biometrics
RSS biometricsLeader: Biometrics will march onwards
Leader However, they would seem to sum up the current state of biometrics around most of the world. However, our initial point - that the march of biometrics is unstoppable - seems to be born out by what top IT... [06 Jan 2004]
Biometrics: Who's Watching You
White Paper Among the many reactions to the September 11 tragedy has been a renewed attention to biometrics. Other proposals include the use of biometrics with ID cards and in airports, e.g.video surveillance... [17 Dec 2004]
Biometrics key to future of police crime fighting
News Biometrics and a database of violent criminals and sex offenders are at the heart of the police's use of technology to fight crime over the next five years. A biometrics research and demonstration lab... [25 Jun 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Biometrics offer false hope
Comment Banks may talk of using biometrics but doing so would hardly be a foolproof means of providing secure transactions, says Martin Brampton. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that biometrics in banking is... [03 May 2005]
Biometrics: A Grand Challenge
White Paper This paper explores the fundamental roadblocks for widespread adoption of biometrics as a means of automatic person identification: effective and efficient pattern recognition; ensuring system integrity, system... [22 Sep 2006]
Biometrics cuts days off UK visa processing
News The system speeds up the process by checking a visa applicant's ID and biometrics against a database held in the UK. He said the system, provided by PA Consulting Group and Software AG, was far more efficient than... [05 Mar 2008]
Biometrics: 'More research needed'
News A senior Home Office advisor has warned that biometrics has a massive usability hurdle to overcome before systems can be rolled out. The biometrics industry is currently being driven by government... [23 Oct 2006]
Biometrics unveiled for US-bound Brits
News Firstly they will be required to present a photo ID pass to an electronic reader as they have done previously, but then they will have their fingerprint checked by a scanner from biometrics firm Daon, to confirm their... [07 May 2003]
Cheat Sheet: Biometrics
Cheat Sheet Biometrics? Not really, though there are some concerns about whether biometrics may create serious problems relating to identity theft. The financial sector is looking at biometrics as a... [20 Apr 2004]
Biometrics: When will the industry come to its senses?
Comment With public confidence in IT security at times appearing to crumble in the face of recent security blunders, the wonder of biometrics seems to have disappeared, or at least been marginalised. BioAPI is the... [30 Nov 2000]
Biometrics: Will Digital Fingerprints, Iris Scans and Speaker Recognition Soon Replace Passwords and Personal Identification Numbers?
White Paper Biometrics is a high tech word for an old concept: how they go about recognizing one another. Examples of biometrics include iris and retina scanning, digitized fingerprints, hand geometry and speaker... [15 Feb 2005]
Biometrics too unreliable, says EU data protection head
News The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Peter Hustinx has criticised governments' fondness for biometrics to identify citizens and warned greater interoperability of databases may have serious implications for... [15 Mar 2006]
Give me some skin: Biometrics get thumbs up
News Increasing numbers of Britons are familiar with the use of biometrics and by a margin of three-to-one believe it is more reliable than traditional security methods. A recent poll of predominantly private sector CIOs by... [06 Jan 2004]
CIO Jury: Biometrics and PKI on agenda for IT bosses
News Stronger security technologies such as biometrics and public key infrastructure (PKI) are at the heart of companies' future IT security plans, according to the latest silicon.com CIO Jury. Biometrics... [25 Nov 2003]
Biometrics used to keep German Olympians safe
News Eckhard van Deest, general manager of security solutions biometrics, NEC, said: "We are proud to be part of this project, because it means we can make a contribution to the security of our Olympic team in Athens. [11 Aug 2004]
