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EU border checks go biometric
News Biometric data would be submitted by travellers from outside the EU when applying for a visa, while those not needing a permit would be checked on arrival. The system would alert authorities if the person was recorded as... [14 Feb 2008]
FBI proposes global biometric criminal database
News The announcement of the server in the sky proposals follows the news earlier this week that the UK has completed a system to check the fingerprints of every visa applicant. F is for Facial recognition [15 Jan 2008]
Biometric fingerprint checks for UK visas
News The fingerprint database contains the records of more than one million previous visa applicants.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics The system will cover 133 countries, three-quarters of the world's population, and has... [14 Jan 2008]
UK passports face massive price hike
News The UK switched to ePassports in 2006 to comply with the US Visa Waiver Programme. To meet the US Visa Waiver deadline the UK's Identity and Passport Service was forced to accept a manufacturer's... [10 Oct 2007]
Crime pays - and pays very well in cyberspace
Comment They will be joined by officials from Russia and Nigeria, law enforcement agencies as well as private companies such as Microsoft, PayPal and Visa. No - but a recognition of the true scale of the problem... [07 Mar 2007]
Scots tots buy school dinners with veins
News In the future, parents may also be able to top up their kids' credit using PayPal or online Visa payment. Children at a primary school in Scotland now have a new way to pay for their school dinners - vein... [31 Oct 2006]
Biometric passports take off
News The agency also pointed out that the switchover to biometric passports means the UK has beaten the US Visa Waiver deadline, so UK travellers can still travel visa-free to the US. The new passports... [05 Oct 2006]
New work-permit rules 'will help plug UK IT skills gap'
News Most overseas IT workers will fall into the top two tiers, covering 'highly-skilled' workers - such as entrepreneurs, doctors and IT specialists - who will be able to get a visa without a firm job offer, and 'skilled'... [08 Mar 2006]
First biometric passports issued to diplomats
News By August all new passports will be ePassports, in good time for the US October visa waiver deadline, the Home Office told silicon.com. The passports feature "first generation" biometrics facial... [08 Nov 2005]
Symantec secures WholeSecurity
News Its customers include Deutsche Bank, eBay and Visa, according to the company's website. In the past, detection software has typically used signatures, or recognition of specific threats. Symantec has... [23 Sep 2005]
Singapore pushes biometric uptake
News The island-state plans to introduce biometric passports - incorporating data of travellers' facial features and fingerprints - by October this year in a bid to remain on the United State's Visa Waiver Program. [31 Mar 2005]
Fingerprints, iris recognition and tagging 'to cut immigration'
News In a move designed to raise the political stakes on the issue of immigration, Home Secretary Charles Clarke announced today that all visa applicants will be fingerprinted once they arrive at UK ports of entry. [07 Feb 2005]
Leader: Biometrics will march onwards
Leader The US authorities are demanding certain people visiting that country don't just present a passport and visa but have their photo taken and fingerprint digitally recorded on entry. From those Europeans who travel there... [06 Jan 2004]
US and Europe get chummy over high-tech passport
News From October 2004, individuals visiting the US from a list of designated countries will need to have biometric passport to enter the country or else have previously applied for a visa - a requirement most have escaped so... [30 Oct 2003]
Biometric health and passport IDs head for Europe
News Additionally, a new EU passport containing biometric data about its holder has been pencilled in for introduction in 2005, a few months after the US makes biometric passports for non visa-holders compulsory. [23 Oct 2003]
