• Biometrics system for foreign students

  A parliamentary committee has echoed universities’ concerns over the robustness of the biometrics system that will...

   

• Don’t sleepwalk into Big Brother surveillance, schools warned

  By STEPHEN NAYSMITH | Schools which employ biometric technologies such as fingerprint patterning to manage libraries or...

   

• Police to get £40m mobile fingerprinting kit

  By Mike Simons | The Home Office is preparing to spend up to £40m on the roll out of a mobile biometric identification...

   

• Biometric scans raise spectre of Big Brother workplaces

  Management-Issues | As the FBI embarks on a $1bn programme to build the world’s largest computer database of peoples’...

   

• Facial recognition is same as tossing coin

  By Geraint Bevan - NO2ID | After all the rhetoric about securing our borders, the Home Office has now announced its intent...

   

• Feds to require visitors’ fingerprints when they leave US

  AP | The Bush administration would require commercial airlines and cruise-line operators to collect information such as fingerprints...

   

• Chertoff Says Fingerprints Aren’t ‘Personal Data’

  

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    By Peter Swire | Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has badly stumbled in discussing the Bush administration’s...

   

• Bill proposes violent criminals should submit DNA

  Meg Bernhardt ANNAPOLIS — A bill to allow officers to take a sample of DNA from people charged with certain violent...

   

• UK: Mass genetic surveillance

  Richard Taylor Britain’s police want to routinely put children as young as five on the National DNA Database (NDNAD), even...

   

• Fingerprint Scanners Help Companies Track Workers

  NEW YORK (AP) ― Some workers are doing it at Dunkin’ Donuts, at Hilton hotels, even at Marine Corps bases. Employees...

   

• Children in care to get Biometric IDs

  Children in care should get school photos and passports, Ministers said yesterday, as they launched plans designed to give...

   

• Firms’ biometrics records ‘can be hacked’

  The growing use of biometrics to identify individuals is “insecure and in need of immediate attention,” according...