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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]
ID cards to remain unreadable until next year
News In February silicon.com revealed that no police stations, border entry points or job centres have readers for the cards' biometric chips - in spite of 22,500 cards having been issued to foreign nationals since November... [07 Apr 2009]
UC Irvine Computer Sciences Chooses D-Link Switches to Ensure Reliable, High-Performance Data Processing for Genome and Bioinformatics Applications
White Paper UCI ICS installed four DGS-3324SR 24-Port switches and three DXS-3350SR switches which handle the very large data sets the genome and biometric department was running, and to meet their own internal needs. [03 Apr 2009]
Voice 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]
'Fundamentally flawed, almost certainly illegal': Gov't databases
News The National Identity Register - the database behind the government's plan to record all UK citizens' biometric and personal details for its identity cards scheme - was criticised by the report's authors for breaking... [23 Mar 2009]
£8.5bn: Local government's outsourcing bill
News In central government, the largest outsourcing deals set to be signed this year feature the ID card scheme, including the application and enrolment contract and the national biometric identity service contract, both... [18 Mar 2009]
Combining Face and Iris Biometrics for Identity Verification
White Paper Face and iris identification have been employed in various biometric applications. Besides improving verification performance, the fusion of these two biometrics has several other advantages. Two different strategies... [16 Mar 2009]
Password Security Guidelines
White Paper Biometric devices. This document introduces the basic concepts of network authentication. In particular, it focuses on the use of user-IDs and passwords to verify the identity of users. Various strategies for selecting... [15 Mar 2009]
Product Re-Engineering - Terminal Operations Product
White Paper To enhance the scope so that the suite could easily integrate with the various terminal systems like TOS, biometric scanners, gate pass dispensers and collectors at different terminals, it was decided to reengineer the... [27 Feb 2009]
Home Office to widen ID card grasp?
News Until now, only students and foreign nationals applying to stay in the UK on the basis of marriage have been obliged to have the biometric cards. The spokesperson added that the biometric and personal... [13 Feb 2009]
An Open Source Java Framework for Biometric Web Authentication Based on BioAPI
White Paper The BioAPI Specification has defined an open system standard Application Program Interface (API) which allows software applications to communicate with a broad range of biometric technologies. This paper describes the... [06 Feb 2009]
Exclusive: ID cards are here - but police can't read them
News Currently no police stations, border entry points or job centres have readers for the card's biometric chip, the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) revealed in response to an FoI (Freedom of Information) request by... [04 Feb 2009]
FCO deal gets emergency passports travelling quicker
News The new system will even transmit the biometric ID that is captured in the one-sheet emergency document. The Foreign & Commonwealth Office has beefed up emergency travel document (ETD) processing through a deal with Logica. [02 Feb 2009]
