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Facial recognition is same as tossing coin
Monday, April 28th, 2008
By Geraint Bevan - NO2ID | After all the rhetoric about securing our borders, the Home Office has now announced its intent significantly to weaken passport control in the UK. Starting this summer, border guards will gradually be replaced at UK airports by machines performing automatic facial recognition, comparing digital photographs to the data stored on passport chips.
Four years ago, the Home ...
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Feds to require visitors’ fingerprints when they leave US
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
AP |
The Bush administration would require commercial airlines and cruise-line operators to collect information such as fingerprints from international travelers and send the information to the Homeland Security Department soon after the travelers leave the country, according to a proposed rule.
The proposal, which will be announced Tuesday, will close a security gap identified after the 9/11 attacks and identify which visitors have ...
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Chertoff Says Fingerprints Aren’t ‘Personal Data’
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
By Peter Swire |
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has badly stumbled in discussing the Bush administration’s push to create stricter identity systems. Chertoff was recently in Canada discussing, among other topics, the so-called “Server in the Sky” program to share fingerprint databases among the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Australia.
In a recent briefing with Canadian press (which has yet to be picked up in ...
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Bill proposes violent criminals should submit DNA
Monday, March 31st, 2008Meg Bernhardt ANNAPOLIS -- A bill to allow officers to take a sample of DNA from people charged with certain violent crimes is close to passage in the Maryland General Assembly, despite fears that it could infringe on those people's rights. Among the critics is the NAACP. In Frederick County, NAACP chapter president Guy Djoken said he is concerned. He points to analyses of local data, including The Frederick ...
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UK: Mass genetic surveillance
Monday, March 31st, 2008Richard Taylor Britain’s police want to routinely put children as young as five on the National DNA Database (NDNAD), even when no crime has been committed. Gary Pugh, the DNA spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and director of forensic sciences at Scotland Yard, recently told the press, “The number of unsolved crimes says we are not sampling enough of the right people.” According to Pugh, ...
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Fingerprint Scanners Help Companies Track Workers
Thursday, March 27th, 2008NEW YORK (AP) ― Some workers are doing it at Dunkin' Donuts, at Hilton hotels, even at Marine Corps bases. Employees at a growing number of businesses are starting and ending their days by pressing a hand or finger to a scanner that logs the precise time of their arrival and departure—information that is automatically reflected in payroll records. Manufacturers say these biometric devices improve efficiency and streamline payroll operations. ...
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Children in care to get Biometric IDs
Thursday, March 27th, 2008Children in care should get school photos and passports, Ministers said yesterday, as they launched plans designed to give thousands of vulnerable children in care a happy and healthy childhood. Whether this will mean biometric ID cards be default for this vulnerable group remains to be seen. Biometric IDs for disabled children of those with special educational needs are often highly difficult to generate and use, for numerous complex reasons - ...
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Firms’ biometrics records ‘can be hacked’
Thursday, March 20th, 2008The growing use of biometrics to identify individuals is "insecure and in need of immediate attention," according to an IT systems company. Fujitsu Siemens said biometrics is increasingly being used in the business world to verify whether individuals really are who they say. By 2013, Fujitsu Siemens predicts biometric identity technology will be so widespread in the private sector that the number of people included would rival that of the proposed ...
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