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RSS fingerprints f€100m Pink Panther robbers snared by fingerprints
News 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 taken from non-nationals... [22 Oct 2008]
ID cards on driving licences - 'law can't stop us'
News 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 fingerprints held on the... [21 Oct 2008]
ID card 'will drown in a billion mismatches'
News But academic John Daugman, a former member of the Biometrics Assurance Group (BAG) which reviewed the scheme, says its reliance on fingerprints and facial photos to verify a person's identity will cause the system to... [26 Sep 2008]
One million ID cards every year from 2009
News 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 of examples of ID... [25 Sep 2008]
ID cards face student scorn
News She said the two fingerprints and photograph stored on the card would provide greater protection against identity theft and help fight illegal working, immigration abuse and serious crime. People aged 16 to 25 have been... [09 Jul 2008]
Fingerprints analysed on the beat
News 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 to find out everything you'll... [11 Jun 2008]
ID cards are dead
Comment 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 national identity register. [07 Mar 2008]
ID cards: Gov't slaps on fines of up to £1,000
News The Home Office documents predict the cards will be fitted with a "tamperproof chip" containing encrypted information, which would include the holder's face, two fingerprints, personal details and immigration status. [26 Feb 2008]
Biometrics the future for flying bliss?
News 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 data, ranging from name and... [21 Feb 2008]
Biometrics open up Heathrow Terminal One
News 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 flight will be directed to follow... [08 Feb 2008]
FBI proposes global biometric criminal database
News 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 follows the news earlier this... [15 Jan 2008]
Can biometrics secure the public's data?
Comment 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, signatures and... [23 Nov 2007]
Editor's Blog: Missing data, missing brains
Comment The argument goes something like this: imagine what catastrophes they would be able to engineer if we gave them access to our fingerprints and other biometrics.silicon.com has been watching the government's ID card... [21 Nov 2007]
ID cards to cost more than £5.6bn
News 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, according to a separate report by a parliamentary... [09 Nov 2007]
UK passports face massive price hike
News 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 passports have risen by £45... [10 Oct 2007]
