Nov 30 2007
FAIRMONT — During an annual meeting Wednesday, the I-79 Development Council focused on successes in North Central West Virginia and the state and the important role of biometrics in the area.
“We have an awful lot to be thankful for along the I-79 Corridor,” Chairman Russ Lorince said during the event, held at the I-79 Technology [...]
Nov 30 2007
Deakin UniversityAustralians and Americans need to start being more aware of biometrics - fingerprint, hand or iris scans - and their potential for abuse of their privacy and civil liberties, a Deakin academic has warned.
International research carried out by Dr Nina Weerakkody from Deakin University in conjunction with colleagues in the USA and Malaysia said [...]
Nov 29 2007
VeCommerce says that reliance on personal data is a flawed and outdated concept that should be replaced
Maidenhead, 28th November 2007, VeCommerce, an expert in designing and implementing voice self-service and speaker verification solutions believes that the loss of two disks containing the personal details of 25 million UK citizens by HMRC (Her Majesty’s Revenue and [...]
Nov 28 2007
The Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Coast Guard report that their year-old biometrics-at-sea program has resulted in a nearly 50 percent reduction in the flow of illegal aliens from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic into the United States.The biometric technology allows the Coast Guard to digitally capture the fingerprints of illegal immigrants [...]
Nov 27 2007
Since HMRC lost 25 million records, public trust in the government’s introduction of ID cards is fading and alternative schemes are growing in appeal.
UK Biometrics Ltd has proposed a scheme where an individual’s biometric data would be stored on their smart card chips in their credit cards, and there would be no need for a [...]
Nov 26 2007
After the fiasco over child benefit data, questions are being asked about plans to create a national “biometrics” database of everybody’s unique markers, such as fingerprints and facial characteristics. Proponents say such a database would be a defence against crime. But critics counter that it could not guarantee security and could make matters worse.
“You are [...]
Nov 24 2007
Sometimes just throwing a few long words about can make people think you know what you’re talking about. Words like “biometric”. When Alistair Darling was asked if the government will ditch ID cards in the light of this week’s data cock-up, he replied: “The key thing about identity cards is, of course, that information is [...]
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