Sector Report for Tuesday, 22 November 2011: Biometrics | Homeland Security Newswire

Biometric scannersLA airports to install biometric scanners
Employees at three Los Angeles airports will be turning in their access badges and instead rely on biometrics to gain entry to secure areas
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Seamless biometricsDARPA developing seamlessly biometric computer identification
The Defense Department’s advanced research arm is currently seeking to develop a way to seamlessly identify computer users with biometrics in a manner that does not interrupt the flow of work
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Speedy biometricsDERMALOG sets fingerprint ID speed record
DERMALOG Identification Systems has set a new speed record for identifying fingerprints; the company’s newest system, the DERMALOG Next Generation AFIS, correctly identified an individual’s ten fingerprints in .89 seconds from a database containing more than 129 million fingerprints
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Also noted
Hitachi teams with GenKey for new finger vein readers | Facial recognition spurs privacy concerns | Gemalto wins award for best biometric ID device | Biometrics predominant in Afghanistan | Biometric voter IDs not a cure all
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