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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]
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.
[10 Apr 2008]
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...
[02 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]
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...
[26 Mar 2008]
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.
[08 Mar 2008]
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
[06 Mar 2008]
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...
[05 Mar 2008]
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.
[26 Feb 2008]
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...
[14 Feb 2008]
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
[25 Jan 2008]
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
[14 Jan 2008]
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...
[13 Dec 2007]
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.
[05 Dec 2007]
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...
[05 Dec 2007]
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...
[05 Dec 2007]
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]
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...
[25 Oct 2007]
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.
[22 Oct 2007]
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