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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. The Bank United of Houston has become the first US bank to offer ATMs that provide access to accounts by scanning the eyes...
[May 14, 1999, 16:06]
Manchester Airport launches staff biometrics
News One of the UK's largest airports has introduced iris scanning to ensure the accurate identification of staff. Trials of iris scanning began four years ago. The Department for Transport's security team, Manchester Airport and biometric identity...
[January 23, 2008, 11:55]
Passport agency: 'Iris recognition needs work'
News Participants in the trial were used to test three biometric devices, including facial-, iris- and fingerprint-scanning technologies. The UKPS said that the trials revealed that much of the current iris scanning technology is not flexible enough to...
[October 20, 2005, 18:05]
Biometrics: for your eyes only
News Siemen's iris-scanning technology creates a digital signature of the user's eye and converts into a 512-byte file using an algorithm. The old saying "the eyes never lie" took on new currency yesterday as Siemens Business Services launched Australia...
[October 24, 2001, 10:38]
Banks look at face recognition for ATMs
News There are already "quite a few installations" of biometric-enabled ATMs in the US and Europe, with fingerprint and iris recognition security measures favoured over the more expensive retina scanning option, according to Chang.
[October 10, 2001, 10:27]
Biometrics: Will Digital Fingerprints, Iris Scans and Speaker Recognition Soon Replace Passwords and Personal Identification Numbers?
White Papers Examples of biometrics include iris and retina scanning, digitized fingerprints, hand geometry and speaker recognition. Biometrics is a high tech word for an old concept: how they go about recognizing one another.
[February 14, 2005, 23:00]
ID cards set back by equipment failure
News Problems with the hardware, software and the capture and recognition of data have forced adjustments to the resolution and focus of the facial-recognition camera, along with modifications to the background used for iris scanning.
[May 6, 2004, 12:25]
Biometrics touted as key to stress-free flights
News Semaphore (which checks UK-bound passenger details against databases of banned individuals and passenger name records to assess risk) and Iris (which lets fliers use automated iris scanning gates at several UK airports) have been used as part of...
[February 22, 2008, 7:58]
Frequent fliers: The biometric guinea pigs
News Some advocates say iris-scanning devices would save frequent fliers so much time that airlines could actually charge a fee -- say, $50 per year -- to customers whose time is extremely valuable. Biometrics is the digital analysis using cameras or...
[March 27, 2002, 14:33]
Airport security technology under scrutiny
News In Swindon, England, some automatic bank tellers use iris scanners to verify customers. Biometrics is the digital analysis of biological characteristics such as facial structure, fingerprints and iris patterns, using cameras or scanners and...
[September 13, 2001, 14:40]
Frankfurt starts scanning flyers' irises
News A test of an iris-scanning system is set to begin on Saturday at Frankfurt airport, as part of a project involving 18 European countries. Airline passengers will be required to stand in front of an identification device whose cameras will...
[February 16, 2004, 9:15]
Government ditches ID database plans
News The government has trimmed back its controversial ID cards plans, ditching a single mega-database to hold all ID card information, and shelving the use of iris-scanning biometrics. Iris scans are now not going to be used following the review of the...
[December 20, 2006, 7:22]
Medical fears may hamper acceptance of biometrics
Talkback You can plug an iris scanner into your computer get access to online services. But a hacker can install a program that intercepts a scan and later fakes the iris scan and get access. If you were using a password then you can change that, but your...
[November 3, 2003, 7:19]
ID cards 'may still fail'
News The government has trimmed back its plans, ditching a single mega-database to hold all ID-card information, and shelving the use of iris-scanning biometrics. The government's ID card rethink is a step towards common sense — but the controversial...
[December 21, 2006, 7:31]
30,000 botnets march across the Internet
News He highlighted the piloting of the trusted-traveller programme - a US two-factor identification scheme that uses iris scanning and smart cards. Former security advisor to the White House Richard Clarke said the number of zombie networked machines...
[November 5, 2004, 14:48]
ID projects to boom and run late
News Due to the limitations of IT used in many ID schemes, suppliers will be called upon to develop alternatives to fingerprint and iris scanning technology. Governments are likely to face "cost overrun and system failure" in setting up new...
[September 29, 2005, 17:55]
ID card-scheme reaches procurement 'milestone'
News The ID-card scheme has seen a number changes during its life so far, with an ID-card mega database and iris-scanning technology being ditched in December 2006. The UK's controversial national ID-card programme has taken a big step closer to reality.
[August 10, 2007, 8:59]
US government researches 'smart' gun
News Interest in biometrics -- systems that recognise people by scanning for unique physical features such as fingerprints, an eye's iris and the contour of a face -- has surged since the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center in...
[October 22, 2002, 16:01]
absolute waste of money
Member Review My verdict: donate the money to charity, don't give to the geniuses at IRIS. And it stopped working after scanning three lines, says' bulk reading error'. I bought it for £150 and this is the biggest waste of money I ever had.
[January 13, 2009, 8:53]
Sensor-on-a-chip scans prints in an instant
News Fingerprints and iris recognition are among the most accurate and reliable methods being considered, although there is user resistance to techniques that have traditionally been identified with the detection of criminals.
[November 6, 2001, 16:11]
