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RSS fingerprintsVoice Biometrics as a Natural and Cost-Effective Method of Authentication
White Paper In the past, voice biometrics took a back seat to other physical biometric methods of identification and verification, such as fingerprints, facial recognition and iris scans, but new algorithms and more robust computer... [01 Apr 2009]
Home Office to widen ID card grasp?
News Under the proposed regulations, which are part of government plans, applicants under six categories for UK immigration will need to provide fingerprints and a photograph to be stored electronically on the card, the Home... [13 Feb 2009]
Exclusive: ID cards are here - but police can't read them
News While some details about the holder as well as their photo is printed on the face of the card, the cardholder's fingerprints can only be accessed by reading the chip. The first UK ID cards have already been issued - but... [04 Feb 2009]
IT Provider Uses Application Virtualization for Mission-Critical Software Upgrade
White Paper KIVBF needed to install new software on 2,000 PCs overnight to enable its customers to issue enhanced, second-generation passports with digital fingerprints. Kommunale InformationsVerarbeitung Baden-Franken (KIVBF)... [10 Dec 2008]
One million people's details could be culled from DNA database
News The European Court of Human Rights decision means that the DNA details and possibly fingerprints of about 850,000 people suspected of a crime, but later cleared, could be removed. Nearly one million innocent people's DNA... [05 Dec 2008]
ID cards: Rely on 'visual check' as biometrics unreadable
News Fingerprints and facial scans will be captured at seven UKBA centres, starting with Croydon today before rolling it out to other centres in Armagh, Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool and Sheffield, with all centres... [25 Nov 2008]
Row over high street biometrics
News While anti-ID campaigners have said it will be almost impossible to lock fingerprints to biographical details in a secure manner if those biometrics are taken in a high-street business, Smith said on Thursday that the... [10 Nov 2008]
ID card costs rise - but is the security weakening?
News Yesterday the government began touting for high street businesses and other companies to install the equipment to take the 10 fingerprints, facial and signature scan that will be stored in the NIR. Critics say it will... [07 Nov 2008]
ID scheme treads the high street for fingerprints
News The Home Office wants to use the tender process to gauge whether businesses such as post offices and banks would be interested in participating in taking fingerprints from people for the scheme, silicon.com sister site... [06 Nov 2008]
€100m Pink Panther robbers snared by fingerprints
News For Mark Branchflower, head of Interpol's fingerprint unit, it drives home the importance of its Automated Fingerprint Identification System (Afis) which holds 80,500 sets of fingerprints taken from non-nationals... [22 Oct 2008]
Mobile biometric scanners for all UK police
News Handheld fingerprint readers will be rolled out to police across the UK from 2010 as part of the Project Midas scheme, allowing officers to perform on the spot ID checks without having to take suspects back to the station. [22 Oct 2008]
Counter-Forensic Tools: Analysis and Data Recovery
White Paper The research also isolates filesystem fingerprints generated when these tools are used, which can identify the tool, demonstrate its actual use and, in many cases, provide insight into the extent and time of its use. [22 Oct 2008]
ID cards on driving licences - 'law can't stop us'
News Each ID card, expected to cost £30, will contain a chip holding a scan of a person's face and two of their fingerprints, which can be checked against a facial scan and set of 10 fingerprints held on the... [21 Oct 2008]
Chrome future, vintage PCs and credit crunch IT
News John Daugman, academic and former member of the Biometrics Assurance Group which reviewed the ID scheme, says the project's reliance on fingerprints and facial photos will lead to a billion mismatched identifications. [03 Oct 2008]
ID card 'will drown in a billion mismatches'
News But academic John Daugman, a former member of the Biometrics Assurance Group (BAG) which reviewed the scheme, says its reliance on fingerprints and facial photos to verify a person's identity will cause the system to... [26 Sep 2008]
