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RSS biometricFinger Vein Authentication
White Paper Finger vein authentication is a new biometric method utilizing the vein patterns inside one's fingers for personal identity verification. Vein patterns are different for each finger and for each person; and as they are... [11 Jun 2009]
Photos: What Brown's reshuffle means for tech
Photo Top of the list is the £5bn ID cards project, the scheme to provide a biometric identity card for UK citizens and foreign nationals in the UK. Following a week of political turmoil culminating in a cabinet reshuffle,... [10 Jun 2009]
Tony Mather
CIO Profile Apart from championing mobile working - he uses an iPhone for work - Mather's role also incorporates responsibility for various major IT-related programmes such as biometric visas. Tony Mather is CIO of the Foreign and... [03 Jun 2009]
Ohiohealth's Dublin Methodist Hospital Goes Paperless, Providing Secure Access to Digital Information and Authenticated Prescription Drug Orders With Imprivata OneSign
White Paper OneSign provided users easy access with one strong password or biometric to all of the applications and information necessary for optimum patient care. OhioHealth is a family of not-for-profit, faith-based hospitals and... [01 Jun 2009]
Protecting Biometric Data With Extended Access Control: Securing Biometric Datasets in Electronic Identification Documents
White Paper While extremely valuable for strong authentication, biometric datasets contain sensitive personally identifiable information that criminal organization could leverage to commit fraud, impersonate identities or gain... [16 May 2009]
Biometric scanners to delve inside your brain
News Scanners that probe brain activity and heart rate are among the next generation of biometric security sensors being developed by the EU. Humabio stands for Human Monitoring and Authentication using... [12 May 2009]
Tech-world wonders, cyber art and Windows 7...
Photo The latest biometric technology for accessing buildings was on display recently at the launch of the Unisys Security Index and silicon.com's Nick Heath went to take a look. silicon.com's Natasha Lomas selected her seven... [11 May 2009]
ID cards head for the high street
News Under the plans customers will be able to use the high street outlets to scan their fingerprints and facial photographs that will be stored on microchips in the cards or biometric visas and the central National Identity... [06 May 2009]
ID cards: "massive drop" in public confidence, says Blunkett
News A single document combining a compulsory biometric passport with a driving licence would be more popular, according to Blunkett. MP David Blunkett, architect of the National Identity Scheme, has said there has been a... [05 May 2009]
NITConnect Automates Hospital's HR and Payroll Systems
White Paper Kronos is a biometric technology that delivers cost-effective quality care by controlling time and attendance in work environments. At a time when every industry is feeling the pinch and cutting costs, maintaining... [30 Apr 2009]
Photos: The future biometrics giving security a hand
Photo The latest biometric technology could let workers access buildings with a wave of their hand. However, vascular scanners are currently more expensive than alternative biometric systems, costing about... [24 Apr 2009]
Analysis - Biometrics: Digital Identity
White Paper IBS has covered the progress of biometric technology in the banking sector twice before, and on both occasions the bank installing biometric technology was in the Middle East. Cairo Amman Bank was the... [22 Apr 2009]
Inbox: Chip and PIN latest big IDea - and still no readers
Comment So 49 items of personal information, your life history and your biometric data are not judged to be secure methods of verifying your identity anymore? ID cards: still with unreadable chips but with added chip and PIN? [20 Apr 2009]
The A to Z of ID cards
News It also means the public will face an additional cost to register their biometric details in addition to the £30 cost of the card. The UK's data protection watchdog has said there is no justification for storing so much... [15 Apr 2009]
£650m ID card biometrics: IBM and CSC win contracts
News On Tuesday, the Home Office announced that IBM had won a £265m contract to build and run the UK Border Agency database of fingerprints and facial images taken for passports and visa applications, called the National... [08 Apr 2009]
