Home Office, civilians all fingers and thumbs on biometrics
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UK finds old habits hard to break The government's senior biometrics advisor says that the Home Office's biometric programmes have become bogged down in the face of bureaucracy's liking for manual processes.â¦
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Virginia legislators are weighing a plan to add biometric data and radio signal emitting chips to licenses to prevent identity theft and thwart terrorists. Critics say the plan could compromise privacy and allow new varieties of fraud to flourish. By Mark Baard.
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A new airport security system relies on human judgment
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The U.K. government is proposing legislation that would create a system of ID cards with embedded biometric identifiers that everyone living in the U.K. would be required to have by 2011 or 2012.
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Manchester swaps traditional employee access cards for an iris recognition system.
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Catching criminals could become quicker   thanks to a new fingerprint technique developed by British   scientists.
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(CBS) Instead of using all ten fingers to type in your user names and passwords when you enter a secure web site or log on to your PC, Microsoft wants you to use the tip of just one finger.
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ThinkPad T42 is equipped with biometric device designed to limit access to sensitive data.
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Fujitsu's new palm-vein biometric security scanner is designed to control computer access in corporate environments.
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Germany will store digital fingerprints in addition to digital photos in passports as one of several biometric security measures.
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New facial-recognition software for handheld computers, which amounts to a portable mug book, is being field-tested by Los Angeles police. Civil liberties advocates warn privacy and accuracy are key issues.
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Terminal 1 passengers get to be lab rats Quietly on Friday, Heathrow Airport recruited quantities of involuntary lab rats to test fingerprint-based security/traffic control system planned for Terminal 5. The luckless pioneers were selected at Terminal 1, where biometrics are now being deducted from any domestic passengers wishing to visit the international lounge.â¦
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The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion  project to build the world's largest computer database of  biometrics to give the government more ways to identify people  at home and abroad, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
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What are the chances you're a terrorist? The Home Office has started testing how it might pick potential terrorists and criminals out of immigration queues by using computers that which give them risk scores generated from their personal details.â¦
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Police, camera, action! is finally to become a reality with the Home Office go-ahead today for officers in forces across England and Wales to be issued with "helmet cams".
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MICROSOFT has unveiled a new range of peripherals that include the company&#39;s first foray into biometric identification on the desktop.
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After signatures, fingerprints and iris recognition, 3-D face maps encoded onto ID cards and passports are unveiled today. The ground-breaking system of recording biometric information could be the key to our security.