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Biometrics the future for flying bliss?
News Sita has had general talks with the UK government about future border control systems and has been involved with developing a number of precursors to these technologies, including the miSense biometric security trial at Heathrow Airport. [21 Feb 2008]
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News The trial continues until May 2008 However, only arrivals from Sierra Leone were included in the trial, as these flights arrived in the UK at a quiet time for immigration staff. This happened before the loss of child benefit claimants' personal... [19 Dec 2007]
Biometrics wing their way into Gatwick
News Gatwick airport is the latest UK airport to trial biometric fingerprinting technology to boost immigration security. At present only arrivals from Sierra Leone who have been issued with biometric visas in the capital Freetown will be included in... [09 Oct 2007]
ID cards-based criminal record checks 'are A-OK'
News Plans for a new service using the government's controversial ID cards scheme to speed up criminal records checks have met with approval from volunteers involved in a trial of the tech. Each volunteer completed two legs in the trial - one using a... [01 Oct 2007]
Co-op doubles fingerprint payment supermarkets
News 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 decided to extend a trial of Pay by Touch technology. A Mid Counties Co-op spokesman told silicon.com... [24 Jul 2006]
Official: ID cards project will fail
News Read silicon.com's leader on the ongoing ID Cards on Trial campaign and the A to Z of ID cards for the lowdown on this controversial project. Leaked emails from senior civil servants have revealed their fears that the ID cards project is heading... [10 Jul 2006]
ID card spending doubles to £56m
News The IPS said it will trial taking fingerprints next year as a second passport biometric. The new Identity and Passport Service will spend £56m on setting up the controversial ID cards project this year. [21 Apr 2006]
New ID cards agency set up after Queen approves bill
News Plus: Read our leader on the ongoing silicon.com ID Cards on Trial campaign. The government has wasted no time in starting work on the controversial ID card scheme after the bill became law this week, and has set up a new agency that will be tasked... [31 Mar 2006]
Paying by iris and fingerprint - the next chip and PIN?
News Shoppers in Oxford started to pay with their fingers this month, as the Co-op launched its trial of a biometric fingerprint payment system. Existing forms of payment - such as credit and debit cards - are under constant attack from hackers and... [14 Mar 2006]
Are biometrics ready for the UK?
News There has been little research done on the effectiveness of biometrics on a national level, though the UK Passport Agency's one trial of biometrics last year found that facial recognition technology was the most unreliable. [23 Feb 2006]
Lords defeat government over ID cards watchdog
News See silicon.com's ongoing award-winning ID Cards on Trial campaign for all the latest developments on the government's controversial proposals. The report stage of the ID cards bill in the House of Lords was completed on Monday with peers voting... [31 Jan 2006]
Lords leave ID cards bill in tatters
News Follow all the latest news and analysis on the ID cards bill in silicon.com's ID Cards on Trial campaign The House of Lords has dealt another massive blow to the government's ID cards bill by voting against making it compulsory for people to have... [24 Jan 2006]
silicon.com wins online business journalism award
News The Work Foundation (formerly the Industrial Society) WorkWorld awards, sponsored by Amec, celebrate excellence in print, broadcast and online journalism on subjects of work, business, management and economics.silicon.com was nominated for three... [20 Jan 2006]
ID cards bill in crisis after major defeat in Lords
News During the vote on Monday evening, the proposed ID cards legislation came under fierce and sustained attack from peers, who echoed concerns raised by silicon.com's ID Cards on Trial campaign over the massive costs and lack of transparency... [17 Jan 2006]
ID card spending reaches £20.6m
News Atos Origin picked up just over £1m for establishing and running the UKPS biometric trial and research work into preventing duplicate enrolment. The government has revealed fresh details of the levels of spending on its controversial identity cards... [11 Oct 2005]
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