Biometrics

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• AFP: Experts agree on proposed global privacy standards

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 523
  AFP reports on a privacy declaration from the Madrid, Spain, conference of data protection and privacy commissioners from around the world.Experts from 50 nations meeting in Madrid have reached a draft agreement on international standards for the protection of privacy and personal data, participants said on ...
  19 hours ago

• U.K. Government Announces New Proposals for DNA Retention

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  A series of proposals designed to ensure the right people are on the National DNA Database, as well as defining when people should come off has been announced by British Home Secretary Alan Johnson. DNA and the use of forensics play an essential role in fighting crime and providing justice for victims. The UK has ...
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• Homeland Security considers biometrics plan of eye scans at border

  
  PuppetGov — Authority: 569
  Washington is turning to the next item on its security agenda: eye scans.
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• DNA of terror suspects could be held for life

  
  ID in the News — Authority: 423
  Tom Whitehead writes in the Daily Telegraph: Terror suspects released without charge could have their DNA stored for life, under plans announced by the Home Office. Innocent people arrested but not charged or convicted of terror-related offences are to be treated separately to all other alleged crimes with their ...
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• Scientists unveil plant DNA barcode

  
  PuppetGov — Authority: 569
  A new way of classifying DNA looks likely to create shortcuts in many processes that are currently rather tricky.
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• Plant experts unveil DNA barcode

  
  statism watch — Authority: 489
  Flashback: IBM Building Personal DNA Reader Mark Kinver, BBC News November 10, 2009 Hundreds of experts from 50 nations are set to agree on a “DNA barcode” system that gives every plant on Earth a unique genetic fingerprint. The technology will be used in a number of ways, including identifying the ...
  2 days ago

• Events of Interest: Georgetown Law Panel on Biometrics (Nov. 10)

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 523
  The Center on National Security and the Law at Georgetown Law will hold an event today, “Biometrics and the Law.” From the site:Biometric ID systems have the capacity to automatically identify and track individuals based on stored data on their biological and behavioral characteristics, including facial features, ...
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• Webcast: “Voice Biometrics: Increased Sevice, Increased Security”

  
  Opus Research — Authority: 124
  “Voice Biometrics: Increased Sevice, Increased Security” Tuesday, November 17, 2009 (6:00 p.m. ET / 3:00 p.m. PT) Sign Up Below! Since 2007, Australia’s largest healthcare specialist ahm (Australia Health Management) has successfully managed one of the largest public-facing deployments of speaker ...
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• Verayo uses unique flaws in chips to fight counterfeiting

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 146
  One of the great problems of the chip industry is that no two chips are alike. Even when chip makers are fabricating the exact same chip product, like an Intel microprocessor, there are always minute and virtually unnoticeable differences from one chip to the next.The brilliant thing about chip startup Verayo is that ...
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• New RFID Implantable Microchip Commercial

  
  PuppetGov — Authority: 569
  VeriChip is the last Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved human-implantable radio-frequency identification (RFID) microchip.
  5 days ago

• SOFTWARE DEVELOPER JOBS-FULCRUM BIOMETRICS GURGAON

  
  VFRESHERS — Authority: 157
  Software Developer Job Openings at Gurgaon – Fulcrum BiometricsJob Title : Software DeveloperAbout Company :Fulcrum Biometrics is a leading international provider, distributor and integrator of multiple biometric identity management systems and solutions. We provide biometric identification software and hardware ...
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• Apple May Be Bringing RFID to the iPhone

  
  PuppetGov — Authority: 569
  Apple has apparently been testing prototype versions of the next generation iPhone with RFID support built-in. If true, the next iPhone hardware update could lets users interact with other RFID-enabled devices.
  6 days ago

• The Tele Scouter Translates Language on Demand, Provides Anime Jokes

  
  Gadgetreview — Authority: 607
  Oh Japan…have I told you lately that I love you? You’ve given me some of the coolest, strangest, and most downright preposterous topics to write about of all time.  And today, you’ve given me a topic that’s ALL THREE.  You’ve given me a topic that proves conclusively that you’re going insane and yet ...
  6 days ago

• teacher claims fingerprinting is ‘mark of the beast

  
  media monarchy — Authority: 479
  from threat level: A 22-year veteran kindergarten teacher in the Texas Bible Belt could lose her job for refusing, on religious grounds, to give fingerprints under a state law requiring them.The evangelical Christian, Pam McLaurin, is fighting a looming suspension, claiming that fingerprinting amounts to the “Mark ...
  6 days ago

• Extend and Pretend, Understanding The Fed, Biometric IDs and More!

  
  The 5 Min. Forecast — Authority: 121
  by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias “Extend and pretend” enters public sector… Senate bumps homebuyer credit, unemployment insurance Rob Parenteau on the Fed’s real objective: Keeping you in stocks Greg Guenthner with a big government build-up and an emerging tech… all in one! Another ...
  1 week ago

• Tel Aviv University researcher: Kids’ right-to-privacy for their genetic material needs better protection

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 523
  Tel Aviv University announces a researcher’s recent article in Science (Children and Population Biobanks, which is behind a pay wall) concerning the privacy of children’s DNA. (In July, the Washington Post had a story on the privacy of newborn children’s DNA, noting that sometimes the medical data is collected ...
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• Liberian Government Launches Biometric Passport

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  The Liberian government has launched through its Foreign Affairs ministry a new biometric passport. The new passports are consistent with the requirements of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) for Biometric Machine Readable Passports. According to the Passport Director Madam Tennema Deline, the ...
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• Op-Ed at Guardian (UK): Europe’s own surveillance state

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 523
  Stephen Booth, a research analyst at think tank Open Europe, writes about privacy and surveillance in Europe for the Guardian newspaper.As eloquently expressed in this forum before, the defence of our civil liberties is now a war on two fronts. While the UK government pushes ahead with new ways to stockpile our ...
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• Employers to take fingerprints for CRB checks

  
  ID in the News — Authority: 423
  Chris Williams writes in The Register: Private companies will take fingerprints from job applicants as part of a trial to improve the accuracy of Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) background checks. The trial, disclosed to The Register in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, will see employment agencies ...
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• Biometrics 200n

  
  Digital Identity Forum — Authority: 409
  [Dave Birch] I actually rather enjoyed my day out at Biometrics 2009 because it was an opportunity to catch up with old friends and see what the buzz is. Yes, you can have LinkedIn and Twitter , but theres still no substitute for hanging out in the coffee area at a big conference. Some of the content was, though, ...
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