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RSS biometricBiometric ID cards 'dangerously flawed'
News A leading security expert has thrown his weight behind the privacy groups and activists campaigning against the nationwide roll-out of biometric ID cards announced by UK Home Secretary David Blunkett. [23 May 2003]
Biometric ID: 'Will work, will happen and will be popular'
News The company behind the biometric technology being used by the UK passport office says biometric IDs will happen - and they will happen with the blessing of the majority of UK citizens. NEC technology is... [28 Apr 2004]
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. B is for Behavioural biometric Click on the links below to find out everything you'll need to... [14 Jan 2008]
Biometric passport trial on the cards
News A trial of the biometric technology to be used from 2006 in the UK's next-generation passport cards is to begin later this year in an unnamed small town. In line with Civil Aviation Authority rules, the Passport Service... [27 Aug 2003]
Biometric health and passport IDs head for Europe
News EU citizens may be hit by a double whammy of electronic idenfication measures over the next two years with the introduction of health insurance ID cards across Europe and a new EU passport embedded with a wireless chip carrying... [23 Oct 2003]
Biometric passports: Sidekicks, sunglasses, smiles and scarves banned
News The directive will come into force in March 2005 in the UK and will form part of the Europe-wide drive towards biometric passports. While biometrics can use a person's fingerprints, iris or face to identify them, Europe... [12 Aug 2004]
Biometric visas get $4.4m tech boost
News The US-based biometric identity company will provide British embassies and consulates around the world with 1,385 of its livescan Guardian scanner devices. Head of procurement for UKvisas, Andrew Pestell, said the... [24 Sep 2007]
The Bloor Perspective: Biometric choices, 3G+WLAN and EMC buying VMWare
Comment However, the number of schemes - as well as the variety of different biometric identifiers in use in these schemes - will make interoperability problematic, especially if machines have to be put in place to automate the... [22 Dec 2003]
Biometric standards for ID cards unveiled
News New international standards on biometric technology have been published. Some of these standards will be used for the recording of biometric data on UK passports - and on UK ID cards if the government's... [26 Aug 2005]
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 whole process... [06 Dec 2006]
Biometric passports take off
News More that 2.5 million ePassports have been issued since the new biometric documents went into production in March. The agency also pointed out that the switchover to biometric passports means the UK has... [05 Oct 2006]
Biometric scanners to delve inside your brain
News Scanners that probe brain activity and heart rate are among the next generation of biometric security sensors being developed by the EU. Humabio stands for Human Monitoring and Authentication using... [12 May 2009]
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 automatic barrier... [20 Jun 2007]
Crime of the future - biometric spoofing?
News Although biometric security systems - using fingerprints, iris scans and facial recognition - are only just now entering the mainstream, they are likely to be common within a few years. And as soon as biometrics begin to... [20 Jul 2006]
Biometric ATMs give bank cards the finger
News Mark Grossi, NCR’s chief technology officer, said that biometric technology is now reliable and cheap enough to be used in a banking environment. Biometric-enabled ATMs have allowed us to target... [29 Nov 2004]
