Biometrics

Air France begins trial of biometric boarding cards
Air France begins trials with biometric cards as a replacement for boarding passes; the RFID-equipped cards store the passenger’s fingerprints and may be re-used up to 500 times
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Critic: U.K. fraud strategy "more worthy of Uzbekistan"
Business fraud costs Britain £14 billion a year; the U.K. government today launched its National Fraud Strategy, but a Cambridge professor harshly criticizes the initiative
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U.K. government flags ID cost increase
The U.K. government says that passports will account for a smaller proportion of the cost of the national identity scheme’s overall cost than previously stated; introducing and producing passports containing fingerprints will cost about 70 percent of the £4.785 million budget for the National Identity Scheme for U.K. nationals
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Scientific software proves Monica Belluci has the perfect pout
Biometric tool developed to determine which actress or model has the best lips; the formula analyzes lip proportion, size, fullness, texture, color, and shape; Italian model Monica Belluci wins — with our candidate, Scarlett Johannson, coming in a respectable second
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Iris recognition on-the-move tested at Schiphol Airport
Sarnoff Corporation promises to make it faster and easier to verify users through iris scanning technology; Schiphol Airport want to know more about it
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Terrorist Watchlist reaches 1 million entries (representing about 400,000 individuals)
U.S. Terrorist Watchlist reaches 1 million entries; since many individuals on the list have several entries owing to the different ways in which their names may be rendered, the number of individuals on the list is about 400,000
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Napolitano introduces make over top Real ID law
Napolitano, a harsh critic of the Real ID Act while governor of Arizona, adopts the “mend it, don’t end it” approach to the law
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F&S: Classifeye's solution offers strong authentication in a snapshot
Frost & Sullivan gives thumbs up to Classifeye biometric solution; Classifeye has developed a solution that uses the camera built into the mobile handset; by taking a picture of two fingers with the camera, Classifeye’s solution can biometrically authenticate the user
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U.K. ID and Passport Service brings in ad men
The debate in the United Kingdom about the merit of a national biometric ID continues, but the Identity and Passport Service is not waiting
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Job applicants especially susceptible to identity theft
Those who lose their jobs during an economic slow down tend to respond to dozens of ads in newspapers and on the Internet in search of a new job; they thus become more susceptible to identity theft scams
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L-1 wins $8.3 million U.S. Army contract for HIIDE 4.0 biometric device
HIIDE is a rugged hand-held biometric enrollment and recognition device providing real-time identification using iris, finger, and face biometrics. More than 7,500 devices are currently fielded into areas of conflict around the world
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School begins using biometric facial recognition
St. Neots Community College in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, has launched a facial recognition technology to identify students and check their attendance
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Consumer-driven face recognition changes public debate
New photo programs from Apple and Google include revolutionary face-spotting technology; trouble is, Google’s Picasa would allow tagged photos from all its Picasa users to create a global database matching photos to e-mail addresses
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AOptix shows InSight iris recognition system
Iris recognition is accepted as one of the most accurate biometric technologies, but its adoption has been slow because people feel uncomfortable pushing their faces against a glass panel and placing their eyes in a very small capture zone; InSight solves this problem
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Banking card readers inherently insecure
Hand-held bank card readers were designed to thwart online banking fraud, but cost-saving measures have resulted in design compromises that have left customers open to risk of fraud
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