Biometrics

Growing interest in voice biometrics
U.K. financial institutions seriously consider voice recognition technology as a way to combat ID fraud; about 20 million Britons are expected to register for some form of voice ID by the end of next year
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Team developing NGI defines roles and responsibilities
Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor for the FBI’s ambitious Next Generation Identification System; team members define their contributions to the project
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Better gait recognition biometrics developed
Indian researchers say they have developed gait recognition biometrics which could help security personnel identify suspected individuals from a distance
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Biometrics market to reach $7.1 billion by 2012
Biometrics market shows a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.3 percent; fingerprint biometrics still leads the pack, with face recognition following
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Millenium Technology Prizes awarded
Prestigious technology innovation prize awarded to five recipients; amng the winners: new DNA fingerprinting technology which has revolutionized forensic science, helping identify criminals and free innocent parties worldwide
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State Department: Robust security for U.S. e-passport
Popular misconception notwithstanding, the new U.S. e-passprt are safe, says the State Department. One example: The card’s photograph cannot be removed with solvent; a laser engraving process embeds the photograph into the polycarbonate card stock, meaning that attempts to remove your picture will visibly mar the card
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U.K. ID cards: The "surveillance society" risk
MPs warn the government not to allow the new U.K. national ID scheme to turn the country into a surveillance society; a new report says the government “should collect only what is essential, to be stored only for as long as is necessary”
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HSPD-24 calls for coordinated use of biometrics among federal agencies
New directive will standardize how the federal government shares biometrics and other biographical information
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Airlines may be forced to fit antiterror cameras in seats
The EU moves across a broad front to increase air travel safety; airlines will be forced to install spy-in-the-cabin cameras and increase the use of biometrics technology for passenger identification
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Breakthrough: Reading fingerprints even after they are gone
The name is Bond, John Bond (of Leicester University, that is): Researchers at Leicester develop a fingerprints visualization technique which would allow reading a fingerprint even after the print itself has been removed; new method would allow solving decade-old unsolved cases
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Cogent's good financial report
Company’s sales of $24.6 million and profit, excluding some costs, of 16 cents share exceeded the consensus forecast for $23 million and 9 cents, and profit more than doubled from the same period a year earlier
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Upcoming UCLA extension course: Biometric Identification Technology
UCLA Extension course offers comprehensive review of major biometric technologies and issues; the course is designed for both people already in the field and for newcomers
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Precise Biometrics in SEK 2.3 million Middle East deal
Precise strengthens its already-strong position in Middle Eastern biometric markets by signing a contract to supply its200 MC combined fingerprint and smart card readers to an unnamed government
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Biometrics not yet ready for banking transactions
Security expert: Biometrics plays a role in banking and financial institutions — but until 2016 or so, it should be used mostly to add a third security factor to existing chip and PIN systems
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ID-protection ads come back to bite pitchman
Todd Davis created a company which, he claimed, offered customers an iron-clad guarantee that their identity could not be stolen; to prove his point, ads for his fraud-prevention company, LifeLock, even offered his Social Security number next to his smiling mug; trouble is, a man in Texas did succeed in stealing Davis’s identity and used it to get a loan; now customers are suing
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