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Biometrics to fast track 'trusted' travellers
News Fingerprint, iris and facial recognition technology will be used to speed up frequent travellers' journeys through immigration control, as part of a UK-US agreement for a fast-travel option for trusted travellers going between the countries. [03 Jul 2008]
Warning: ID cards face fingerprint errors
News The £4.4bn National Identity Scheme's (NIS) preference for relying on fingerprint and facial recognition biometrics exposes the system to error, according to the independent Biometrics Assurance Group (BAG). [20 Jun 2008]
Name that tune...the rise of Shazam
Comment Company CEO Andrew Fisher explains: "We cut up a song into slices and look at the vocal performance and the instruments, and it's a sound wave… At any point in the song you've got peaks and troughs… It's a unique fingerprint. [12 Jun 2008]
Fingerprints analysed on the beat
News The project, called Lantern, is intended to examine how time can be saved by officers trying to establish the identity of persons stopped on the street by enabling fingerprint and number plate checks out on the beat. [11 Jun 2008]
Heathrow 'temporarily delays' fingerprint checks
News Plans to introduce biometric fingerprint checks for domestic passengers travelling through Heathrow Airport have been delayed after the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) raised privacy concerns about the system.silicon.com's A to Z of... [26 Mar 2008]
EU border checks go biometric
News From 2009, all EU passports will feature a digital fingerprint and photograph and, from 2011 non-EU citizens who apply for a visa will have to give their biometric details. F is for Facial recognition [14 Feb 2008]
Biometric fingerprint checks for UK visas
News All applicants for visas to enter the UK will face biometric fingerprint checks from the end of this month. The fingerprint database contains the records of more than one million previous visa applicants.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics [14 Jan 2008]
Clothing recognition tech nabs armed robber
Case Study However, in one of the robberies, one of the individuals discarded a piece of paper from which the police were able to recover a fingerprint. Similar clothes were taken from the suspect's home, after police had established through the fingerprint... [13 Dec 2007]
Can biometrics secure the public's data?
Comment Fingerprint or iris recognition is being used at some organisations to enable employees to log on to the network, thus ensuring only authorised employees can access certain parts of the network. There are numerous biometrics technologies, including... [23 Nov 2007]
UK passports face massive price hike
News The report stated: "Larger capacity chips will be needed to hold the basic data and fingerprint image and more locations and additional staff will be needed to collect biometric data from adult applicants. [10 Oct 2007]
Improved Fingerprint Matching by Distortion Removal
White Paper Fingerprint recognition is a well-researched problem, and there are several highly accurate systems commercially available. However, this biometric technology still suffers from problems with the handling of bad quality prints. [31 Aug 2007]
ID cards: The bidding war begins
News Suppliers will be required to "design, build, deploy and service" the projects - which will include an overhaul of the Immigration and Asylum Fingerprint System - as well as offer business process and IT outsourcing. [09 Aug 2007]
Schools get lessons on biometric tech
News Biometric tech can take the form of fingerprint, retina, iris pattern, voice and even face shape recognition. Fingerprint recognition is already used in a number of schools for a range of uses such as cashless catering where meals are paid for in... [25 Jul 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. The manual check before security is then replaced by an... [20 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Chip and PIN
Cheat Sheet A number of other technologies were examined to cut down on fraud, including putting photos on cards as well as biometric solutions such as fingerprint and iris scanning and voice recognition. What is it? [13 Jun 2007]
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