Biometrics

Colorado school district scraps biometric student ID scheme
As more and more school districts consider using fingerprints for students to pay for lunch, check books out of the library, and verify class attendance, more and more states pass law barring the technology or requiring parental consent
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AutehnTec makes e-commerce more secure
Florida company offers a dual-fingerprints solution for e-commerce: First fingerprint to activate your cell phone, second to allow you to make purchases by phone
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Home Office awards $4.4 million for biometric visas
The U.K. Home Office has been shopping for more fingerprint scanners, and now has given a Florida company a contract for 1,385 of them
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Biometric identity system called 'success' in Iraq
U.S. Army-operated Iraqi biometric database now contains 350,000 sets of fingerprints, photos, and retina scans; U.S., Iraqi officials say it has contributed to security
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FBI boosts finger print database processing power
The FBI’s fingerprint data is growing, what with the growing use of biometric measures to authenticate identity; the agency needs more juice to manage this growing database
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Two counterfeiting detection specialists in cooperation agreement
As worries about identity theft, countrfeiting, and similar nefarious schemes grow, so is interest in technologies to thwart them
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U.S. military buys portable iris recognition devices
L-1 Identity Solutions receives $2.5 million in handheld iris-recognition device orders from U.S. military
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Bioscrypt shows FIPS 201-compliant PIV-Station
FIPS 201 program is one of the largest biometric projects to date: Nearly 3 million federal employees, 6 million state employees, and 500,000 contractors will be enrolled in the program; Bioscrypt wants a piece of the action
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Consumer biometrics falls short
A few years ago, retail biometrics had what seemed to be a very bright future, but the surprisingly rapid acceptance of contactless payment credit cards essentially usurped the speed and convenience argument away from biometrics
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Smart Card Alliance opposes RFID-based enhanced driver's licneses
DHS is cooperating with Vermont, Arizona, and Washington on an RFID-based enhanced driver’s licnese as an alternative to passports; the alliance says that “RFID technology was designed for automating the tracking of products and pallets through a supply chain, not for validating human identities”
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Fujitsu shows PC mouse-based palm vein biometrics
Fujitsu begin sales to corporation of a PC mouse which contains palm vein biometric sensor: A user holds the mouse to activate the PC and in the process his or her identity is authenticated
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Consumer-level biometrics growing
Biometrics access control is not only for nuclear power plants or bank vaults; California company offers a $200 home access control system; instruction manual recommends registering two fingers, in case one digit is inadvertabntly removed
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RCG benefits from hightened security fears, beats profit forecasts
Hong -Kong-based biometric specialist says growing security concerns helped its bottom line — and will continue to do so for a long while yet
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Biometrics can offer security beyond access control
Biometrics can offer organizations added layers of security without arousing complaints from employees — and if planned and implemented properly, can offer security beyond access control
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NIST's enhanced PIV Data Generator
NIST releases an improved version of its Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Data Generator — and it can be downloaded from the organization’s Web site
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