biometrics
RSS biometricsAn Open Source Java Framework for Biometric Web Authentication Based on BioAPI
White Paper One of the major early problems that biometrics faced was the lack of interoperability between different software applications and devices developed by different vendors. The BioAPI Specification has defined an open... [06 Feb 2009]
Exclusive: ID cards are here - but police can't read them
News Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton told silicon.com: "If this capability is not there then the biometrics are, in short, a waste of time. The first UK ID cards have already been issued - but no UK... [04 Feb 2009]
The Future of Online Internet Marketing: A Solution to Behavioral Marketing Using Biometrics
White Paper This paper reviews the current approaches to Internet behavioral marketing and its shortcomings as well as biometrics and its potential for more effective Internet marketing. Internet marketing is still an experimental... [02 Feb 2009]
First large-scale ID card trials coming to Manchester?
News Biometrics from A-Z… Manchester is one of several areas being considered in the UK to act as a test bed for the rollout of ID cards to UK citizens. Thousands of people living in the pilot areas, likely to be major UK... [29 Jan 2009]
"Please give me an ID card" say UK citizens
News Biometrics from A-Z Click here for all there is on biometrics, from ear to X-ray. More than 1,000 messages asking for ID cards have flooded into the Home Office. Over the last two years, 1,142 out of... [22 Dec 2008]
North West leading the rise of online banking
News Check out silicon.com's Cheat Sheets… Google Android Video: ID cards BBC iPlayer Galileo CRM Biometrics The North West has embraced online and phone banking more than anywhere else in the UK. [18 Dec 2008]
One million people's details could be culled from DNA database
News Biometrics from A-Z Click here for all there is on biometrics, from ear to X-ray. Nearly one million innocent people's DNA records could be wiped from the national database after the EU ruled it breached... [05 Dec 2008]
Facebook Koobface worm strikes again
News Biometrics from A-Z… A worm responsible for sending Facebook users malicious code has surfaced. Although the worm appears to be limited in nature, the social engineering attack may be used again, say experts. [05 Dec 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.11.08
Round-Up Booth seethed: "It makes a lie of all these grandiose claims about biometrics if there is not the infrastructure to back it up. The national ID card scheme has had its detractors. Quite a few, actually. [01 Dec 2008]
ID cards: Rely on 'visual check' as biometrics unreadable
News Phil Booth, national co-ordinator for ID cards pressure group NO2ID, said: "It makes a lie of all these grandiose claims about biometrics if there is not the infrastructure to back it up. Fingerprints and facial scans... [25 Nov 2008]
Inbox: Brits baying for blood over ID
Comment Biometrics is a way of safeguarding against fraud but it is not that magical solution to fraud or identity theft, not on its own. This week, ID cards were in the news yet again, this time with readers commenting on a... [24 Nov 2008]
ID cards 'could replace passports'
News B is for Biometrics UK citizens will be able to use their ID cards to travel to Europe, raising the possibility that they could eventually replace passports, according to the Identity and Passport Service (IPS). [21 Nov 2008]
Half of Brits willing to give blood to prove identity
News Despite the furore that has dogged the UK's ID card rollout, Brits appear to be in favour of using biometrics technology and even their blood in order to protect their personal information and identity. [19 Nov 2008]
Row over high street biometrics
News Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has insisted biometrics taken from people in high-street businesses will be secure. While anti-ID campaigners have said it will be almost impossible to lock fingerprints to biographical... [10 Nov 2008]
ID scheme treads the high street for fingerprints
News Home Secretary Jacqui Smith will invite high-street businesses today to tender to be biometrics enrolment centres for the National Identity Scheme, which the government will use to issue ID cards. The Home Office wants... [06 Nov 2008]
