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On the front lines in Iraq, U.S. troops can scan someone's eye or finger to try to determine if he is a potential enemy or has been connected to a terror attack.
The government is expanding a test program that matches fingerprints and photographs of illegal immigrants intercepted at sea with a federal database, U.S. officials announced Wednesday.
Todd Fortier is banking on the day when ATMs will be required to confirm a user's face, voice or thumbprint before spitting out cash.
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Futronic Windows 7 Biometric Framework Driver is Signed by Microsoft Futronic Technology Company Limited, a global provider of fingerprint recognition software and hardware products, announces that its Windows Biometric Framework (WBF) Driver for its USB fingerprint scanner has successfully passed WHQL test for both 32 bit and 64 bit Windows 7, a …
Police to use mobile biometric scanners and credit card readers The Metropolitan Police wants to buy £3m of handheld units for law enforcement agencies that would be capable of capturing facial, iris and fingerprint biometrics as well as reading chips held on credit cards and passports.
Suprema Receives 2009 Frost & Sullivan Industrial Technologies Award as the Biometrics Company of the YearSuprema Inc., a leading provider of biometric technology, has been awarded the 2009 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Industrial Technologies Award as the Biometrics Company of the Year for its outstanding performance during the previous year.
Biometrics Data Is Vulnerable, Warn ExpertsIndustry forecasters say the market for biometric data-collection systems will double or triple in size over the next five years.
DHS Secretary Napolitano Announces Global Entry Expansion to 13 Additional Airports:Biometric scannersDepartment of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced the expansion of the Global Entry initiative—a U.S.
Evermedia Biometrics Signs Teaming Agreement With Leading Provider of Fingerprint TechnologiesEvermedia Biometrics Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Evermedia Group, Inc.
Arkansas Prison Systems To Use BiometricsArkansas prison guards will start using biometric identification to check themselves in and out of prisons. Several prisons already have the software in place for checking in and out visitors and its being adapted for checking in guards.
Fingerprinting Planned for Polk Students On Buses More than 4,000 students in the Polk County School District are expected to be fingerprinted next school year as part of a way to track who is on school buses, officials say. Starting this fall, students will put their thumbs on a reader as they get on and off certain buses.
Blue Passport Blues: An American Immigrant's Fight For CitizenshipDESPITE the admonition not to arrive before 7 a.m., 50 people were already lined up before the Brooklyn Courthouse reception. It was 7:05. I had flown to New York from Los Angeles the night before and was to fly back at 4:00 p.m. I was about to take my oath of citizenship.
Workers have daily smile scansJapanese railway workers face enforced "smile scans" every morning in a bid to boost their customer services, it has been claimed.
One of the Largest Wendy's(R) Franchisees, Tar Heel Capital, Reduces Fraud and Slashes Costs with DigitalPersonaDigitalPersona, Inc., a leader in fingerprint identity and authentication solutions, today announced that the largest Wendy's restaurant franchisee, Tar Heel Capital, has chosen DigitalPersona U.are.U Fingerprint Readers to combat theft.
NAB introduces voice biometrics for phone bankingNational Australia Bank (NAB) has introduced biometric voice verification for its telephone banking customers.
Australia shares very little biometric data Australia is not playing its part in international efforts to share biometric data in the fight against crime and terror, according to experts speaking at the Biometrics Institute conference held in Sydney today.Representatives from both international crime database service Inter …
The Blood and Guts of Biometric SystemsWhen biometric security devices began appearing nearly a decade ago, they were often touted as the final word in security technology. After all, stealing your password is one thing -- stealing a thumb, a retina or a voice print is a bit more of a chore.
Centrelink boosts self-service with voice biometrics Centrelink customers will be able to authenticate access to welfare services via the unique properties of their voice after a biometric voice system officially went into production today.
Researchers study ears for unbeatable biometrics The UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is funding a major new study into the possibilities of using the human ear as a biometric security system.
Analysis of knees could be used to confirm peoples identities ONCE the art of disguise would rely on a false moustache, a wig and probably a touch of make-up to foil an identification check. Today you need to beat an electronic fingerprint-analyser or a retinal scanner.
Financial Services Consortium Launches Biometrics InitiativeThe Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) announced the launch of an initiative aimed at enabling the financial services industry to gain a better understanding of how biometric technologies can be used to combat fraud across all delivery channels.
Biometrics Play New Role In Passport Technology If you have a new U.S. passport, you're holding a document that is harder to fake than ever before. And while the technology doesn't make passports absolutely secure, it is changing the way America protects its borders.
FaceKey Corp. Selected by Choice Facility Partners as Approved Provider for Security ProductsFaceKey Corporation (PINKSHEETS: FEKY), the manufacturer of biometric-based security products utilizing fingerprint and/or facial recognition, announced today that Choice Facility Partners (CFP) has awarded a contract to FaceKey, specifically for their EntryGuard™ Security Prod …
ATS Corporation Awarded $6 Million Contract with Defense Security Service ATS Corporation ("ATSC" or the "Company") (OTCBB:ATCT), a leading information technology company that delivers innovative technology solutions to government and commercial organizations, today announced the award of a new $6 million, four-year, prime contract with the Def …
State Department uses biometrics for computer access State Department officials say more than half of the roughly 45,000 users of the department's unclassified network now use cards provided through the Biometrics for Logical Access Development and Execution public key infrastructure program to log onto workstations.
Southwest Airlines pilot union spent $40K lobbyingThe Southwest Airlines Pilots' Association spent $40,000 in the fourth quarter to lobby on using biometric technology for airport security and other issues, according to a recent disclosure report.
Biometric DatabasesNoting the ease with which terrorists can fake the usual picture ID, the Department of Defense is going to use its extensive battlefield experience with biometrics to create a new form of government ID that is a lot more difficult to falsify.
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