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Comment S is for Signature verification V is for Voice verification If you wondered what the loud screeching of brakes was in Whitehall this week it was the sound of the government attempting to halt the ID cards juggernaut and execute an almighty...
[07 Mar 2008]
Leader Even though the MP for South Luton Margaret Moran's Ten Minute Rule Bill on age verification for online purchases has gone through to a second reading in May, it is at best ill-thought-out and at worst, nothing more than a cynical ruse to whip up...
[22 Jan 2008]
Comment V is for Voice verification S is for Signature verification With the furore over 25 million missing child benefit records, the public sector's use of personal data has never been under greater scrutiny.
[23 Nov 2007]
Comment In contrast CDs and DVDs require a great deal more fuss and bother with the process of burning and verification. Written at a Copenhagen hotel and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi service Ask yourself this simple question: when was the...
[25 Oct 2007]
Comment Rebecca Clayton, marketing director of the Experian offshoot QAS, which provides data integrity services such as address verification, says: "We talk to thousands of companies a year and come across many communications challenges between departments.
[06 Mar 2007]
Leader It goes on to predict that, by 2016, all major government services and businesses including banks are using the ID card to conduct 400 million verification checks per year. A few decades back it was pretty much assumed that we'd all be getting to...
[21 Apr 2006]
Comment But in some perverse mode I have never seen before, my log-on screen came up with a verification number that I have to take to reception to gain authorised access. Written in the lobby of a nice new London hotel that shall remain nameless, and...
[29 Mar 2006]
Leader As part of our ID Cards on Trial campaign we asked the Home Office to give public guidance on set-up costs, break down in detail how it calculated the running costs and how they will be paid for, and guidance on the likely costs for other...
[17 Jan 2006]
Comment Now callers purport to be from the MasterCard or Visa fraud department, calling you to try to trick you into revealing your CVV (Cardholder Verification Value) number on the back of your card. To many, the name Kevin Mitnick is synonymous with...
[07 Nov 2005]
Leader By 2008 the technology and the means of identity verification should be robust enough to guarantee a fairly flawless e-voting system. London Mayor Ken Livingstone has given his backing to the idea of e-voting, suggesting the next mayoral elections...
[15 Oct 2004]
Comment However compared to their human counterparts these identification/verification systems are very accurate. Clive Walker asks: "What is the potential for biometrics to be used as digital verification in companies, on networks, on shared drives etc.
[20 Aug 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 Plans for a national ID card in the UK that will use either iris or fingerprint scans for verification have once again brought biometric technologies into the spotlight and authorities worldwide looking increasingly at biometric data as an extra...
[15 Dec 2003]
Comment The business world would do well to learn from the kind of verification and peer group review that is central to science. Peter Cochrane spells out the dangers of being slapdash. I can't recall the point in my education and training when I became...
[19 Dec 2002]
Comment Location sensing is the most obvious one, but opportunities also exist to link in to the security, payment, verification, provisioning and messaging protocols that networks have built and are continuing to build.
[14 Aug 2001]
Comment However, BioAPI is now the most widely adopted and it governs how biometrics can communicate with applications and sensors to perform verification and identification, which will accelerate the growth of the industry itself.
[30 Nov 2000]
Comment The amount of identity verification information needed in an online transaction is very little: birth dates, mother's maiden names, addresses and a password, which can all be easily guessed," he said.
[13 Nov 2000]
Comment Therefore, once the transaction has taken place, there's no reason for Powergen to continue to hold that information anywhere on its network.silicon.com reader Andrew North noted that if bricks-and-mortar retailers can achieve real-time...
[21 Jul 2000]
Comment Besides this, IBM is including a utility called User Verification Manager (UVM). * Security on a chip: a threat to civil liberties? Security news was the big concern among our clients last week. This followed the hardware announcements from IBM...
[04 Oct 1999]
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