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RSS fingerprint trialAirport IT budgets take off as cost savings take back seat
News The biometric technologies used for employee trials were fingerprint (67 per cent), hand geometry (17 per cent) and facial recognition (eight per cent). More than 96 per cent of airports plan to implement wireless and... [06 May 2004]
Biometric ID card trials delayed by technical problems
News The failure of fingerprint and iris-recognition equipment delayed the launch of the government's biometric ID card trials by three months, Home Secretary David Blunkett has admitted to MPs. No-one at Atos Origin was... [05 May 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Biometrics
Cheat Sheet Some Asian women on Barclaycard's trial had skin so fine it couldn't reliably be used to record or verify a fingerprint. Nowadays advanced systems will have 'liveness' tests - which means they will... [20 Apr 2004]
Hacking tests begin on national ID database
News Hughes said there will be further public and stakeholder consultation on ID cards after the results of the UKPS' six-month trial, which is due to begin this month, that will test the recording and verification of facial,... [15 Mar 2004]
Re:Viewing 2003 - Privacy and monitoring
News Biometrics has also caught the attention of banking bosses, with Nationwide continuing trials of iris and fingerprint recognition to improve security. The idea of introducing a biometric identity card was on and off... [23 Dec 2003]
Internet banks to trial facial recognition for customers
News It is the sort of thing that in five years time may work and it's not radically different from using a fingerprint reader. Internet banks in the UK and Europe are set to trial facial recognition... [11 Dec 2003]
Iris, fingerprints and face to be used in ID card trial
News Iris, fingerprint and facial recognition will all be tested as part of the UK Passport Service's six-month trial of biometric technology ahead of the introduction of potentially compulsory national ID... [08 Dec 2003]
Massive tech investment at heart of BA recovery plans
News Iris scanning is currently the biometric that BA has the most optimism about after testing revealed fingerprint readings could be hindered by dirt on the hand, while face recognition is seen as too difficult. [24 Sep 2003]
Nationwide ditches iris and fingerprint biometrics
News The Nationwide building society is continuing with plans to use pioneering biometric electronic signature technology, despite dropping plans to use iris and fingerprint recognition. Iris recognition was also considered... [23 Sep 2003]
Biometric passport trial on the cards
News In line with Civil Aviation Authority rules, the Passport Service must have biometric chips - containing fingerprint or iris data - embedded into British passports by 2005, with the service's overall strategy of... [27 Aug 2003]
Giving gadget thieves the finger - biometric security moves on
Comment The latter is made real in devices such as hand-held computers that will only work when a recognised fingerprint is applied. The first type of scenario is being taken forward with technology such as RFID tags, though a... [09 Jul 2003]
UK police force spends £2m on database
News The system is based around a fingerprint database, but also holds up to 99 other documents on each prisoner held in the police authority's 21 stations. West Midlands Police has implemented a £2m pound database project... [05 Nov 1998]
