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Leader: It's time for a data breach disclosure law

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?

Tags: hmrc, full disclosure, campaign, records

[22 Nov 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 12.10.07

Round-Up Number two and three is a metallic slab from Porsche and Sagem that features bleak, industrial design married with a fingerprint reader. Another silicon.com reader, from Edinburgh, applauds the scheme and claims he's been taking advantage of the wi...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[12 Oct 2007]

Photos: The rise of the luxury mobile

Photo Developed in collaboration with Sagem, the phone has been designed along minimalist, almost utilitarian, lines but it does have one fancy feature: a fingerprint reader for use as a security device. Designer brands are falling over themselves to...

Tags: mp3 player, camera phone, touchscreen, iphone

[10 Oct 2007]

Add Fingerprint Scan-Based Security to Your .NET Applications Today

whitepaper This paper shows how a person can use the GrFinger SDK to integrate the Microsoft Fingerprint Reader into the .NET applications. Once a user is registered, the next time he visits the office he can simply scan his fingerprint and the system will...

Tags: security management, register, fingerprint, attendance

[02 Jul 2007]

Biometric airport security gets thumbs-up

News The manual check before security is then replaced by an automatic barrier activated by the passenger's fingerprint and a biometric reader verifies the passenger again at the boarding gate.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics

Tags: biometric, heathrow, misense

[20 Jun 2007]

RFID With Bio-Smart Card in Linux

whitepaper This paper describes the integration of fingerprint template and RF smart card for clustered network, which is designed on Linux platform and Open source technology to obtain biometrics security. Combination of smart card and biometrics has...

Tags: linux - open source, authentication, card, verification

[18 Apr 2007]

Seagate hypes laptop with built-in data lock

News In addition to an 80GB Seagate drive, the ASI machine will feature a fingerprint reader, 15.4-inch display, Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile 2.0GHz processor, Nvidia graphics with 256MB memory, 1GB RAM and a DVD rewritable drive, according to ASI.

Tags: seagate, security breach, data breach, encryption

[12 Mar 2007]

SAFLINK and Computer Associates Team Up to Bring Password Protection Into the 21st Century

whitepaper SAFaccess then replaces the remaining password with a biometric authentication device, such as a fingerprint reader. SAFLINK Corporation, based in Bellevue, Washington, provides biometric software solutions that secure business and personal...

Tags: authentication, passwords, biometric, single sign

[21 Feb 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 24.11.06

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...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[24 Nov 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Conference freebies

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...

Tags: freebies, cochrane blog, cochrane

[27 Oct 2006]

The Weekly Round-Up: 27.10.06

Round-Up So imagine the consternation in the regions at news that the good, hardworking folk of Yeovil, Somerset, will be required to use fingerprint biometrics in order to access their local boozer. Well obviously they will walk up to the pub, register...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[27 Oct 2006]

Co-op doubles fingerprint payment supermarkets

News Registered shoppers have their fingerprint linked with credit card or debit card information and verify payment by pressing their digit against a reader. Three more Co-ops are to be kitted out with equipment that will allow shoppers to pay using...

Tags: co-op, mid counties, biometrics, fingerprint

[24 Jul 2006]

Oxford Co-ops test fingerprint payments

News Shoppers will be able to link their fingerprint with credit card or debit card information and verify payment by pressing their digit against a reader. The first Oxford store to trial the biometrics system has reported that paying by fingerprint...

Tags: co-op, pay by touch, biometric, fingerprint

[08 Mar 2006]

Researchers pore over biometrics spoofing data

News Researchers at Clarkson University have found that fingerprint readers can be spoofed by fingerprint images lifted with Play-Doh or gelatine or a model of a finger moulded out of dental plaster. The algorithm, created by Stephanie Schuckers...

Tags: biometrics, banking, fingerprint, fingerprint reader

[22 Dec 2005]

Police patrol cars get mobile fingerprint readers

News The police officers use a handheld biometric fingerprint reader that is connected to a mobile data terminal fitted in the patrol car. Police patrol cars in Northamptonshire are being fitted with mobile fingerprint readers as part of a trial that...

Tags: fingerprint, police

[01 Jul 2005]

A Bayesian Framework for Robust Reasoning From Sensor Networks

whitepaper The paper also presents the preliminary results of applying the Bayesian framework to the people localization problem in indoor environment using a sensor network that consists of video cameras, infrared tag readers and a fingerprint reader.

Tags: monitoring systems, framework, sensor, bayesian

[10 May 2005]

ThinkPads with Integrated Fingerprint Readers Secure Your Mobile Workforce

whitepaper The ThinkPadŽ integrated fingerprint reader puts security at your fingertip. Insight offers the full range of ThinkPads with integrated fingerprint readers at affordable prices so you can secure your mobile workforce.

Tags: security tools, workforce, protected, reader

[03 May 2005]

DoCoMo to buy into credit card company?

DoCoMo to buy into credit card company?

News With newer FeliCa phones carrying user cash accounts and capable of fingerprint ID recognition, DoCoMo is already some way towards offering basic financial services. The operator has so far shifted over one million phones equipped with Sony's...

Tags: sumitomo, docomo

[20 Apr 2005]

ID card and biometric passport roadmap updated

ID card and biometric passport roadmap updated

News In addition, European Union standards require passports to include a facial image and fingerprint scans. The UKPS said that as a result fingerprint scans are likely to be incorporated into the passport chip later in the decade.

Tags: passport, biometrics, id cards

[29 Mar 2005]

Microsoft targets passwords with biometric keyboard

Microsoft targets passwords with biometric keyboard

News The keyboard includes a fingerprint reader which will enable users to store their biometric ID and use that as authentication when logging onto password protected sites - having stored the passwords locally on the device.

Tags: biometric, password, fingerprint, id

[10 Mar 2005]

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