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Photos: Windows 7 - getting inside security
Photo New to Windows 7 is biometric support. Here's a look at the security features of Microsoft's latest OS. The System and Security sub-section of the Control Panel acts as a clearinghouse for backing up data, preventing... [20 Oct 2009]
The PKI Authentication System With the Integration of Biometric Identification and Nonsymmetric Key Technology
White Paper To deal with the threats to the PKI authentication system from the internet and the real world, based on the analysis of biometric identification and nonsymmetric key technology, this paper presented a new PKI... [02 Oct 2009]
Safran (MorphoTrak, Inc.) Improves Performance 200% to 300% With Scalable and Efficient Database
White Paper Safran wanted to optimize performance of the Printrak Biometric Identification Solutions (BIS) system used by criminal justice and civil agencies to manage identification data and ensure meeting contractual obligations... [02 Oct 2009]
Nandan Nilekani
AS Profile But this year Nilekani will embark on what is arguably his toughest challenge yet, delivering biometric ID cards to every one of India's 1.2 billion population. Most people would be satisfied with being a co-founder of... [30 Sep 2009]
Mobile Biometric Identification
White Paper Adding a wireless dimension to Biometric Identification Systems (BIS) provides a more efficient and reliable method of identity management across criminal justice and civil markets. Yet deploying cost-effective portable... [15 Aug 2009]
Hands-on with Windows 7: How it worked for me
Comment It soon became apparent I had no biometric fingerprint capability, no touchscreen and no wireless WAN. Despite the hiccups I now have a fully working Windows 7 desktop machine, and a laptop with no... [13 Aug 2009]
Biometrics system for foreign students raises MPs' eyebrows
News The Home Affairs Committee looked at the role of the National Biometric Identity Service (NBIS) in student visa applications as part of a report into migration processes. Under the scheme, students must submit their... [05 Aug 2009]
Photos: UK's ID card revealed
Photo The cost of providing the cards and biometric passports for UK citizens over the next 10 years will be £5bn. The rear of the card is embedded with the microchip that stores the cardholder's biographic and... [30 Jul 2009]
Revealed: £12.4m cost of pilots' ID cards project
News Spending on the wider ID cards project was revealed in the IPS accounts, which showed the IPS spent £85.1m on developing tech for the National Identity Scheme, which includes tech to support both ID cards and second generation... [23 Jul 2009]
IBM inks ID cards biometrics contract despite Tory scrap pledge
News In April, IBM was awarded the contract to administer the National Biometric Identity Service (NBIS) database, which will hold identifying information such as facial images and fingerprints. The NBIS is used for... [13 Jul 2009]
Home Office CIO on taming tech and why ID cards are good news
Comment While it would be foolish to claim any system is 100 per cent secure, Vernon said, she claims that the security of people's personal and biometric details will be protected by the fact that the National Identity Register... [10 Jul 2009]
'Post Office workers can't spot ID card fraudsters'
News The Home Office had hoped biometric enrolment for cards would take place in Post Offices, but this could be thrown into doubt by a report by the Business and Enterprise Committee that found "many or even most identity... [08 Jul 2009]
Tories tell vendors: 'Don't sign ID card contracts'
News Grayling's letter referred to two ID scheme-related contracts: one given to CSC to upgrade passport application systems, and another given to IBM to supply the biometric database. The programme to introduce... [18 Jun 2009]
And the £400m biometric passport contract goes to…?
News The other deal, a contract to provide the National Biometric Identity Service with a database to support the introduction of biometric passports and ID cards, was awarded to IBM. The... [12 Jun 2009]
'Airwave does do data - unlike what some of the media say'
Comment Last year the head of biometrics at the National Policing Improvement Agency, Geoff Whitaker, claimed the Airwave network was not - "at present" - able to handle image file sizes generated by a trial of mobile biometric... [11 Jun 2009]
