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Dear readers,
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Reinier M. van der Drift
BioXS
English
FBI proposes international biometrics database
UK police are in talks with the FBI about establishing an international biometric database for tracking down the world's most wanted criminals and terrorists.
The so-called "server in the sky" database would share criminals' biometric data, such as fingerprints and iris scans, internationally.
The FBI suggested the database at a meeting of five countries — Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US — in the International Information Consortium technology group.
The UK's National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) said it was aware of the proposal and that any such system could be linked into existing law-enforcement databases such as Ident1, the UK repository of more than seven million pieces of biometric data from crime scenes, although there are no formal plans at the moment.
Integrated Security
Traditional security and risk management practices examine and confront potential threats to an organization by defining them and assigning appropriate measures and technologies to address each threat. Such classifications are often meant as stand-alone solutions to deal with specific situations and mitigate damage without impacting the organization as a whole.
Integrated security represents a different approach and involves the convergence of physical, electronic, and information technology (IT) programs with operational systems, such as building maintenance, fire and life safety, and HVAC. When properly planned, this type of coordination makes the organization better able to recover from a disruption.
Today's Facility Manager
Date: 2008-01-16 |
ogica Holdings Says It is the Only Company With Unique Biometric Technology to Thwart Online Predators
TORONTO, Jan. 15, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Logica Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB:LGHL) announced today that it believes it is the only company to currently offer a proprietary state-of-the-art biometric technology enrollment and validation system for underage users of social networking sites to help prevent sexual predators from using these sites to contact children.
Following an agreement announced yesterday with MySpace and more than 45 states to add protections and look at new technologies including age verification to prevent sexual predators and others from misusing the site, Logica intends to approach MySpace and other social networking sites with its unique solution.
Prime Newswire
Date: 2008-01-15 |
POS System: Wincor Nixdorf and DigitalPersona Partner to Deliver Innovative POS Systems to Retail Industry
Wincor Nixdorf, one of the world’s leading providers of total IT solutions for the retail and banking industries, has formed a partnership with globally-recognized biometric authentication solutions provider DigitalPersona to set new standards for POS technology.
Through this alliance, Wincor Nixdorf and DigitalPersona are able to provide the most advanced POS solutions to their respective clients by incorporating DigitalPersona’s biometric fingerprint solution into Wincor Nixdorf’s TP.net POS software platform. With this integrated solution in place, retail employees can log in and out of each shift, sign on to casher’s stations and log into back office terminals by simply scanning their finger, eliminating the need for employee badges, sign-on cards, and all hardware associated with these items – significantly reducing expenditures throughout a retail chain.
Retail Solutions Online
Date: 2008-01-20 |
Nine out of ten Belgians trust biometrics for identity verification
According to a survey conducted by Unisys in seven European countries, 89% of the Belgian interviewees find “[it is] acceptable for a trusted organization such as [a] bank, credit card provider, health care provider or governmental organization to use biometrics such as [their] voice or fingerprints to verify [their] identity”. The Belgian respondents’ primary reasons for this overwhelmingly positive attitude towards biometrics are more convenience (73%), better security (42%), higher speed of the identity verification process (45%) and privacy protection (15%).
Ranked by acceptance, Belgium is followed by France (86%), Sweden (81%), The Netherlands (73%), Germany (68%) and Italy (61%).
Two years ago, Dexia Bank of Belgium launched a speaker verification system for its private banking customers. My role in this project included general speech technology assistance to the project leader, expectation management, VUI development, technical integration of the speaker verfication engine with the application, and usability testing.
Selecting the right security system for SMEs
Security has always been a compromise between potential risk and the justification of cost. However the emphasis is starting to change from viewing what happened - CCTV - to preventing it happening – Access Control. With Health and Safety legislation together with good practice Business Continuity Planning, the protection of people, buildings and property has become a boardroom issue.
Usually physical security matters are the responsibility of the security officer or facilities manager whilst network or access control security software is the responsibility of the IT manager who has a very different set of priorities which include maintaining enough bandwidth on the system to keep it functioning efficiently. In the past this priority has not always been compatible with network based security software because of the bandwidth required to keep the systems in operation 24/7.
SecurityPark
Date: 2008-01-18 |
Austrian private hospital chain goes biometric
Barmherzige Brüder (“Merciful Brothers”), Austria’s largest private hospital organisation, is beginning to roll out a biometric fingerprinting system to control access to IT systems.
The new system will allow hospital staff to access with hospital information system (HIS) without a password.
Siemens IT Solutions and Services has installed the system at the Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Brüder in Graz, and it claims that it will be both more secure and more convenient.
Siemens IT Solutions and Services has integrated the Siemens ID Center software into the existing Citrix-based hospital system and installed PC mice with a sensor.
Users register once by placing both index fingers on the fingerprint sensor of the mouse. To subsequently log on and unlock the screen saver, or access specially protected data, users then simply tap the sensor and are logged on in less than a second.
Hospital Information Technology Europe
Date: 2008-01-18 |
BG Announces Jan. 24 Teleconference: The Intersection of Identity Fraud and Biometrics
BG's latest free teleconference: The Intersection of Identity Fraud and Biometrics, will be held Thursday, January 24th, at 1 pm ET.
The staggering costs incurred by commercial institutions, governments, and consumers as a result of identity fraud have led to an increased emphasis on secure authentication and identification solutions. As such, significant opportunities and obstacles exist for the use of biometrics in combating identity fraud.
IBG Senior Consultant Victor Lee will spend 30 minutes discussing the intersection of identity fraud and biometrics, including:
- Using biometrics to improve upon alternative identification and authentication technologies
- Fraudulent attacks on biometric systems
- System considerations and associated risk
- Biometric countermeasures to combat identity fraud
- Societal and operational challenges
Dial-in Phone Number: 303-262-2004
Audience URL: www.biometricgroup.com/webcon
eMediaWire
Date: 2008-01-18 |
Call for papers: Automated Biometric Technology and its Applications
Automated biometric technology has attracted significant attention from both academia and industry. Biometric features can be retinas, irises, fingerprints, hand geometries, signatures, audio, faces, palm prints, ears, gait, DNA, etc. Choice of biometric features depends on factors such as accuracy, robustness, sensor size and cost. Numerous theoretical and implementation advances have made automatic biometric authentication not only technically feasible, but also economically practical. Automated biometric systems have been widely used in many applications such as surveillance, digital libraries, forensic work, law enforcement, human computer intelligent interaction, and banking. For applications requiring higher levels of security, biometrics can be integrated with other authentication means such as smart cards and passwords.
This special issue is aimed at introducing novel pattern recognition techniques applied to biometric authentication and identification, state-of-the-art methods for biometric sensing, and social impacts of biometric technology. Researchers are invited to submit their original papers to this special issue. Papers of both theoretical and practical application nature are welcome. Authoritative reviews of the state of the art and directions for future research in the field are also welcome.
Inderscience news
Date: 2008-01-18 |
Security programs push forward; will 2008 be the year for biometrics?
Catherine J. Tilton,
Vice President, Standards and Emerging Technology,
Daon
This has been an interesting year for biometrics, with a number of high-profile government programs being awarded and/or deployed, both within the US and internationally.
In the US, the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) began deployment for maritime workers, the US Registered Traveler (RT) program was rolled out to numerous airports, the US-VISIT program is scheduled to begin its ten-print pilot by year end, and many anxiously await the award of the FBI’s Next Generation Identification (NGI) system this year as well.
Internationally, the EU Biometric Matching System (BMS), Japan VISIT, and UK e-Borders awards are noteworthy, and all eyes are on the UK as it moves forward on its biometrically-enabled National Identity Scheme (NIS).
Commercial sales are also up with some impressive milestones (e.g., Authentec’s 25 millionth sensor), but it's still not where we’d like to see it overall, such as being embraced by the financial sector....
SecureIDNews
Date: 2008-01-17 |
America — founded by dissenters
A billion dollars has been expended by the federal government for the FBI’s Next Generation Identification Program.
As it is currently structured, this latest invasion into personal privacy will collect biometric information on millions of Americans. Digital images of faces, personality profiles, palm prints, earlobe shapes, iris scans, DNA imprints and fingerprints will be stored in a gargantuan, underground FBI facility near the nation’s capital. In the coming years, the FBI plans to expand the program to include such information as the way people walk and talk. National ID cards will give law-enforcement agencies the means to identify people both at home and abroad. ...
Daily Planet
Date: 2008-01-17 |
Deutsch
Siemens und VOICE.TRUST entwickeln gemein¬sam Authentifizierungslösungen auf Basis der Sprachbiometrie
München, 15. Januar 2008 – Die VOICE.TRUST AG, weltweit führender Hersteller von Authentifizierungslösungen via biometrischer Sprecher¬verifikation, und die Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co. KG, Marktführer für Unternehmenskommunikationslösungen in Deutschland, werden auf dem Gebiet der biometrischen Spre¬cherauthentifizierung zusammenarbeiten. Das besagt ein eben unter¬zeichnetes Kooperationsabkommen beider Firmen. Im ersten Schritt soll die VOICE.TRUST-Technologie zum Passwort-Reset bei den welt¬weit mehr als 15.000 Mitarbeitern von Siemens Enterprise Commu¬nications eingeführt werden. Im zweiten Schritt werden die Unterneh¬men gemeinsam neue, auf Sprechererkennung basierende Anwendun¬gen für die internationalen Finanz- und Telekommunikationsmärkte entwickeln.
Pressemitteiling Webservice
Date: 2008-01-15 |
Francais
PDA/Smartphones : Toshiba se rappelle à notre bon souvenir
Le nippon a présenté deux nouveaux modèles de terminaux communicant sous Windows Mobile 6 et un original mobile/modem 3G+
Toshiba repart à la conquête du très concurrentiel marché européen du mobile. Mais le japonais n'ira pas combattre Nokia et Samsung sur leurs terres. Pas de mobiles d'entrée et de moyenne gamme dans la hotte de Toshiba mais des PDA hyper communicants sous Windows Mobile et un mobile faisant également office de clé 3G+ pour PC. Bref, Toshiba se positionne sur le segment porteur des PDA et smartphones afin de s'imposer face à HTC, Nokia N series, RIM-Blackberry, Apple ou encore Palm.
Silicon.fr
Date: 2008-01-21 |
Nederlands
Marokko voert biometrisch paspoort in
RABAT - Marokko introduceert vanaf april elektronische identiteitskaarten waarin biometrische gegevens zijn opgenomen. Marokko wil volgend jaar ook biometrische paspoorten invoeren.
Volgens een woordvoerder van het Marokkaanse ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken dinsdag voert Marokko paspoorten met biometrische kenmerken in omdat de internationale luchtvaartorganisatie ICAO dat vanaf 2015 verplicht stelt. Behalve een foto en een digitale vingerafdruk bevat de kaart ook adres, burgerlijke staat, beroep en andere persoonlijke gegevens. Marokkanen die niet in Marokko wonen, moeten bij de consulaten terecht kunnen voor vervanging van hun oude kaart.
Telegraaf
Date: 2008-01-15 |
Hoogleraar mist het debat over privacy
Rotterdam, 19 jan. Corien Prins, hoogleraar recht en informatisering in Tilburg, mist discussie over de vele ‘veiligheidsmaatregelen’ die de privacy van burgers aantasten. In Nederland, constateert ze, vinden we alles wel goed. „Het College Bescherming Persoonsgegevens faalt erin via een breed maatschappelijk debat de teloorgang van de privacy bespreekbaar te maken.”
Prins, zojuist lid geworden van de Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid (WRR), zit ook in de Commissie veiligheid en persoonlijke levenssfeer. Die commissie, onder leiding van oud-burgemeester van Utrecht Brouwer, adviseert komend najaar de ministers van Justitie en Binnenlandse Zaken over de relatie tussen veiligheidsmaatregelen en privacy.
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