The government is set to use digital images and facial recognition technology when screening asylum seekers in the UK in an attempt to further clamp down on fraudulent applications. A pre-tender document seen by silicon.com said the Home Office is...
Internet banks in the UK and Europe are set to trial facial recognition technology in the New Year that will authenticate customers from their home PC instead of passwords or PIN numbers. While facial recognition technology is undoubtedly far more...
The idea of introducing a biometric identity card was on and off again more times than Elizabeth Taylor's wedding ring, with the Home Secretary feinting putting his plans on the back burner in November only to see a trial of the compulsory cards...
For example, Hewlett-Packard has embedded fingerprint readers in its iPAQ handhelds, while Japanese company Omron has equipped its mobile phones with facial recognition technology. The island-state plans to introduce biometric passports...
With the rollout of the Find database, he said, the use of facial biometrics will take on "greater importance" in policing. Police are investigating how to incorporate facial recognition software into a new national mugshot database so they can...
We have all forms of biometrics to help identify individuals - facial, hand, eye, fingerprint and voice recognition, for starters. Unless we get on the inside of the security community I suspect we will never know.