Facial drones spot passport frauds
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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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Limited trial Passengers booked on one of two flights out of Heathrow will be able to skip queues if they hand over fingerprint and other biometric data.â¦
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European Commission proposed biometric checks include face screening and automated security checks.
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Mail exposes the postal vulnerability In an investigation for the Daily Mail, security consultant Adam Laurie has demonstrated how a new UK biometric passport can be cloned without even being removed from its delivery envelope.â¦
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The EU announces proposals for biometric fingerprinting of visitors from outside the European Union arriving at its borders.
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Scientists are studying how people perceive faces in hopes of improving face-recognition systems.
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A less-than-futuristic surveillance system in San Francisco.
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Buster Bloodvessel Retinal scans, finger prints or facial recognition get most of the attention but developers across the world are quietly labouring away at alternative types of biometrics.â¦
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WholeSecurity's new software claims to identify fraudulent sites.
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Fraudulent citizen alert e-mail purports to be from the Justice Department.
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ePassport the 'most secure passport ever' The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has completed its transition to the production of ePassports, replacing the production of traditional passports with those containing a facial biometric.â¦
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Identity theft meets the global virus epidemic, enabling fraud that finally gets people's attention.
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Commissioner has a mull A little-noticed system that allows printed documents to be tracked by government agents has gotten the attention of the EU Commissioner for Justice Freedom and Security, who says the technology may violate EU human rights guarantees.â¦
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A new online method for trying to resolve travelers' problems boarding planes looks like a typical phishing attack. In 27B Stroke 6.
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All visitors from Europe and elsewhere were fingerprinted and photographed upon arrival at U.S. airports on Thursday as part of a new, heightened effort by authorities to secure American borders.
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Catching criminals could become quicker   thanks to a new fingerprint technique developed by British   scientists.
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MIT researchers develop an authentication system that's not so easily revealed to prying eyes.