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Visa demos the credit card with its very own PIN pad
News Credit card company Visa showcased its latest developments in payment technology alongside announcements on field trials and payment services upgrades at the Cartes and IDentification Show in Paris last... [10 Nov 2008]
€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... [22 Oct 2008]
CIOs not taking security breaches seriously
News Mike Davies, director of identification and authentication services at VeriSign which conducted the research, said security and trust needs to be top of the agenda for online businesses... [27 Jun 2008]
Terror and regulation bigger risks than IT
News Without an appreciation of the former there will be no identification of the latter. Steve Gediking, head of IT and facilities, Independent Police Complaints Commission... [05 Jul 2007]
ID management in the security spotlight
News Okin said Accenture had successfully implemented single sign-on tokens throughout its own business, and used stronger forms of identification when necessary. However, Stuart Okin, Accenture's UK head of... [30 Apr 2007]
CIO Jury: Data overload drowning businesses
News The challenges are around effective archiving policies, plus the identification and timely access to relevant information to support business decisions. Matthew McGrory,... [23 Nov 2006]
Tech must not invade privacy, says EU data protection head
News There is a certain tendency to use [biometrics] not only in a specific context, for providing identification, but also to use it as a primary key across different databases. Think of the Computer Misuse... [07 Apr 2006]
Police get national biometric palm print database
News Pito says Ident1 will provide a "strategic platform for future biometric capabilities and a wider range of identification services". Fred Preston, director of identification at Pito, said... [23 Mar 2006]
CIO Jury: Will biometrics replace passwords and PINs?
News For more secure identification I still see the tried and trusted Secure ID token as the preferred mechanism for a while yet. Rory O'Boyle, head of IT,... [16 Feb 2006]
Police build national mugshot database
News Geoff Whitaker, Pito's head of biometrics, said the organisation is currently "in the process of assessing the ability of current face recognition technology to meet... [16 Jan 2006]
CIO Jury: IT leaders slam national ID card plans
News We badly need a national standard to link to other citizen-centric systems developments, including citizen identification and authentication, and the national ID card may as well be it. Richard Steel,... [27 May 2005]
UK voters fear election fraud
News Porter said it is worrying that no formal identification document is required when voters present themselves at a polling station and yet the same person may be required to present three forms of ID just... [30 Mar 2005]
Nokia gets smart with RFID kit
News Nokia has begun selling a product that turns one of its mobile phone models into a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag reader. Gerhard Romen, head of market developments at Nokia Ventures, denied... [23 Feb 2005]
Biometrics: Don't miss YOUR chance to grill the experts
News Carl Gohringer, head of business development at NEC, who has worked closely on a number of biometric identification systems around the world. Due to the high-volume of... [13 Aug 2004]
Biometric passports: Sidekicks, sunglasses, smiles and scarves banned
News The smile alters the position and the structure of the eyes and nose, which are the three principal identification points which... [12 Aug 2004]
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