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Round-Up Again, you're going to be standing around with your fingerprint kit in your hands for a while unless you're a frequent visitor to 10 Downing Street or the PM drinks in your local. The truly ambitious might also want to try and fingerprint him while...
[11 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]
Comment Fingerprint or iris recognition is being used at some organisations to enable employees to log on to the network, thus ensuring only authorised employees can access certain parts of the network. There are numerous biometrics technologies, including...
[23 Nov 2007]
Leader The proposed national identity register for the ID card scheme will store even more data, including biometric information - what happens if your fingerprint records fall into the hands of identity thieves?
[22 Nov 2007]
Leader He also let slip that the government will allow police to check every fingerprint held on the National Identity Register to try and solve crimes. Have you had an email from Tony Blair this week? If you've been involved in the fierce debate on the...
[20 Feb 2007]
Round-Up One silicon.com reader wrote: "Heading towards a police state, cameras everywhere you turn, now fingerprint checking because you've done 31mph. Officers are being given nifty wireless gadgets which will take the fingerprints and then transmit them...
[24 Nov 2006]
Leader The use of fingerprint or iris recognition has been something of a controversial subject in recent years, especially in instances where their use is a requirement rather than an option. However, the ardent opposition of yesteryear to these...
[31 Oct 2006]
Comment This week, at a professional and not a commercial conference, I was even handed a fingerprint reader. Written at a conference in London and dispatched a day later from a LAN cable I found lying unused on the floor in an office building I happened...
[27 Oct 2006]
Round-Up However, should they decide in a moment of madness to smash a bottle over a fellow drinker's head, say, or swing a wild haymaker or two in the direction of a peer, they will be ejected and their fingerprint will be remembered by the system as...
[27 Oct 2006]
Leader So what happens when your password is your fingerprint? But if your fingerprint becomes the quotidian way you log onto the corporate network - as some experts think will be the case - then is this the biometric equivalent of writing your password...
[24 Jul 2006]
Leader Yes, until 2010 you'll have the option of declining an ID card when you renew your passport but you still have to pay for the cost of the card regardless of whether you receive it and you'll still have your fingerprint and iris scans stored in the...
[31 Mar 2006]
Leader It's a novel idea, whereby customers use their fingerprint to verify payment on their debit or credit card; one that brings James Bond technology to the checkout. Banks and credit card companies are being pulled in two directions.
[14 Mar 2006]
Leader In the UK, today's news follows a similar recent story about a school in Loughborough using biometric fingerprint readers to check pupils in and out. This publication and doubtless a number of others in the mainstream press have today covered a...
[21 Jan 2005]
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 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]
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]
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 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]
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]
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]
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