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Cheat Sheet: Chip and PIN

Cheat Sheet A number of other technologies were examined to cut down on fraud, including putting photos on cards as well as biometric solutions such as fingerprint and iris scanning and voice recognition. What is it?

Tags: credit cards, debit cards, chip-and-pin

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[13 Jun 2007]

Cheat Sheet: ID cards

Cheat Sheet The Home Office ran a trial over the summer - which silicon.com took part in - enrolling 10,000 volunteers for a mock ID card using iris scans, facial recognition and a fingerprint scan. The person checking the card would use a card reader in...

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[22 Nov 2004]

Cheat Sheet: Biometrics

Cheat Sheet Nowadays advanced systems will have 'liveness' tests - which means they will detect whether the finger is genuine living tissue (as long as somebody tells the muggers - who may still try it on anyway) - so basically a fingerprint isn't much use...

Tags: biometrics, cards, print, fingerprint

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[20 Apr 2004]