Biometric technologies

Concerns over TWIC roll-out delays
TWIC aims to provide 1.2 million U.S. port workers with forgery-proof biometric IDs; so far only 500,000 workers have been enrolled, and DHS pushed completion of enrollment from 25 September to 15 April; lawmakers are not happy
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Lumidigm develops whole-hand sensor
Developer of finger-print biometrics will offer a whole-hand sensor; new system designed to read multiple characteristics of the hand through the use of multispectral technology
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New York State offers an enhanced driver's license
New York State leads the nation in the adoption of enhanced license technology, and state residents may now apply for an enhanced driver’s license; they have an incentive to do so, because beginning 1 June 2009 U.S. citizens will have to present either a passport or an enhanced driver’s license when re-entering the U.S. from Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, and the Caribbean
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U.S. funds advanced cryptography effort by European biometric comapnies
EU gives European companies $9 million in U.S. money to develop advanced cryptography for interoperable fingerprint biometric solutions
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Profit surge boosts RCG
Biometrics and security solutions provider sees a 73 percent hike in profits during the first six months of 2008
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Snafu at biometric show
A London biometric show offered visitors the chance to view their biometrics data, and see it expressed as as a unique pretty flower diagram; trouble is, a glitch caused the biometric data of dozens of individuals to be e-mailed in a Thank You note to visitors to the show
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CaTS, PerSay collaborate on voice recognition
South African, Israeli companies collaborate on offering voice recognition security solution for e-commerce applications
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Biometrics edging toward the mainstream
Over the past few years biometric technology has developed from a new technology used in a narrow band of closed environment applications to a useful, practical, fit-for-purpose tool used across a range of industries and in a wide variety of applications
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New fingerprint analysis technique to be used to identify bomb makers
University of Leicester researchers develop new technique to identify fingerprints on metal; technique can pick up fingerprints on metal even after they have been wiped off
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Facial recognition trials at Manchester Airport
Five gates at Manchester Airport will be equipped with face recognition devices; gates can only be used with people from the United Kingdom and EU who are over 18 and hold a new-style chipped passport
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Daon rides biometric wave
Founded in 2000, Daon initially looked at selling biometrics to the financial industry as a way for people to make secure purchases; then 9/11 happened
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U.K. to spend £40 million on mobile biometrics for police
Project Midas will allow police to use fingerprint information to identify people at the scene of incidents in real or near real time
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All is not clear with the Clear "fast pass" program
TSA suspended Verified Identity Pass (VIP) from the Registered Traveler program because one of VIP’s computer, containing the personal details of 33,000 customers who had registered for the program; the lap top was found, and TSA reinstated VIP; Priva technologies, locked in a legal battle with VIP over trademarks, is unhappy
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DHS extends Accenture's US-VISIT contract
Accenture is the prime contractor for US VISIT, and has been busy upgrading biometric readers from two fingers to ten; DHS extends company contract
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U.K. national biometric ID faces another hurdle: senior citizens
Automatic biometric scanners would struggle to read elderly people’s prints because the ridges on the pads of their fingers are often not well defined
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