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'Fake fingerprint' Chinese woman fools Japan controls
Biometrics checks using finger prints can be fooled, one only has to have the money for skin surgery to some US$15,000 to fool immigration is a worth while price to pay. " A Chinese woman managed to...
Eleven Bodies From Air France Flight 447 Identified
The bodies of eleven passengers from Air France Flight 447 were identified: ten victims were Brazilian, one was a foreigner of undisclosed nationality, according to Brazilian authorities. Brazilian officials have...
created by Yuliya Talmazan | 24 wks ago | updated 24 wks ago
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441 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
Austria Starts Issuing New Fingerprint Passports
Starting today (March 30, 2009) all Austrian citizens receiving new passports will get a new, more sophisticated version with a chip that stores personal information and fingerprints. The new passport will take as much time to make as a regular one, and all children 12 years...
created by Yuliya Talmazan | 36 wks ago | updated 36 wks ago
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245 views | 2 recommendations | 2 comments
New spy gear: reflex biometric technology
This is the stuff that spy movies are made of: digital fingerprints, signature recognition, iris scanning software, and so on. These days, even common laptops can be easily equipped with a fingerprint...
created by Terri Potratz | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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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... New fingerprint method can spot drugs or explosives
This sounds like an interesting breakthrough. The marijuana and cocaine detection is important, but the usefulness in my opinion is lesser than the possibility of detecting explosives. Maybe employers or boarder... 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...Italy starts controversial plan to fingerprint Gypsies, including children
This is certain to be a controversial program. Should governments target certain groups for fingerprinting and tracking?"Italian authorities have started fingerprinting tens of thousands of Gypsies living in nomad camps across the country — adults and children alike —...Italy fingerprint plan criticised
Profiling of a community in Italy has triggered off big controversy. Italian government plans to fingerprint immigrants living in Camps. "Italy's interior minister has sparked criticism with a proposal that would see police fingerprinting all members of the Roma...Italy to fingerprint all Roma gypsy children
In a move that reeks of Mussolini's regime, Italy has decided to fingerprint around 80,000 gypsy children as they are looked upon as one of the groups being blamed for the country's crime problems. Immigrants are...Fingerprints are Forever: Forensic Watershed
British scientists have figured out how to "lift" fingerprints from metal, even after the metal has been cleaned. Or scrubbed. Or painted over.I bet that as you read the article below you will unconsciously rub...
created by Jordan Yerman | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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310 views | 7 recommendations | 2 comments
New fingerprint detection technology
The latest technology breakthrough at the University of Leicester allows for the detection of fingerprints even after they have been washed off. This technique could lead to the reopening of many cold... Heathrow fingerprint plan suspended
Heathrow's new Terminal 5 is set to open in less than 24 hours from now. But their plans to fingerprint all passengers travelling through or from the new terminal were suspended today. "
Airport operator BAA... 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...
created by Jordan Yerman | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Doublemint solves Double murder
Busted by some Doublemint gum. ‘note to self, don’t leave wads of chewing gum at murder scene’"A fingerprint and DNA on two wads of chewing gum helped capture a man suspected of murdering two gay men shot...
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