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News from Infosecurity on biometrics

23 January 2008
Full-scale UK ID scheme pushed back to 2012
Accenture and BAE pull out of bidding for biometrics-based system

14 January 2008
ID cards for foreign nationals within a year, says UK
Home Office issues 10-point plan as part of e-Borders project

6 December 2007
Banks voice approval of phone biometrics
Voice Biometrics conference: BT to sell voice recognition service

9 November 2007
Home Office reveals first projects for National Identity Scheme
Government will ask for bids for biometrics and application systems next May

7 November 2007
Flawless ID doesn’t exist, says e-commerce specialist
CSI 2007: Passwords are not enough, Sanjay Bavisi tells conference

25 October 2007
Kiwis felt ID cards wouldn’t fly
RSA Europe 2007: New Zealand cites privacy in avoiding cards and splitting identity scheme

22 October 2007
Biometrics help security trump privacy
Biometrics 2007: Speaker argues that such technology “de-humanises” society

22 October 2007
VIS: A long way to go
Biometrics 2007: European visa information system planned for end of next year

22 October 2007
Biometrics industry told to challenge UK government
Biometrics 2007: Campaigner says experts should counter ministers’ claims

22 October 2007
Joining up data would speed border checks
Biometrics 2007: Speakers tell conference how security could be co-ordinated

19 October 2007
Fingerprints fail to tackle football ‘hooligans’
Biometrics 2007: trial at Dutch clubs found biometrics were easy to spoof

19 October 2007
IPS shortlists eight for UK ID cards and passports
Five will be chosen in May 2008 to establish identity system

24 August 2007
Biometrics move from banking to borders
San Jose state university’s Jim Wayman says usage, testing and technology have changed significantly in last decade

14 August 2007
Government tenders for ID scheme supplier
Programme boss James Hall sticks to £5.5 billion cost estimate

10 August 2007
Biometrics oversold, says Peter Cochrane
Former BT chief technology officer says modern biometrics are worse than those used in Second World War

31 July 2007
Home Office to roll out biometric technology to UK borders

18 May 2007
LSE calls for review of UK ID cards
Academics at the London School of Economics question scheme's £800m cost-hike

7 March 2007
ID card crackdown on immigrants
John Reid, UK Home Secretary, has today re-stated his support for a crackdown on illegal immigrants living and working in the UK

6 December 2006
Biometric trial at Heathrow
Heathrow airport has deployed a biometric system, officially launched by UK Minister for Immigration, Liam Byrne and Heathrow Airport CEO, Tony Douglas

21 October 2006
Biometric scheme reduces night-time street violence in Yeovil
A biometric system for premises licensed to sell alcohol in the English rural town of Yeovil has reduced night time street disorder, Biometrics 2006 heard

21 October 2006
Call for public trust in ID cards at Biometrics 2006
Joan Ryan, UK Parliamentary under Secretary of State at the Home Office, told delegates at Biometrics 2006 on Thursday 19 October that public trust was the most essential factor in ensuring the success of the mooted ID card scheme

17 January 2006
Suppliers face risks on UK identity scheme
The risks for IT suppliers bidding to build the UK Home Office’s biometric identity card and register were highlighted this week by a parliamentary vote demanding more financial detail on the plans.

9 December 2005
Bank of Ireland plans two-factor authentication
Bank of Ireland is planning to introduce two-factor authentication for online banking customers within the next year. The bank will most likely issue customers with security tokens, which dynamically change numbers, for each transaction. However, it is also looking at biometrics and keystroke dynamics, said the Bank’s Manager of Group Information Security.

25 November 2005
ID card scheme tackled at London University
John Daugman, Cambridge-based pioneer of iris recognition told an audience of sixty security professionals, lawyers, and privacy advocates last night: “it is Orwellian to base a political campaign on disinformation”

24 October 2005
Oracle rolls out biometric access controls
Oracle, the world’s second-largest software firm, has extended its use of biometrics to control access to buildings and rooms, following a successful deployment at its top-security data centre in Austin, Biometrics 2005 heard

21 October 2005
Fingerprints fail for under-sixes
Fingerprint-based biometric technology is impractical for children under the age of six, according to research by TNO, the Dutch statutory technology research organisation

21 October 2005
UK to take fingerprints from 2009
The UK plans to add digitized fingerprints to all its biometric passports and identity cards from 2009, and will begin producing passports with microchips, initially holding only a facial photograph, from next February

Features and analysis

Nov/Dec 2007 issue
How to dodge the red card
Fingerprints looked like the best biometric to tackle hooliganism at Dutch football grounds, but trials for TNO showed they can be subverted, find researchers Jurgen den Hartog and Ruud van Munster

Jan/Feb 2007 issue
New biometrics see right through you
Consumer banking is evolving, and banks are beginning to choose more modern and impressive ways to maximise security. But some argue that this is at the expense of their customers' privacy, reports Ron Condon

26 February 2006
UK ID scheme: blessing or backlash for biometrics?
The British House of Commons voted on 13 February by a majority of 31 to compel anyone applying for a passport also to accept an identity card and enrol on the national identity register. This is a database which will store the facial, fingerprint and iris biometrics of its subjects, along with much other information.

25 August 2005
Fingerprint biometrics — lessons from Belgium
Belgium’s ministry of the interior started collecting the fingerprints of asylum seekers in 1982, to allow checks on whether someone had already made an application.

Comment

Nov/Dec 2007 issue
Comment: Biometrics industry must challenge government
The UK government is mis-selling biometrics with its identity card scheme, argues Phil Booth of the NO2ID campaign group

Research from Elsevier's journals on biometrics

Is the UK's sleepwalk into surveillance society over? - Computer Fraud & Security - FREE!

Spectral face profiling? - Biometric Technology Today

More information on Elsevier's Biometrics Technology Today

Other links

Computer Weekly articles on biometrics

New Scientist articles on biometrics

UK Home Office identity cards web-site

No2ID opposition group to identity cards