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One million people's details could be culled from DNA database
News Click here for all there is on biometrics, from ear to X-ray. The European Court of Human Rights decision means that the DNA details and possibly fingerprints of about 850,000 people suspected of a... [05 Dec 2008]
€100m Pink Panther robbers snared by fingerprints
News E is for Ear For Mark Branchflower, head of Interpol's fingerprint unit, it drives home the importance of its Automated Fingerprint Identification System (Afis) which holds 80,500 sets of fingerprints... [22 Oct 2008]
Mobile biometric scanners for all UK police
News Click here for all there is on biometrics, from ear to X-ray. Handheld fingerprint readers will be rolled out to police across the UK from 2010 as part of the Project Midas scheme, allowing officers to perform on the... [22 Oct 2008]
ID cards on driving licences - 'law can't stop us'
News E is for Ear Each ID card, expected to cost £30, will contain a chip holding a scan of a person's face and two of their fingerprints, which can be checked against a facial scan and set of 10... [21 Oct 2008]
ID card 'will drown in a billion mismatches'
News E is for Ear The ID card scheme will guard against one person having multiple identities by checking the two fingerprints and facial scan held on a chip on the ID card against biometrics in a central... [26 Sep 2008]
One million ID cards every year from 2009
News E is for Ear The Home Office is trialling fingerprint enrolment for foreign nationals and has taken 12,000 fingerprints to date, which the Home Secretary said has resulted in four convictions and "a lot... [25 Sep 2008]
Fingerprints analysed on the beat
News E is for Ear The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) has extended a mobile fingerprinting trial by handing out 100 devices to a further 10 police forces.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics Click on the links below... [11 Jun 2008]
ID cards are dead
Comment E is for Ear The genius in that plan is to make the private sector pay for the biometric enrolment centres where people will have to queue up to have their fingerprints and irises scanned for the... [07 Mar 2008]
Biometrics the future for flying bliss?
News E is for Ear Finn said that future security systems will rely on e-passports, ID or smart cards or visas that would contain both biometric data - such as fingerprints and iris scans - and biographical... [21 Feb 2008]
Biometrics open up Heathrow Terminal One
News E is for Ear Passengers will have to provide four fingerprints and have their photograph taken at security so it can be used to check their identity at the gate. Fliers connecting onto a UK domestic... [08 Feb 2008]
FBI proposes global biometric criminal database
News E is for Ear The so-called "server in the sky" database would share biometric data, such as fingerprints and iris scans, of criminals internationally. The announcement of the server in the sky proposals... [15 Jan 2008]
Can biometrics secure the public's data?
Comment E is for Ear These traits are used to identify people by certain characteristics that are either physiological - such as faces, fingerprints, irises, veins and DNA - or behavioural - such as voices,... [23 Nov 2007]
UK passports face massive price hike
News E is for Ear The cost of a passport is set to increase "substantially" over the next five years to cover the cost of larger electronic chips that will hold more data and fingerprints. Fees for adult UK... [09 Oct 2007]
Police crackdown to see drivers fingerprinted
News E is for Ear The trial will allow immediate checking of fingerprints against the national fingerprint database known as Idnet1. Bedfordshire Police is the first of 10 forces to start fingerprint identity... [22 Nov 2006]
Long arm of the law reaches into ears with biometrics
News The University's Forensic Pathology Unit has been working with K9 Forensic Services to develop the computerised ear-recognition scheme, to be used by police forces, as well as immigration and intelligence services, which... [10 Mar 2004]
