the rest of the day just to make...
[February 2, 2007, 12:18]
Biometrics - conserns and answers
Blog I am also not going to talk about iris scan and retina scan. 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, face and palm...
[December 14, 2008, 9:03]
Experts eye biometric issues
News Many biometric iris readers are unable to scan people with no irises or eye injuries. Angela Sasse, professor of human-centred technology at University College London, warned that biometric technology is underdeveloped to such an extent that iris...
[December 14, 2004, 13:20]
Biometrics to speed travel between UK and US
News The government said the deal will build on the success of the Iris scheme (Iris Recognition Immigration System) for trusted travellers, which enables registered passengers to enter the UK without queuing, following an eye scan.
[July 4, 2008, 9:23]
Scaling your security strategy
News Something you are (biometric identifiers such as a fingerprint, retinal scan or iris scan) The basis of controlling access is to be able to verify the identities of those authorised users; otherwise any intruder can pretend to be chief executive...
[August 11, 2005, 13:05]
ID-cards scheme will 'drown' in mismatches
News Daugman, an expert on iris recognition, said fingerprints and facial photos are not distinctive enough for telling the UK's 45-million-strong adult population apart. The government was badly advised by its internal scientists in the Home Office...
[September 29, 2008, 8:16]
Compulsory ID card scheme on course for Parliament
News The ID card will contain a piece of biometric information, most likely an iris or fingerprint scan, and will be combined with passports and driving licences, which will have a biometric element by 2008, according to the draft Bill.
[November 27, 2003, 9:10]
EU calls for biometric passport delay
News The UK biometric passports will have a chip with a digital image of the holder while the versions from other EU countries will also carry a fingerprint or iris scan. The European Union (EU) has called on the US to delay the deadline for the...
[April 1, 2005, 17:00]
ID cards unveiled in Queen's Speech
News The ID card scheme proposed by the Home Office will see the introduction of a standalone ID card containing biometric information such as iris scans, fingerprints and a facial scan by 2008. Legislation for national ID cards and the UK's version of...
[November 23, 2004, 14:40]
Biometrics: Where is the business case?
News Dr John Daugman from Cambridge University, who developed the first identification system that can scan and recognise the iris, agreed that open standards were crucial to the development and adoption of the technology.
[October 19, 2005, 17:15]
Gates predicts death of the password
News Jancke said the system could also be used to store fingerprints or an eye scan: "This system is also extensible, so we can include other biometric information, such as iris or fingerprint. During his keynote speech at the RSA Security conference in...
[February 25, 2004, 7:20]
Fitting passports with biometric data
News In the resolution, ICAO endorsed facial recognition as the biometric identification technology of choice, with fingerprints and iris scans as optional, supplemental forms of biometric identification. The UK Passport Office recently announced that...
[August 18, 2004, 15:45]
absolute waste of money
Member Review My verdict: donate the money to charity, don't give to the geniuses at IRIS. You have to take your laptop with it always if you are planning to scan a newspaper article on the go, because this thing doesn't have an inbuilt memory.
[January 13, 2009, 8:53]
Photos: Biometrics up close and personal
News The error rate of iris recognition is 0.001 percent, or 1 in 100,000 people with false positive or negative results, according to Bataller. RFID tags can be embedded in passports to enable officials to scan passports from a distance.
[March 27, 2006, 17:40]
Fujitsu's biometric scanner reads palms
News It works using infrared light to scan for haemoglobin, which provides oxygen to cells in the body. Cross Fujitsu's palm with silver and you'll get a biometric scanner - pictured in our CeBIT 2005 gallery - that identifies people by looking at the...
[March 11, 2005, 13:10]
