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Biometrics
Examples showing the adoption of biometrics technology by government for authentication and identity management purposes including biometric fingerprint identification and biometric security.
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- Biometric Passports
- Articles and resources about trends and issues in the development and implemention of biometric passports.
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- Biometrics: A - R - Archive
- Resources about the use of biometrics and how it can be used for identification and authentication purposes.
Added: 30 November 2005
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- Biometrics: S - Z - Archive
- Resources about the use of biometrics and how it can be used for identification and authentication purposes.
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- Passwords Are Passé But Biometrics Are Not Mobile
- Government Technology, April 23, 2010. "Writing in the International Journal of Electronic Marketing and Retailing, researchers from the US and Germany point out an inherent flaw in the financial industry adopting biometric logins to boost security in that the advent of mobile devices, such as netbooks, PDAs, and smart phones might make biometric logins impossible when one is on the move..."
Added: 28 April 2010;
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- Biometrics: What, Where and Why
- Biometrics are slowly gaining acceptance. Here are the most common forms and uses of biometrics and forces shaping the market, by Mary Brandel. CSO (US), 25 March 2010. "Biometrics encompasses a variety of methods for ensuring identity based on physical or behavioral traits. Conventional identifying traits include fingerprints, face topology, iris structure, hand geometry, vein structure, voice, signature and keystroke recognition. Emerging technologies analyze characteristics such as gait, odor, and ear shape. Rather than being used in isolation, biometrics systems are increasingly becoming multimodal, an approach that serves both to increase security and overcome failure-to-enroll problems..."
Added: 1 April 2010;
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- U.S., Canada will share refugee fingerprints
- CBC News, Tuesday, November 24, 2009. "The United States says it will join Canada, Australia and Britain in sharing fingerprints and other data to help authorities discern people's true identities in cracking down on asylum shopping and unlawful immigration. The program would allow governments to ferret out fraudulent refugee claimants by using fingerprinting and other methods to get details about identity, nationality, travel and immigration history..."
Added: 26 November 2009;
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- Biometrics: 3 Tips for Success
- False positives and faulty readers are common criticism of biometric security systems. But with the right plan, can they be practical in your security portfolio? by Joan Goodchild. CIO, 12 March 2009. "Biometric security systems can, at first glance, seem futuristic. In some minds, they are still the stuff of science fiction. Biometrics are often criticized as being expensive and not practical in many business settings. But at Parkview Adventist Medical Center, Chief Technology Officer Bill McQuaid can't stop crowing about the success he has seen with the facility's biometric system..."
Added: 13 March 2009;
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- Biometrics to kill airport queues and hassles?
- by Nick Heath, silicon.com. ZDNet Australia, 25 February 2008. "By 2015, biometric technology will make getting on a plane almost as easy as getting on the bus or train today, according to a leading border security expert..."
Added: 25 February 2008;
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- Biometrics registry proposed
- Standards registry would enable interagency sharing of biometrics, By William Jackson. Government Computer News, 11 February 2008. "An interagency technology council has released a draft of a registry of biometric standards that could improve sharing of data between agencies..."
Added: 13 February 2008;
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- ISO dishes up biometrics standard for banks
- by Liam Tung. ZDNet Australia, 11 February 2008. "The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has released a standard for the use of biometric authentication at financial institutions but banks are unlikely to invest in the technology..."
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- Biometrics in the Here and Now
- By Scott Moody. TechNewsWorld, Part of the ECT News Network, 10 October 2007. "Nearly $2 billion was lost in e-commerce sales in 2006 due to security concerns of U.S. adults, according to Gartner estimates. If every online purchase used some form of biometric authentication to manage the person's digital identification, only the account holder would be able to make a purchase final..."
Added: 11 October 2007;
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- E-passport security leaves something to be desired
- By William Jackson. Government Computer News, 3 August 2006. "... A number of nations have begun issuing the e-Passports, but ... access controls on many commonly used sophisticated chips leave something to be desired. Default encryption keys for one type of card are available on the Web with a littler clever searching. ..."
Added: 7 August 2006;
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- Eyes have it for access
- by Karen Dearne. AustralianIT, June 20, 2006. "Biometric systems can "make the world a safer place" and should be viewed as part of society's infrastructure, says identity management expert Bill Willis, head of ImageWare Systems of the US..."
Added: 22 June 2006;
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- Biometric systems also face cultural challenges
- Aside from technical hurdles, opinions vary on what methods are invasive, By Alice Lipowicz. Government Computer News, 12 June 2006. "For Claudio Casuccio, director of General Dynamics Corp.’s business development unit in Rome, posing for an identification card photograph is not worrisome. But ask him to offer his finger or palm for a biometric vein scan, and he won’t be as accommodating..."
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- Biometric acceptance driven by speed of ID verification
- by Michael Crawford. Computerworld, 4 May 2006. "The convenience of using biometrics for ID verification outweighs any concerns of lax security methods when using smartcards, according to a new survey. A global survey of consumer attitudes to using biometrics found a 5 percent increase in people who favour the use of biometrics as a preferred method of identity verification. Some 10 percent of individuals in the Asia-Pacific region would even prefer a chip implanted in their body..."
Added: 5 May 2006;
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- Voting by fingerprint
- Kablenet, 24 January 2002. "While the western world debates over the pros and cons of biometric IDs, an African country has used them to identify voters in a general election..."
Added: 31 October 2005;
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This category last updated: 7 May 2010
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