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whitepaper As a solution Thriftway deployed Biometric payments made through Pay By Touch, backed by IBM e-business Hosting Services as part of IBM Software as Services. In May 2004, Thriftway Supermarkets became the first grocery retailer in the United States...
[11 May 2008]
News The government plans to start taking the first biometric details from UK citizens for its National Identity Register scheme next year but has delayed the mass roll-out of the scheme until 2015. Home Office spending on consultants shot up from £7.6m...
[11 Apr 2008]
Round-Up The campaign is an attack on government plans to take the biometric details of UK citizens for ID cards, starting next year. Wanted: fingerprints of one unkempt, jowly, harassed-looking Scottish gentleman.
[11 Apr 2008]
whitepaper The electronic registry will initially comprise the transcription of 40 000 existing paper registries (10 linear kms); each new database entry will be individually signed by a judge (magistrat), using a PKI infrastructure combining biometric...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper 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 strong, hard-to-guess...
[10 Apr 2008]
Photo The campaign is an attack on government plans to take the biometric details of UK citizens for ID cards, starting next year. Wild West-style wanted posters will offer a £1,000 reward for anyone capturing the fingerprints of the Prime Minister or...
[07 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Biometric identification refers to identifying an individual based on his/her distinguishing physiological and/or behavioural characteristics. As these characteristics are distinctive to each and every person, biometric identification is more...
[04 Apr 2008]
Round-Up Doing little to dispel the general sense of despair at Heathrow was news the airport has had to temporarily suspend plans to introduce biometric fingerprint checks for domestic passengers travelling through the airport.
[28 Mar 2008]
News Plans to introduce biometric fingerprint checks for domestic passengers travelling through Heathrow Airport have been delayed after the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) raised privacy concerns about the system.silicon.com's A to Z of...
[26 Mar 2008]
Case Study B is for Behavioural biometric Click on the links below to find out everything you'll need to know about biometric security. The trial is funded from the £3m that the Home Office has set aside for camera technology pilots.
[12 Mar 2008]
News Foreign nationals living in Britain will have to register their biometric details on the National Identity Register and carry an ID card by the end of this year. Biometric data for the cards is likely to be captured by private companies with people...
[10 Mar 2008]
Round-Up The government said it was still planning to force foreign nationals living in Britain to register their biometric details on the National Identity Register and carry an ID card by the end of the year.
[07 Mar 2008]
Comment B is for Behavioural biometric Click on the links below to find out everything you'll need to know about biometric security. But the big shift in the government's plans is the subtle sidelining of the physical biometric ID card itself.
[07 Mar 2008]
News A government u-turn has ditched plans to force people to get a biometric ID card when they renew or apply for a passport. But the government still intends to force foreign nationals living in Britain to register their biometric details on the...
[06 Mar 2008]
News Biometric technology has slashed the time taken to process visas for people coming to the UK, the government has said. Got two seconds? Make your voice heard - take our latest poll. UKvisas, the UK's visa checking agency, said it has cut the time...
[05 Mar 2008]
whitepaper The majority of cards and biometric readers in access control systems use a Wiegand interface to transmit data read from a card to a control panel. Wiegand is more of an informal working convention, which has allowed the manufacturers of card and...
[28 Feb 2008]
Comment More so, biometric technology introduces a consistent identification performance and contrary to the all too common rhetoric, biometric technology works and performs reliably. So, what is actually gained by enabling "trusted" people to pass through...
[28 Feb 2008]
News The latest government ID card plans have revealed people will face fines of up to £1,000 for skipping biometric scans. Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about the government's...
[26 Feb 2008]
News By 2015, biometric technology will make getting on a plane almost as easy as getting on the Tube or train today, according to a leading border security expert.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics Click on the links below to find out everything you'll...
[21 Feb 2008]
News And the union said it wants to make sure workers will not shoulder the projected £93 cost of the biometric card. Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about the government's ID card...
[20 Feb 2008]
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