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Biometrics system for foreign students
A parliamentary committee has echoed universities’ concerns over the robustness of the biometrics system that will be used for visa applications by students. The Home Affairs Committee looked at the role of the National
Read More »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 dinner queues should put surveillance and privacy issues on the curriculum, according to university experts. An analysis
Read More »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 service. The police are seeking the ability to provide real or near-real
Read More »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’ physical characteristics, UK employers are being warned they need to think long and hard before
Read More »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 significantly to weaken passport control in the UK. Starting this summer, border guards will
Read More »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 from international travelers and send the information to the Homeland Security Department soon after the travelers
Read More »Chertoff Says Fingerprints Aren’t ‘Personal Data’
By Peter Swire | Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has badly stumbled in discussing the Bush administration’s push to create stricter identity systems. Chertoff was recently in Canada discussing, among other topics, the
Read More »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 crimes is close to passage in the Maryland General Assembly, despite fears that
Read More »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 when no crime has been committed. Gary Pugh, the DNA spokesman for the Association
Read More »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 at a growing number of businesses are starting and ending their days by
Read More »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 thousands of vulnerable children in care a happy and healthy childhood. Whether this will mean
Read More »Firms’ biometrics records ‘can be hacked’
The growing use of biometrics to identify individuals is “insecure and in need of immediate attention,” according to an IT systems company. Fujitsu Siemens said biometrics is increasingly being used in the business world
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