Biometric visa program is a victim of its own success, report says
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The State Departmentâs rollout of technology to capture biometric data from visa applicants has progressed more quickly than expected and the department will meet its Sept.
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Schengen states to share visa data The European Parliament has approved draft proposals for a biometric database to prevent people who are refused a visa by one Schengen country from applying to other member states.â¦
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According to Department of Homeland Security studies, the instance of identity theft and computer fraud has doubled annually since 1999, costing Americans billions of dollars.
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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 U.S. government more ways to identify  people at home and abroad, the Washington Post reported on  Friday.
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Foreigners entering the United States in three cities were fingerprinted, photographed and subjected to background checks Monday in a test of a program that will eventually
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According to a new U.S. Department of  Homeland Security report, inadequate financing and training  have left many department officers in Saudi Arabia ill-prepared  to enforce a program intended to stop Saudi Arabia terror  suspects from receiving U.S. visas, the New York Times reported  on Friday.
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Privacy groups assailed a federal data mining program that assigns secret terrorist ratings to millions of U.S. citizens and foreigners traveling to and from the U.S.
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By Mowad, Michelle  The local biotechnology and technology industries, highly dependent on very highly skilled workers, are waiting to see if their foreign job applicants have been awarded work visas.  U.S.
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Attorney Eric J. Sinrod finds that the facts belie the general belief that ID theft is rampant. Still, victory is a way off.
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Swiss passports with digital biometric data will be made available on an experimental basis from the end of 2005, largely as a result of demands from the United States, the Swiss government said.
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The British government says that forgery of their new biometric passports is inconceivable, but a security expert has demonstrated a successful crack of the embedded RFID chip and its info. And he did it without taking the document out of its mailing envelope.
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The U.S. government's plan to use RFID chips in a proposed passport card program for U.S. citizens is drawing fire from certain groups concerned it could undermine security and privacy.
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Americans lost about $49.3 billion in  2006 to criminals who stole their identities, an 11.5 percent  decline that may reflect increased vigilance among consumers  and businesses, a study released on Thursday shows.
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UK.gov's own facebook The Passport Office has stopped 600 fraudulent passport applications using a facial recognition system it rolled out as a pilot across its fraud units last year.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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The European Union yesterday approved a European visa data system which will store biometric information like fingerprints and photos on 70 million visa-holders who pass through the EU's borderless travel zone each year.
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More than $900 million was misappropriated from ChinaÂs $37 billion social security fund in the countryÂs latest massive government fraud.