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Warning: ID cards face fingerprint errors
News BAG urged the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) to adopt iris scans as a "fall back", for when there are problems taking or matching a fingerprint. The IPS is putting an enlarged fingerprint bureau in place to ensure that exceptions can be... [20 Jun 2008]
Can biometrics secure the public's data?
Comment There are numerous biometrics technologies, including fingerprint recognition, iris scans, face recognition, voice recognition and even vein and palm recognition. Fingerprint or iris recognition is being used at some organisations to enable... [23 Nov 2007]
Biometric airport security gets thumbs-up
News Fingerprint and iris scans were used for screening more than 3,000 passengers who volunteered to take part in the trial on Cathay Pacific and Emirates flights to and from Dubai and Hong Kong. A more advanced miSense screening collected 10... [20 Jun 2007]
Re:Viewing 2006: The year in retail and leisure
News Not long after chip and PIN's launch, its successor was already being talked about - using biometrics such as iris scans and fingerprints for making payments. Trials of fingerprint payments kicked off in Oxford's Co-op stores in March and the... [18 Dec 2006]
Photos: Biometric security comes to Heathrow
Photo The miSense trial at London's Heathrow Airport will use biometric fingerprint and iris scans to screen air passengers on selected Emirates and Cathay Pacific flights to and from Dubai and Hong Kong. A digital facial image is also taken, along with... [06 Dec 2006]
Heathrow to run biometric security checks
News Biometric fingerprint and iris scans will be used for screening air passengers on Emirates and Cathay Pacific flights to and from Dubai and Hong Kong as part of a trial at London's Heathrow Airport. Arriving at immigration in Heathrow, Dubai or... [06 Dec 2006]
Leader: Will biometrics turn us into a nation of hoodies?
Leader Read silicon.com's A to Z of biometrics to find out more about iris scans, palm prints and ID cards. So what happens when your password is your fingerprint? But if your fingerprint becomes the quotidian way you log onto the corporate network - as... [24 Jul 2006]
Co-op doubles fingerprint payment supermarkets
News Read silicon.com's A to Z of biometrics to find out more about iris scans, palm prints and ID cards. Three more Co-ops are to be kitted out with equipment that will allow shoppers to pay using their index fingerprint after the supermarket chain... [24 Jul 2006]
Crime of the future - biometric spoofing?
News Although biometric security systems - using fingerprints, iris scans and facial recognition - are only just now entering the mainstream, they are likely to be common within a few years. In response vendors are building tighter security into their... [20 Jul 2006]
Leader: ID cards fight must go on
Leader Yes, until 2010 you'll have the option of declining an ID card when you renew your passport but you still have to pay for the cost of the card regardless of whether you receive it and you'll still have your fingerprint and iris scans stored in the... [31 Mar 2006]
Lords leave ID cards bill in tatters
News Although the government claims ID cards will initially be voluntary, it wants to force anyone applying for a new passport to give their fingerprint and iris scans for inclusion on the ID card database: the NIR. [24 Jan 2006]
Researchers pore over biometrics spoofing data
News Iris scans work well but are commercially impracticable. 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. [22 Dec 2005]
Microsoft warns ID cards pose massive security risk
News Fishenden said no systems are ever completely secure and warned that putting vast amounts of personal data and biometric information such as iris, fingerprint and facial scans in one central database would prove too tempting a target for hackers... [18 Oct 2005]
Government denies passport fingerprinting plan
News But the Home Office insists no date has been set for this, or for any other potential additional biometrics such as iris scans. In its business plan, published last month, the UK Passport Service said that fingerprint scans are likely to be... [13 Apr 2005]
Cheat Sheet: ID cards
Cheat Sheet The Home Office ran a trial over the summer - which silicon.com took part in - enrolling 10,000 volunteers for a mock ID card using iris scans, facial recognition and a fingerprint scan. The person checking the card would use a card reader in... [22 Nov 2004]
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