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News Mobiles could eventually even be used to hold visa and biometric info. Mobile phones could be a godsend to the airline industry - saving time and therefore money. Mobile phones could be used to hold digital boarding passes, baggage tracking info... [20 Jun 2008]
Photos: Welcome to futuristic shopping
Photo This is a contactless payment point similar to the ones that have been rolled out across London for use with contactless payment cards from Mastercard and Visa. This screen is connected to the biometric sensor and displays special offers that the... [04 Jun 2008]
Biometrics cuts days off UK visa processing
News UKvisas, the UK's visa checking agency, said it has cut the time taken to check the identity of visa applicants from two days to less than 30 minutes. The system speeds up the process by checking a visa applicant's ID and biometrics against a... [05 Mar 2008]
EU border checks go biometric
News Biometric data would be submitted by travellers from outside the EU when applying for a visa, while those not needing a permit would be checked on arrival. From 2009, all EU passports will feature a digital fingerprint and photograph and, from 2011... [14 Feb 2008]
Accenture and BAE Systems abandon ID cards
News And also the replacement and upgrading of systems for fingerprint matching and storage in connection with immigration and visa requirements and transition to the replacement service. Two major IT suppliers have pulled out of the bidding for... [25 Jan 2008]
FBI proposes global biometric criminal database
News The announcement of the server in the sky proposals follows the news earlier this week that the UK has completed a system to check the fingerprints of every visa applicant. UK police are in talks with the FBI about an international biometric... [15 Jan 2008]
Biometric fingerprint checks for UK visas
News The fingerprint database contains the records of more than one million previous visa applicants.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics The system will cover 133 countries, three-quarters of the world's population, and has already uncovered 10,000 visa... [14 Jan 2008]
Top 10 government IT stories of the year
News The Border and Immigration Agency is aiming to use biometric measures for all non-visa nationals arriving from outside the European Economic Area by 2011. Undoubtedly, the fall-out from HM Revenue & Customs' loss of two discs containing 25 million... [19 Dec 2007]
UK passports face massive price hike
News The UK switched to ePassports in 2006 to comply with the US Visa Waiver Programme. To meet the US Visa Waiver deadline the UK's Identity and Passport Service was forced to accept a manufacturer's guarantee of only a two-year lifetime for the chips... [10 Oct 2007]
Biometrics wing their way into Gatwick
News The Border and Immigration Agency is aiming to use biometric measures for all non-visa nationals arriving from outside the European Economic Area by 2011. UKvisas, a joint Home Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office unit that runs the UK's visa... [09 Oct 2007]
Biometric visas get $4.4m tech boost
News The biometric programme has been running since September 2006 and aims to record fingerprints of every foreign national applying for a UK visa by April next year. The UK biometrics visa programme has awarded a $4.4m contract to Cross Match... [24 Sep 2007]
100,000 non-UK fingerprints recorded each month
News The biometric programme has been running since last September with the aim of recording the fingerprints of every foreign national applying for a UK visa by April 2008. Visa applicants in 100 countries worldwide are required to provide... [17 Sep 2007]
Gov trumpets ePassports successes
News The government has pointed to the successes of its ePassports scheme, claiming 4,000 ineligible visa applications have been blocked due to biometric checks. Biometric checking enabled immigration authorities to catch out more than 4,000 visa... [13 Jul 2007]
National ID Scheme an "essential defence"
News The minister also highlighted evidence of a growing risk in ID fraud in the UK discovered through the government's biometric visa project. Since the tech was rolled out, more than 4,000 visa applicants have been found to be withholding information... [19 Jun 2007]
Scots tots buy school dinners with veins
News In the future, parents may also be able to top up their kids' credit using PayPal or online Visa payment. Kids at Todholm Primary School are guinea pigs for a biometric payment system being developed by Fujitsu and Yarg Biometrics, called... [31 Oct 2006]
