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Biometrie

  • UK expanding its use of biometrics

    The British government has come to an agreement with a company to begin a seven-year biometrics program to monitor the nation's immigration.

    The Immigration and Asylum Biometric System is being installed to increase the efficiency with which immigrants can travel into the UK. The program will increase the speed of checking biometric visas, biometric residence permits and registration cards for asylum seekers, TechEye.net reports.

  • UK government outlines ID compensation

    The UK’s immigration minister Damian Green has set out details of how the government is paying £2.253 million compensation to suppliers for the cancellation of the country’s ID card scheme.

    In a letter to Labour MP and former UK Home Office Minister Meg Hillier, Green revealed the government paid Thales £2.002 million, 3M £183,000 and Cable and Wireless £68,000. In addition, the IPS is paying Thales to decommission ID card systems and securely to destroy the personal data stored in these systems. He said these payments will not exceed £400,000.

  • UK govt launches ePassport trial for teens

    Britain has launched an ePassport trial for 12-17 year olds at Glasgow and Stansted airports, saying it could extend the capability on a wider scale depending on its result.

    Currently, all UK ePassport gates can only be used by citizens aged 18 or over holding valid biometric passports.

    However, the two airports will this month allow 12-17 year olds to use the gates on a trial basis.

  • UK not ready for biometric ID cards

    Technology needs to be looked at more closely, warn analysts

    Although the Queen's Speech confirmed the government's determination to push forward with national ID cards, industry experts warned that major technological issues could derail the scheme.

  • UK Passport Service 2004-2009 business plan highlights biometric IDs

    The UK Passport Service (UKPS) yesterday published its Corporate and Business plans for 2004 to 2009, containing its long-term strategies for tackling fraud – with important relevance for e-Government and biometric ID card plans from the Home Office.

  • UK passport spec imminent

    The Government is about to release the specification for its e-passport chip.

    “We will be rolling out e-passports from the end of the year and our offices will be issuing them by the end of the second quarter next year,” said a spokesman for the Passport Office.

    Last week the German government announced Philips as the lead system provider for its e-passport project, and said it would be supplying a chip including 72kbyte of EEPROM.

  • UK schools fingerprinted over 800K children, third without parental consent - watchdog

    Schools in the UK used biometric technology to gather the fingerprints of over 800,000 pupils between 2012 and 2013, a watchdog has found. In 31 percent of schools, children were roped into giving their fingerprints without parental consent.

    Civil liberties group, Big Brother Watch, filed Freedom of Information Requests to over 3,000 schools across the UK and found that 40 percent of schools are using biometrical technology on pupils. Only 1,255 schools responded.

  • UK smart passports by 2005

    Pictures may indeed be worth a thousand words, but that conversion rate may soon no longer satisfy British customs officials planning to issue 'smart passports' by 2005.

  • UK: ID card contract to provide biometric system

    The government has renegotiated a biometric contract originally let in connection with ID cards, immigration minister Damian Green has said.

    The contract is to make it harder for criminals, people who have been deported and those who have been turned down for a visa to enter the UK. It is also expected to save £50m.

    Green said that the UK Border Agency will use the contract to build the new immigration and asylum biometric system.

  • UK: Accenture to bid for ID card contract

    Accenture has emerged as the front-runner to provide biometric technology needed to implement the UK-wide identity cards scheme, which was approved only last week.

    Ex-managing director, Ian Watmore, head of e-government and ultimately the ID project, will see his former employer bid for the biometrics contract to support the incoming cards and database.

  • UK: Auf Streife mit Fingerabdruck-Scannern

    Britische Polizei testet Einsatz mobiler Geräte

    Die britische Polizei will sich mit mobilen Scannern ausrüsten, um Fingerabdrücke schon auf der Straße abnehmen zu können. Damit sollen die Daten von Verdächtigen schneller erfasst und mit der nationalen Datenbank abgeglichen werden.

  • UK: Biometric chips in passports by 2005

    UK Passport Service plans six-month trial with systems integrator

    The UK Passport Service (UKPS) has confirmed plans to put biometric chips into passports by 2005.

  • UK: Biometric flaws mar start of ID card plan

    Procurement launched amid fresh criticism

    The government has taken the first steps in the technology procurement for its national biometric identity cards programme.

    But experts are already questioning the maturity of the biometric systems at the heart of the proposals.

    The legislation required for the scheme is not yet law, but the Home Office last week issued the first notice alerting potential suppliers, to ensure the procurement can start as soon as the bill is passed.

  • UK: Biometric ID tests to continue

    The Home Office is pressing on with its plan for ID cards despite needing to run further tests of the technology

    Home Office minister Andy Burnham said that testing would continue after the bill becomes law, which the government hopes will be by late 2005 or early 2006.

    He was speaking on 25 May 2005, the day that home secretary Charles Clarke reintroduced the ID cards bill to Parliament. Its predecessor had been lost when the previous Parliament dissolved for the general election.

  • UK: Biometric passports law involves collection of excessive personal data

    The State Service for Personal Data Protection has said that the law on a single state demographic register involves the collection of excessive information about a person, which does not comply with international law.

    "We object to collecting such a huge amount of information, some of which is not needed," the first deputy head of the service, Lilia Oleksiuk, said during a roundtable on the introduction of biometric documents in Ukraine held in Kyiv last week.

    She noted that under international law, biometric data should only be used in foreign travel passports, but not in national identity cards.

  • UK: Biometrie-ID im britischen Parlament

    Deutliche Mehrheit für die Einführung von ID-Cards mit Fingerprints bzw. Iris-Scan | Einführung für 2008 geplant

    Ein Personalausweis für alle Briten, auf dem biometrische Daten [Fingerabdrücke bzw. Iris] abgespeichert sind, hat die erste Parlamentshürde genommen. Mit deutlicher Mehrheit stimmten die Abgeordneten des Unterhauses in London am späten Montagabend in erster Lesung für den Gesetzentwurf der Regierung von Tony Blair.

  • UK: Biometrie-IDs nehmen weitere Hürde

    Das britische Unterhaus stimmte in der zweiten Lesung für die Einführung der Personalausweise mit biometrischen Daten.

    In Großbritannien soll nach über einem halben Jahrhundert wieder ein Personalausweis eingeführt werden. Das Unterhaus stimmte am Dienstag mit 314 zu 283 Stimmen in der zweiten Lesung des entsprechenden Gesetzes zu.

  • UK: Biometrische Ausweise kommen britische Bürger teuer zu stehen

    Für die geplante Einführung biometrisch gesicherter Personaldokumente in Großbritannien sollen die Bürger im Land kräftig zur Kasse gebeten werden: Im Rahmen einer Anhörung vor dem Home Affairs Select Committee teilte Innenminister David Blunkett jetzt mit, dass die Gebühren für neu ausgestellte Pässe mit biometrischen Daten wie Fingerabdrücke, Gesichtsmerkmale oder Iris-Scan ab 2007 umgerechnet 122 Euro betragen werden; bislang betrug die Antragsgebühr lediglich 60 Euro.

  • UK: Biometrischer Pass hat seinen Preis

    Die britischen Pläne für einen biometrischen Personalausweis werden den Staat bis 2008 voraussichtlich umgerechnet 922 Millionen Dollar pro Jahr kosten. In der Konsequenz wird sich der Preis für die Ausstellung eines neuen Passes wahrscheinlich mehr als verdoppeln.

  • UK: Briten testen Ausweise mit biometrischen Merkmalen

    Der United Kingdom Passport Service (UKPS) will in einem breit angelegten Feldversuch die Praxistauglichkeit von Ausweisen mit biometrischen Merkmalen testen. Während der nächsten sechs Monate sollen rund 10 000 Personen mit entsprechenden Chipkarten ausgestattet werden.
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