UK airport gets iris recognition program
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Workers moving through secure areas at Britain's Manchester Airport will be giving security the eye now that an iris-scanning biometric access control system has been installed at that facility.
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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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Contract to be awarded next week for what would be the world's largest biometrics database, the newspaper reports.
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Iris, fingers, head, shoulders, knees and toes The UK, Europe and the US are planning to belt and brace their border databases by using multiple forms of biometrics to identify people.â¦
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Cisco Systems is working with the UK government on a pilot programme to train prison inmates in information and communications technology (ICT) skills.
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LONDON - Europe is stepping up efforts to explore the use of eye scans and other biometric technology to screen airline passengers who volunteer for background security checks. The goal is to see whether airport security can be enhanced and congestion eased by encouraging frequent fliers to undergo pre-screening.
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A trial at London's Heathrow Airport will use biometric fingerprint and iris scans to screen air passengers.
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Technology will allow the addition of biometric security to cell phones, PDAs.
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Biometric bobbies West Midlands Police are trialing a system that controls police access to buildings and computer systems using a fingerprint scanner.â¦
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The world&#39;s first fully automated check-in and immigration clearance system that uses biometric recognition technology has been on trial at Singapore Changi Airport since Nov. 1.
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Plus: Heathrow airport using 'see through clothes' scanner on passengers.
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To defend against future attacks, airports may soon get new tools to help ID hidden explosives
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UK passengers to Spanish airports are advised to allow extra time to check in because of new security measures.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair announced plans Monday to introduce high-tech biometric identity cards, saying they could be a significant means of fighting terrorism.
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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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What do you mean when you say 'plan'? The agency responsible for UK's police databases has insisted there are no plans to give overseas law-enforcement agencies automated access to British biometrics. Not yet, anyway.â¦
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Police in England and Wales have begun trialling hand-held electronic fingerprint readers on motorists, the latest piece of new high-tech equipment being wielded in the fight against crime.