A trial of the biometric technology to be used from 2006 in the UK's next-generation passport cards is to begin later this year in an unnamed small town. Home Secretary David Blunkett has already floated the possibility of a new national ID card...
The news will prove popular with Home Secretary David Blunkett, who announced earlier this month his intention to press on with plans for biometric ID cards for UK citizens. A poll of silicon.com readers has revealed strong support for including...
Mark Grossi, NCR’s chief technology officer, said that biometric technology is now reliable and cheap enough to be used in a banking environment. Biometric-enabled ATMs have allowed us to target completely new market segments and provide groups...
The final piece of the Department's plan to secure the ports is being rolled out later this year; giving people who access ports ID badges with biometric identification called transportation worker identification credential (Twic), he said.
Microsoft sees Tablet PCs as a possible tool for biometric logins - authentications employing things like fingerprints, retinal scans and handwriting - in place of usernames and passwords. According to Microsoft's Center for Information Work (CIW...
The new passports, which have been undergoing testing for several months and have already been issued to some US diplomats, will be equipped with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips that can transmit personal information including the name...
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