identification in news
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 week. [10 Nov 2008]
Row over high street biometrics
News The campaigner added that biometric passports, drivers' licences and other forms of identification would not be affected if ID cards were scrapped. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has insisted biometrics taken from people in... [10 Nov 2008]
Google offers limited support for OpenID
News Google has set up a sign-up form where developers can apply with their URL and OpenID identification to get access. On Wednesday Google formally announced its support as a provider for the OpenID 2.0 protocol, offering... [30 Oct 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 fingerprints taken from non-nationals... [22 Oct 2008]
ID cards on driving licences - 'law can't stop us'
News She told the conference the cards are about "tying an individual to an ID" and that once this had taken place, having a card would simplify identification for proof of age, criminal records checks, bank loan... [21 Oct 2008]
Scottish gov't enlists data privacy experts
News The government noted that suppliers of biometric technologies claim those technologies possess advantages over some other means of identification. The Scottish government has set up a group of privacy and security... [11 Sep 2008]
Google Street View cleared by UK privacy watchdog
News The spokeswoman said: "Although it is possible that in certain limited circumstances an image may allow the identification of an individual, it is clear that Google are keen to capture images of streets and not individuals. [31 Jul 2008]
Super scanners at UK airports
News Airport operator BAA confirmed it had now installed the advanced threat identification X-ray scanners at its seven airports, including Gatwick, Heathrow, and Stansted. High tech security scanners that can slash queues... [09 Jul 2008]
Hospitals roll out RFID
News A total of 110 hospitals have signed up to deploy the Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) system. Hospitals across England are keeping track of patients and equipment using RFID tagging. More than 50... [09 Jul 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 if they want to maintain the boom... [27 Jun 2008]
Insider security risks exposed
News Internal security measures such as multi-factor authentication and identification management could be used to limit Ian's activity. Vipin Samar, VP of database security at Oracle, said: "You see a whole range of people... [10 Apr 2008]
Heathrow 'temporarily delays' fingerprint checks
News In the meantime, BAA will open the new Terminal 5 using photographic identification technology already in place. Click on the links below to find out everything you'll need to know about biometric security. [26 Mar 2008]
Sheep ID tags to combat disease outbreaks
News The EID (electronic identification) tags are being brought in across Europe following the outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease in the UK in 2001. Electronic tagging of sheep will be mandatory for UK farmers from 31... [19 Dec 2007]
ID cards will be secure, insists Home Office
News Abagnale also disagreed with the more general use of biometrics as an identification tool and said: "I support biometrics for entry to buildings, access to buildings and access to computers [but] I do not support... [25 Oct 2007]
RFID tags to "revolutionise" UN relief ops?
News Embedding electronic tags in containers of food and supplies - and even in workers' identification documents - will "revolutionise" the way the United Nations doles out relief in the aftermath of the next tsunami, civil... [11 Oct 2007]
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