fingerprint in comment and analysis
Biometrics: Your questions answered
Comment Nicola King, senior consultant, government services division, PA Consulting answers: "Matsumoto is one of a range of researchers who have developed methods that have been proven to fool a range of biometric readers for each of the main biometric... [20 Aug 2004]
Leader: Fear not the biometric ID
Leader The government is aiming to put 10,000 volunteers through a mock enrolment process that will test various biometrics including facial recognition, iris scans and fingerprint scans. silicon.com this week took part in the UK government's biometric ID... [13 Aug 2004]
silicon.com gets a UK biometric ID card
Comment Inside a chair sits in front of a desk with one machine that scans the iris and takes a facial biometric, and another machine that takes a fingerprint scan. Next up is the fingerprint scanner. Interestingly, the Home Office spokesman accompanying... [12 Aug 2004]
India diary: Day six - Space-age tech campuses
Comment The centre has tight security with biometric fingerprint scanners on the door to control entry. silicon.com reporter Andy McCue was on assignment in India from 14 to 23 April investigating offshoring efforts in Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and New... [09 Jun 2004]
Leader: Biometrics will march onwards
Leader The US authorities are demanding certain people visiting that country don't just present a passport and visa but have their photo taken and fingerprint digitally recorded on entry. The march towards biometric forms of identity recognition and... [06 Jan 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Biometric choices, 3G+WLAN and EMC buying VMWare
Comment Biometrics have been used for many years for a variety of applications across a range of industries, including the use of fingerprint or iris scans for personal verification in the financial services industry, such as for withdrawals at ATMs. [22 Dec 2003]
Biometrics: Eyes, ears, face or voice?
Comment According to figures from IDC, European sales of biometric technologies will grow from $1bn in 2003 to $3bn in 2006, with fingerprint scanning, voice recognition and facial scanning the three dominant form factors. [15 Dec 2003]
Leader: Who do you think you are?
Leader So by the end of a year in which the general public have learnt about phishing and ID theft, they are now looking and feeling their way around subjects such as iris and fingerprint biometric ID checks. [04 Dec 2003]
UK faces massive ID card challenges
Comment Compulsory identity cards containing biometric information such as an iris or fingerprint scan are set to become a part of everyday life for UK citizens over the next 10 years, with the Home Secretary David Blunkett finally unveiling a draft ID... [01 Dec 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Sick Note
Comment While asking for security restrictions and limited access, many liked the idea of fingerprint recognition as the mechanism for enforcement. The public has not given up on hopes that personal information might be kept private. [14 Oct 2003]
Biometrics still not ready for business
Comment The future according to Hollywood would have us believe that Minority Report style biometric iris-scanning and fingerprint reading technology will become a part of our everyday lives both at home and at work. [23 Sep 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. Devices are getting much smarter. Just a few years ago, it was all about us, as humans, as administrators of various guises... [09 Jul 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Trusting Trustworthy Computing and m-commerce made easy
Comment Last week Bango.net announced Bango Fingerprint, which provides a unique identity aimed at smoothing the communication between a mobile user and a mobile site that offers content. This identity or fingerprint can be used in a similar way to a... [12 May 2003]
Schoolchildren's fingerprints - the assessment you must read
Comment First of all, it's worth pointing out that using a fingerprint-based ID system to identify students for school library systems is not by default a bad thing. The Information Commission itself - despite coming down in favour of the system - admits... [23 Jul 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: A citizens' database, JD Edwards and corporate PDA support
Comment Thus, as we board an aeroplane we hand over our ID and match the fingerprint to that stored with our records. In his keynote speech at OpenWorld, he confirmed Oracle's 9i database software has been delivered to certain security agencies free of... [10 Dec 2001]
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