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RSS fingerprintBiometric 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]
Studies of One-to-One Fingerprint Matching With Vendor SDK Matchers
White Paper NIST has conducted testing of one-to-one SDK (Software Development Kit) based COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) fingerprint matching systems to evaluate the accuracy of one-to-one matching used in the US-VISIT program. [23 Jun 2007]
Will ID cards contain DNA sample?
News The government's proposed biometric ID card and the national DNA database could eventually be combined to produce a genetic 'fingerprint' for every UK citizen, according to industry experts. The current proposal contains plans for a central... [27 Nov 2003]
Acer unveils 'Mission Impossible' laptops
News Taiwanese PC manufacturer Acer has integrated a fingerprint recognition system into its TravelMate 740 notebook to restrict access to sensitive data. The fingerprint sensor is built into the computer's palm rest, and can be configured so that a... [27 Sep 2001]
Biometric ID card trials delayed by technical problems
News The failure of fingerprint and iris-recognition equipment delayed the launch of the government's biometric ID card trials by three months, Home Secretary David Blunkett has admitted to MPs. No-one at Atos Origin was available for comment and NEC... [05 May 2004]
Heathrow to run biometric security checks
News Biometric fingerprint and iris scans will be used for screening air passengers on Emirates and Cathay Pacific flights to and from Dubai and Hong Kong as part of a trial at London's Heathrow Airport. The passenger's fingerprint is then checked again... [06 Dec 2006]
Biometric ATMs give bank cards the finger
News In the case of Bancafe, fingerprint scanning has enabled the bank to expand their customer base by offering customers the option of cardless transactions," said Grossi. Nelson Sanchez, commercial director at Bancafe, said the fingerprint technology... [29 Nov 2004]
Biometrics are key to UK ID cards
News A poll of silicon.com readers has revealed strong support for including biometrics - such as fingerprint and iris scan data - on UK ID cards. David Taylor, technology consultant at Barclaycard, who has worked closely on biometric ID verification... [19 Apr 2004]
Irish school scans fingers to beat truancy
News A school in Ireland is testing biometric fingerprint readers in a bid to stamp out truancy. Adrenalin, the company behind the software, claims it protects children's identities by only recording certain "interesting" parts of the fingerprint and... [01 Jun 2005]
The A to Z of biometrics
News As this type of laptop becomes more common it's likely that access to corporate networks will increasingly be through fingerprint verification. Hand geometry is not thought to be unique in the same way as other biometrics such as iris or... [20 Jul 2006]
The Bloor Perspective: Biometric choices, 3G+WLAN and EMC buying VMWare
Comment Biometrics have been used for many years for a variety of applications across a range of industries, including the use of fingerprint or iris scans for personal verification in the financial services industry, such as for withdrawals at ATMs. [22 Dec 2003]
Biometrics cut pub brawls by a quarter
News But despite rumours the technology is to be introduced in other UK cities, Coventry, Leeds and Sheffield city councils have all told silicon.com that fingerprint scanning is not a technology under consideration. [24 Oct 2006]
RFID With Bio-Smart Card in Linux
White Paper This paper describes the integration of fingerprint template and RF smart card for clustered network, which is designed on Linux platform and Open source technology to obtain biometrics security. Combination of smart card and biometrics has... [18 Apr 2007]
Comms giants team up to fight hackers
News The new Fingerprint Sharing Alliance hopes to help its members, which include British Telecommunications, Cisco Systems, EarthLink, MCI and NTT Communications, more effectively share information on individuals responsible for launching online... [29 Mar 2005]
Japanese man fools biometric sensor with fake finger
News A Japanese researcher has duped 11 supposedly secure biometric fingerprint sensors with homemade gelatine fingers. Tsutomu Matsumoto, a graduate student at Yokohama University, claimed that fingerprint detectors could be fooled up to 80 per cent of... [17 May 2002]
