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RSS fingerprints€100m Pink Panther robbers snared by fingerprints
News For Mark Branchflower, head of Interpol's fingerprint unit, it drives home the importance of its Automated Fingerprint Identification System (Afis) which holds 80,500 sets of fingerprints taken from non-nationals... [22 Oct 2008]
Fingerprints, iris recognition and tagging 'to cut immigration'
News The UK is to get its own US-VISIT-style biometric system to record the fingerprints of immigrants coming into the country, the government has announced. In a move designed to raise the political stakes on the issue of... [07 Feb 2005]
Schoolchildren's fingerprints - the assessment you must read
Comment The news that schools are taking digital fingerprints of their children and putting that information on computer databases has shocked privacy campaigners. However, the simple fact is many schools have chosen to use... [23 Jul 2002]
Biometrics: Will Digital Fingerprints, Iris Scans and Speaker Recognition Soon Replace Passwords and Personal Identification Numbers?
White Paper Examples of biometrics include iris and retina scanning, digitized fingerprints, hand geometry and speaker recognition. Biometrics is a high tech word for an old concept: how they go about recognizing one another. [15 Feb 2005]
100,000 non-UK fingerprints recorded each month
News The government is recording over 100,000 fingerprints a month from foreign nationals while overseas and applying to come to the UK. Visa applicants in 100 countries worldwide are required to provide... [17 Sep 2007]
Photos: £1,000 reward for PM's fingerprints
Photo Wild West-style wanted posters will offer a £1,000 reward for anyone capturing the fingerprints of the Prime Minister or Home Secretary. The spoof posters, seen here, offer the reward for anyone who can lawfully obtain... [07 Apr 2008]
ID scheme treads the high street for fingerprints
News The Home Office wants to use the tender process to gauge whether businesses such as post offices and banks would be interested in participating in taking fingerprints from people for the scheme, silicon.com sister site... [06 Nov 2008]
Fingerprints analysed on the beat
News The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) has extended a mobile fingerprinting trial by handing out 100 devices to a further 10 police forces.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics Click on the links below to find out everything you'll... [11 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... HMRC search costs, Vista SP1 moans and fingerprints for visas…
Comment What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. Greedy or justified? [17 Jan 2008]
Iris, fingerprints and face to be used in ID card trial
News Iris, fingerprint and facial recognition will all be tested as part of the UK Passport Service's six-month trial of biometric technology ahead of the introduction of potentially compulsory national ID cards. [08 Dec 2003]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.04.08
Round-Up Wanted: fingerprints of one unkempt, jowly, harassed-looking Scottish gentleman. Both the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary are accused of "identity theft" in the posters, which promise to make their... [11 Apr 2008]
Crime of the future - biometric spoofing?
News Watch where you leave your fingerprints - soon they could be the target of thieves looking to break into your bank account. Although biometric security systems - using fingerprints, iris scans and facial... [20 Jul 2006]
ID cards head for the high street
News The Post Office, pharmacists and photography shops are in talks to scan photos and fingerprints for ID cards. Under the plans customers will be able to use the high street outlets to scan their... [06 May 2009]
Biometric ATMs give bank cards the finger
News Bank customers in Colombia, South America now have the option of using their fingerprints to withdraw cash from ATM machines. Colombia's Bancafe Bank has partnered with technology company NCR to upgrade its ATM machines... [29 Nov 2004]
More prisons to take visitors' biometrics
News The number of UK prisons biometrically scanning the fingerprints and faces of people visiting inmates is to increase. In a written statement to parliament on Monday, Fiona Mactaggart, an under-secretary for the Home... [29 Mar 2006]
