2D Barcode Boarding Symbology Tested By The TSA :: Symblogogy

" One's next set of secure ID documents … discarded! Image Credit: upgradetravelbetter.com2D Barcode Boarding Symbology Tested By The TSAAn automatic identification barcode symbology...

Biometrics Exhibit Fails on Security

The Wellcome Trust, in showing off its new biometric ID scheme, dubbed "Medicine Now", has proven itself in need of an upgrade to pen and paper. "After being contacted by El Reg the website where the Wellcome Collection's "Medicine Now" show offers visitors the chance to view...

Biometric ID Data Bases Lead To Terror Connections :: Symblogogy

"FBI agent Paul Shannon led a team sent to Afghanistan in 2001 to fingerprint and interview foreign fighters for a database of known or suspected terrorists. Here, he takes Saddam Hussein's prints after his...

Big Brother or Internet Controversy

Biometric technologies look quite promising, but can you imagine how they will look and work in the future? LZZR shares his view on how people can be affected by future technologies."When it concerns digital...

Heathrow to Fingerprint Domestic Passengers

Update: Privacy watchdogs ae pressuring BAA to explain why they even need to fingerprint passengers in the first place. It seems that the fundamental design flaw (for which the fingerprinting scheme is...

UK Doctors and teachers will be among first issued with ID cards

Labour says, for now, noone will be required to carry ID cards in the UK. But at the same time they have taken initial steps to get the program moving."Millions of teachers, doctors, nurses and carers could soon be issued with identity cards, Jacqui Smith disclosed yesterday...

Canadians want illegal immigrants deported: poll

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorWestern Nations the world over are recently being inundated by it's citizens demanding a stop to illegal immigration and speedy deportation, especially for those...

Biometric Sensors as Clean as Doorknobs

Many people worry that biometric sensors that are used to check fingerprints and hand geometry are unsanitary and a possible health risk. However a new study has found that they contain about the same amount...

Pivo 2 And You - A Biometric Car & Driver Team Proposition :: Symblogogy

DEMO Video LINK HERE>>  "At the upcoming 40th Tokyo Motor Show (October 26 to November 11), Nissan plans to unveil its lithium-ion battery electric-powered Pivo 2 concept car. Designed for urban use,...

Border security strengthened by fingerprint technology

"A record number of fingerprints - over 100,000 a month – are now being collected from foreign nationals overseas applying to come the UK, the Government announced today. Visa applicants in 100 countries...

Fingerprint Biometric System Delivers A Sound Solution :: Symblogogy

"When most people think of a machine that scans ones finger in order to gain entry to documents or a place, they think to themselves “well, this is a little like a page scanner capturing text from a document”...

"Stalinist" powers at New Zealand airports

In New Zealand we'll do an "Uncle Sam" style check on you next time you visit us. Proposed legislation to introduce biometric security at our airports is now on the table. The purpose of it is to prevent...

Faceprints As Symbology :: Symblogogy

"Who needs a number when you have a face? That’s what we say here at Symblogogy! Symbologies such as barcodes are rapidly being replaced by other pattern identifiers found through digital conversion. As noted...

Digital Imaging Camera Conversion: Records To MP3 :: Symblogogy

"Digital imaging technology is an amazing tool. It provides biometric information to help keep us safe, it reads symbologies so that we can get information delivered to us through a camera and sofware (up to 20...

U.S. Arming, Fingerprinting Former Foes

This Blog article from Wired references Biometric developments originally highlighted here Reference: Symblogogy, 2-10-2007.   >>By Noah Shachtman - June 11, 2007 | 4:59:00 PMCategories: Biometrics,...

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