Biometrics

Obama emphasizes identity management
The Obama administration is planning to promote identity management throughout the government; Howard Schmidt: “The ability to interact with the government in a very secure manner, where privacy and civil liberties are protected and you can only do that with some of the things you look at from an identity management perspective”
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Sector Report for Tuesday, 22 June 2010: Authentication / Biometrics
This report contains the following stories.
* Government plans new biometric passport rollout

* Could-based voice biometrics e-commerce platform launched

* Fingerprint Security Briefcase keeps papers safe
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Government plans new biometric passport rollout
The U.K. government is planning to begin issuing new biometric passports in the autumn; the Home Secretary said the government was looking at providing better physical security and stronger electronic security for a new design of passport to be made available from 5 October
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Could-based voice biometrics e-commerce platform launched
The industry’s first voice biometrics-driven e-commerce platform launched; the cloud-based service allows retailers instantly to set up and run their online business, processing transactions using voice biometrics to authenticate and authorize their online, and mobile-based electronic payments
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Fingerprint Security Briefcase keeps papers safe
Biometrically protected briefcase may be nice to have, but since most business people now carry sensitive information digitally, one observer thinks that a more practical solution a giant USB key
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"Zero knowledge" keeps secrets you put on the net safe
Intrigued by topics that touch on mathematics, computer science, physics and neuroscience, Professor Shafrira Goldwasser has made far-reaching contributions to keeping your data safe on-line; the solution she discovered used randomized methods of encoding, which came to underlie all future protocols for secure Internet transactions and data privacy
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Despite warnings, sensitive components of U.S. e-Passport are assembled in Thailand
Security experts have warned about the security risks for a while now, but a U.S. government contractor is still assembling a key passport component in Thailand; the Government Printing Office (GPO) inspector general has warned the GPO lacks a basic security plan for protecting blank e-Passports from theft by terrorists, foreign spies, or counterfeiters
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Aviation security milestone: TSA performs 100 percent watch-list matching for domestic flights
DHS now performs 100 percent watch list matching for domestic flights through TSA’s Secure Flight program; 99 percent of passengers will be cleared by Secure Flight to print boarding passes at home by providing their date of birth, gender and name as it appears on the government ID they plan to use when traveling when booking airline tickets
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Sector Report for Tuesday, 8 June 2010: Authentication / Biometrics
This report contains the following stories.
* Biometrics and cloud computing

* New solution offers biometric security to mobile devices

* Australia looks at facial recognition for law enforcement

* Animetrics provides facial recognition systems to Massachusetts law enforcement

* Biometric ID card contractors escape the U.K. government's axe

* Top biometrics students invited to contend for industry awards
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Biometrics and cloud computing
More and more biometric-enabled identity cards are being issued by governments; taking these cards into the streets and other remote locations will increase the demand for mobile biometric devices; these mobile devices permit a country to take biometric-based critical services directly to citizens, rather than requiring citizens to come to the technology
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New solution offers biometric security to mobile devices
Aussie company offers a biometric security solution for mobile devices; a Bio-button token is authenticated by the user, and as long as the Bio-button remains in the range of the mobile device, the authentication will remain active. This means that if the phone or mobile device is stolen, lost, or moved away from the token, the pairing is disconnected and the authentication broken
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Australia looks at facial recognition for law enforcement
Police in Victoria, a southeast state in Australia, want to use facial recognition biometrics to assist its law enforcement personnel in apprehending wanted people; experts warn that the technology is not yet advanced enough to be used as evidence in court
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Animetrics provides facial recognition systems to Massachusetts law enforcement
BI2 Technologies awarded contract to implement statewide facial recognition system in Massachusetts to identify inmates, suspects and gang members; the facial recognition technology will come from new New Hampshire-based Animetrics; BI2 Technologies’ own iris biometric technologies are already being used by state and local law enforcement agencies in forty-seven states
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Biometric ID card contractors escape the U.K. government's axe
The new U.K. government has canceled the national biometric ID scheme and said that the National Identity Register will be destroyed, but companies with large biometric contracts — CSC, with a £385 million contract, whose Application & Enrollment System will be used to issue the passports, and IBM, with a £285 million contract for the National Biometric Identity Service — should emerge relatively unscathed, as their contracts will escape the government’s axe
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Top biometrics students invited to contend for industry awards
The European Biometrics Forum holds its annual competition for budding biometric enthusiasts; the award aims to encourage on-going essential research in biometrics
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