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RSS biometric airportBiometric airport security flies high with passengers
News Iris scanning isn't the only UK airport biometric tech to get off the ground. But some sided with the 37 per cent of the silicon.com poll respondents who were unhappy with the biometric... [27 Jun 2007]
Biometric airport security gets thumbs-up
News Air travellers have backed biometric security checks after a four-month trial of the passenger screening technology at London's Heathrow airport. The manual check before security is then replaced by an... [20 Jun 2007]
Manchester Airport begins biometric ID trial
News Manchester Airport has begun a six-month trial of biometric face recognition technology that will scan passengers and use automatic gates in an attempt to tighten border security and speed up immigration... [20 Aug 2008]
German airport begins biometric checking
News Many put into effect or looked into secondary security checks such as card readers and biometric devices but civil libertarians and privacy advocates decry such experiments as invasive. It must be guaranteed that the... [16 Feb 2004]
Birmingham Airport launches biometric security
News Birmingham Airport has launched a security system based on biometric technology. He added that iris-scanning is the "most reliable biometric" - and is about six orders of magnitude more... [06 Feb 2007]
Iris-scanning system lands at Manchester Airport
News Iris recognition-based biometric technology has now been rolled out at Manchester Airport. This biometric technology works by photographing a passenger's iris patterns and storing the... [13 Apr 2006]
Photos: Biometric security comes to Heathrow
Photo The miSense trial at London's Heathrow Airport will use biometric fingerprint and iris scans to screen air passengers on selected Emirates and Cathay Pacific flights to and from Dubai and Hong Kong. The... [06 Dec 2006]
Biometrics wing their way into Gatwick
News Gatwick airport is the latest UK airport to trial biometric fingerprinting technology to boost immigration security. At present only arrivals from Sierra Leone who have been issued with... [09 Oct 2007]
Biometrics unveiled for US-bound Brits
News London City Airport is to become the first airport in Europe to deploy terminal-wide biometric security measures for all employees. The deployment marks the completion of stage one of... [07 May 2003]
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... [06 Dec 2006]
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... [26 Mar 2008]
The A to Z of biometrics
News Biometric identity systems, until a few years ago the stuff of science fiction, are now hitting the big time in the real world. B is for Behavioural biometric B is for Behavioural... [20 Jul 2006]
Positive Identification and Access Control
White Paper Working closely with the Chilean Immigration Police, Unisys is assisting with a biometric security solution that addresses forgery problems with travel documents and movement of criminals across borders all the while... [02 Jun 2007]
Biometrics the future for flying bliss?
News Sita has had general talks with the UK government about future border control systems and has been involved with developing a number of precursors to these technologies, including the miSense biometric security trial at... [21 Feb 2008]
Testing times for the e-passport
News Testing of the e-passports, which carry biometric identification technologies, will be conducted at San Francisco International Airport, as well as Changi Airport in Singapore and Sydney... [16 Jan 2006]
