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Dienstag, 7.04.2026
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Biometrie

  • UK: County creates online services hub

    Worcestershire councils to spend £55m over 10 years to meet e-government targets

    Local authorities in Worcestershire are to spend £55m over the next 10 years to meet e-government targets.

    The 'Worcestershire Hub' project, which includes county and district councils, is aimed at improving citizen access to council services and to share county- and district-level information.

  • UK: Diplomatische Unterstützung für biometrischen Reisepass

    Während der britische Premierminister Tony Blair am Mittwochabend eine Niederlage bei der Abstimmung über die von ihm vorgebrachten Anti-Terror-Gesetze hinnehmen musste, konnte seine Regierung in einem Punkt einen kleinen Erfolg verbuchen: Die ersten elektronischen Reisepässe mit dem digital auf einem Chip gespeicherten biometrischen Gesichtsbild wurden Medienberichten zufolge an Diplomaten ausgegeben. Sie sind die offiziellen Tester, die die weltweite Akzeptanz des britischen ePasses unter Beweis stellen sollen. Ein ähnliches Programm läuft seit Juni in den USA, nur ist es hier das fliegende Personal der United Airlines, das den amerikanischen ePass testet. Länder, die wie Deutschland auf kleine Testreihen verzichten, überprüfen die Interoperabilität der ePässe im Rahmen eines InstallFest, das derzeit in Singapur stattfindet.

  • UK: FCO signs biometric passport deal

    The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is taking steps to issue UK biometric passports overseas

    It has signed a contract with technology company 3M to develop and implement the biometric passport issuance system using facial recognition.

    Passports issued overseas will include facial recognition and individual demographic data in a microchip. Structural dimensions of facial features will be taken from passport photographs and converted into unique digital data on the chip. The chip will also include the individual's demographic data including name, age and birthplace.

  • UK: FCO struggles with visa biometrics

    Fingerprint scanning for visa applicants needs improving, says an official report

    The UK Foreign Office (FCO) is facing "technical and operational" difficulties in implementing its biometric visa programme, according to its latest annual report.

    The FCO is running a series of fingerprint scanning trials for visa and asylum applications to the UK which is estimated to cost £77m, the report says. Trials taking place in some areas have been run successfully.

  • UK: Foreign & Commonwealth Office signs deal to implement biometric passports

    The UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) has appointed 3M to develop, test and implement the UK's first biometric passport issuance system. The new system will use biometric technology to prevent multiple passports from being issued to the same person under different identities.

    3M will equip 104 British Embassies, Consulates and High Commissions around the world with new passport issuance systems that can identify biometric information. One in 10 British passports are issued outside of the UK and the new web-based 3M Identity Document Issuance System will ensure that these passports are as secure as those issued in the UK by the UK Passport Office.

  • UK: Government ID Card claims deflated

    Biometric data open to abuse, says EU data supervisor

    Biometric data employed for identification purposes could be misused and lead to "function creep", the European Data Protection Supervisor has warned.

    In a comment this week, the EDPS, who monitors the use of public data, said the ease with which biometric information, such as fingerprints, could be shared with other databases across the EU would leave it open to abuse.

  • UK: Heathrow startet Biometrie-Testlauf

    Am Londoner Flughafen Heathrow starten die ersten Biometrie-Testläufe. Flugpassagiere können ihre Fingerabdrücke abgeben, um beim Einchecken schneller durchzukommen. Demnächst folgen Gesichtserkennung und Iris-Scans.

    Laut dem Flughafen wird "miSense" die Passagiere mit einem "elektronischen Schlüssel" versehen, der den Passagieren das Einchecken erleichtern soll, berichtet die BBC.

  • UK: High Street stores to offer ID services

    Stores could offer a local, convenient location where people could apply for an ID card or biometric passport.

    Several organisations have already expressed interest in working with the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) to offer their customers the ability to record their fingerprints and photos in order to apply for an ID card or second generation passport.

  • UK: Home Office extols biometrics

    The government has begun a charm offensive to promote biometric technology in passports and an ID card

    The Home Office has begun its latest campaign to attract public support for its ID card proposals with a roadshow on biometric information.

    The Manchester event also marked the introduction of new UK Passport Service (UKPS) standards for e-passports coming into force from 12 September 2005.

  • UK: ID cards: can technology cope?

    The government faces a wide range of technology challenges if plans for a national identity card are to be successfully achieved.

    Many experts in biometrics say the aims outlined by the Home Secretary David Blunkett last week for the ID card scheme (Computing, 13 November) have already raised doubts over whether the system can be delivered in the form proposed.

  • UK: ID pilot inconclusive

    Black, disabled and older people had lower success rates for verification and enrolment under the biometric trial

    More work is needed to test the biometric technology proposed for the identity card scheme after lower success rates were found in enrolling and verifying black, disabled and older people, according to the results of the government's trial.

    The eight month pilot, run by the UK Passport Agency in 2004 and Atos Origin was not a technology trial, but was designed to test the processes and record "customer experience and attitude".

  • UK: Identity and Passport Service announces major anti-fraud projects

    The new Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has published plans for a major programme of anti-fraud projects that will transform people's ability to confirm identity and protect their personal details from criminals.

    The IPS Corporate and Business Plans 2006 - 16 set out the key measures the Agency is to introduce over the next ten years, as it works to set up the National Identity Scheme at the same time as enhancing the security of the British Passport and the passport issuing process. Also published today is the IPS Framework Agreement, which sets out the accountabilities, responsibilities and corporate governance between the IPS and its parent department, the Home Office, over the next five years.

  • UK: Identity Documents Bill receives Royal Assent

    The UK’s ID cards have been scrapped by the government after the Identity Documents Bill received Royal Assent.

    This means that all ID cards will now be cancelled within one month and the National Identity Register, the database which contains information of card holders, will be destroyed within two months.

    Home Office Minister Damian Green said: “The Identity Card Scheme represented the worst of government. It was intrusive, bullying, ineffective and expensive. That is why the first Home Office Bill of this Coalition Government has scrapped ID cards and the National Identity Register.”

  • UK: IT experts slam UK ID card plans

    Analyst firm joins chorus of disapproval as government puts faith in 'untested technology'

    IT industry experts today warned that the UK government's latest plans to introduce biometrics-based national ID cards rely on untested technology, and could be stymied by a growing range of technological and operational issues.

    Analyst firm Butler Group noted that the government seems determined to push forward with its plans, despite a chorus of IT and privacy objections.

  • UK: IT leaders slam ID card plans

    IT chiefs have rounded on the UK government's reintroduction of the national identity card Bill, slamming it as a project growing out of control that will end up being a "fee-fest" for suppliers.

    The UK government claims the biometric technology is robust enough despite Home Office trials showing significant levels of failure in the registration and verification of iris, fingerprint and facial recognition trials involving 10,000 citizens last year.

  • UK: LSE issues ID alternative

    Not happy with the government's ID card plans? Here's an alternative, say academics

    The London School of Economics has issued its alternative model for a "trusted identity structure" that would meet the aims of the government's ID card bill.

    The model, which is outlined in the LSE's Identity Project Report published on 27 June 2005, accepts that no system can be totally secure and allows for individual control of personal data. Along with the model, the LSE also presents a "median figure" of £14.5bn for the government's proposed scheme.

  • UK: Minister says ID technology is robust

    The UK government is confident in the technology needed for biometric national identity cards

    Home office minister Tony McNulty said that the technology would be sufficiently developed to begin implementation of the cards and a national identity register in 2008. He was speaking at a conference on the subject organised by IT industry association Intellect on 6 June 2005.

    His comment follows the publication of a report on pilot biometric enrolment, run by the UK Passport Service (UKPS) last year. The report indicates problems such as significant failure rates for verification with all the main biometrics, and in iris enrolment for black and disabled people. McNulty suggested that these problems could be overcome.

  • UK: Queen kündigt Biometrie-IDs an

    Elizabeth II. hat die Einführung der Personalausweise in ihrer Thronrede zum erneuten Amtsantritt Tony Blairs in Aussicht gestellt.

    Königin Elizabeth II. hat am Dienstag in ihrer Thronrede zu Beginn der dritten Amtszeit von Premierminister Tony Blair die Einführung von Personalausweisen [IDs] für alle Briten in Aussicht gestellt.

    Die traditionell zur Parlamentseröffnung von der Queen verlesene Rede wird von der Regierung verfasst.

  • UK: Questions remain unanswered over government's ID project

    The issues raised in Computing's three-part series on plans for ID cards have clearly struck a chord.

    This week the all-party Commons Home Affairs Committee announced an inquiry into the government's proposals for a biometric identity card and a biometric element in driving licences and passports.

  • UK: Scotland plans major developments to its fingerprinting service

    The Scottish Executive has announced an action plan to develop and improve the Scottish Fingerprint Service - and major infrastructural ICT systems for secure data sharing ought to be a key cornerstone.

    Drawn up by Deputy Chief Constable David Mulhern, interim Chief Executive of the Scottish Police Services Authority, the plan aims to ensure the service adopts the very best practice at all levels - from science and processes through to organisational culture.

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