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The Weekly Round-Up: 11.04.08

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...

Tags: windows, yahoo, gordon brown, microsoft

[11 Apr 2008]

Data-Converter Challenges in SoC Design

whitepaper Mixed-mode SOC (system-on-chip) designs cover a wide spectrum of applications, including areas as diverse as television, datacomm, fingerprint sensors, electronic games, electronic supermarket-shelf tags, and many others.

Tags: embedded microprocessors, chip, blocks, analog

[10 Apr 2008]

HP Success Story

whitepaper Over the years, fingerprints have played an important role in the identification of criminals, with police forces all over the world building up large stores of fingerprint records. Little wonder, then, that automated fingerprint identification...

Tags: border security, identification, records, fingerprint

[02 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08

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.

Tags: ofcom, wi-fi, train, plane

[28 Mar 2008]

Heathrow 'temporarily delays' fingerprint checks

News Plans to introduce biometric fingerprint checks for domestic passengers travelling through Heathrow Airport have been delayed after the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) raised privacy concerns about the system.silicon.com's A to Z of...

Tags: baa, biometrics, ico, heathrow

[26 Mar 2008]

HP Case Study: Ontario, California Police Department

whitepaper What Ontario has is the ability to check fingerprints on the fly, using handheld devices and wireless connectivity to link to the city's fingerprint database and potentially prove or disprove a person's identification at an incident scene.

Tags: tablets, hate, police, person

[08 Mar 2008]

ID card u-turn by government

News The penalties range from £125 for not notifying the government of the loss of an ID card, to £250 for not applying for a card or missing an appointment for fingerprint and facial scans. Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards

Tags: id cards, cards, identity, details

[06 Mar 2008]

Biometrics cuts days off UK visa processing

News Fingerprint scans and a digital photograph have been taken from all UK visa applicants since January 2008 at all of the UK's 150-plus issuing posts. Biometric technology has slashed the time taken to process visas for people coming to the UK, the...

Tags: visas, home office, immigration, checking

[05 Mar 2008]

ID cards: Gov't slaps on fines of up to £1,000

News Penalties ranging from £125 for not notifying the government of the loss of an ID card, to £250 for not applying for a card or missing an appointment for fingerprint and facial scans, were revealed in the Home Office consultation papers.

Tags: id cards, government, biometrics, identity

[26 Feb 2008]

EU border checks go biometric

News From 2009, all EU passports will feature a digital fingerprint and photograph and, from 2011 non-EU citizens who apply for a visa will have to give their biometric details. Under plans to strengthen checks at European borders laid out by the...

Tags: biometric, eu, border, requiring

[14 Feb 2008]

Accenture and BAE Systems abandon ID cards

News And also the replacement and upgrading of systems for fingerprint matching and storage in connection with immigration and visa requirements and transition to the replacement service. Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards

Tags: id cards, government, bae systems, biometric

[25 Jan 2008]

Biometric fingerprint checks for UK visas

News All applicants for visas to enter the UK will face biometric fingerprint checks from the end of this month. The fingerprint database contains the records of more than one million previous visa applicants.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics

Tags: biometrics, immigration, border, fingerprint

[14 Jan 2008]

Clothing recognition tech nabs armed robber

Case Study However, in one of the robberies, one of the individuals discarded a piece of paper from which the police were able to recover a fingerprint. Similar clothes were taken from the suspect's home, after police had established through the fingerprint...

Tags: police, crime, cctv, evidence

[13 Dec 2007]

A Method of Identify OS Based on TCP/IP Fingerprint

whitepaper This paper present a method that classify the fingerprint of protocol, use the frame to describe the fingerprint in order to create the frame system, get the information of host to match the system to identify the type of OS in remote host.

Tags: tcp - ip

[05 Dec 2007]

Weaknesses in Wireless LAN Session Containment

whitepaper Using the traffic analysis techniques described in this paper, an attacker can fingerprint the type of wireless LAN intrusion detection system deployed to monitor and protect the wireless network, and potentially evade the session containment...

Tags: local area networks (lan)

[05 Dec 2007]

Hybrid Algorithm for Indoor Positioning Using Wireless LAN

whitepaper It first formulates the RF propagation loss in a nonlinear, censored regression model and adjusts the regression function to the observed signal strength in the fingerprint dataset. Locating an indoor mobile station based on wireless communication...

Tags: local area networks (lan)

[05 Dec 2007]

Can biometrics secure the public's data?

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...

Tags: law, biometrics, fingerprint reader, facial recognition

[23 Nov 2007]

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]

ID cards will be secure, insists Home Office

News The Home Office spokesman added: "No one is saying the scheme will be a panacea but by linking unique biometric information - initially face, fingerprint and possibly in future iris too - to one set of biographical information will make the use of...

Tags: id cards, biometrics, full disclosure

[25 Oct 2007]

Named: ID cards scheme supplier hopefuls

News Suppliers will be required to design, build, deploy and service various projects - including an overhaul of the Immigration and Asylum Fingerprint System - as well as offer business process and IT outsourcing.

Tags: passports, suppliers, procurement, ips

[22 Oct 2007]

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