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Biometrie

  • UK: Security body supports biometrics

    SIA uses fingerprint authentication to boost security

    The Security Industry Authority (SIA), a Home Office body that regulates the private security industry, is using biometric technology to authenticate its users.

  • UK: Visas to capture biometrics by 2008

    £10m-worth of equipment will be rolled out to 120 visa-issuing posts worldwide

    Plans for biometric visas will move ahead towards the end of the summer once proposals are signed off by ministers and approved by Parliament.

    Under the government’s five-year immigration and asylum strategy, all visa applications will include the capture of digital photograph and fingerprint information, from 2008.

  • UK:Biometric immigration control technology now live at Manchester Airport

    Frequent travellers from the UK and abroad will encounter the new IRIS biometric immigration control technology at Terminal 1 at Manchester Airport.

    The Iris Recognition Immigration System (IRIS) will enable registered passengers to enter the UK without queuing to see an immigration officer at passport control. Instead individuals signed up to the scheme will be able to walk up to an automated barrier, simply look into a camera and if the system recognises them enter the UK, leaving immigration officers to concentrate on other priorities.

  • UK:ID Cards:Serious questions raised by LSE on Lord's Second Reading day

    Current identity card bill proposals are 'too complex, technically unsafe, overly prescriptive and lack a foundation of public trust and confidence', according to a new report published by academics from the London School of Economics and Political Science yesterday.

  • UKPS issues photo reminder

    The approach of new rules on passport photos has prompted the agency to resissue its guidance to the public

    The UK Passport Service (UKPS) has reminded applicants of the need to ensure their passport photos meet the demands of facial recognition technology.

    It sent out a reminder on 5 September 2005 of requirements orginally announced in August 2004. These were drawn up in line with specifications of the International Civil Aviation Organisation and will come into force on 12 September, in advance of ePassports early next year.

  • Ukraine could start producing biometric passports in a few months

    The Ukrainian Interior Ministry predicts that Ukraine will start producing electronic biometric passports by this summer.

    "The passports will be produced in three or four months," Interior Minister Anatoliy Mohyliov said at an inter-departmental meeting in Kyiv on Wednesday.

    He said that the question remained open as to which data should be included in biometric passports.

  • Ukraine examining new biometric ID law

    A bill that provides for the introduction of biometric identification has passed first reading in Ukraine’s parliament.

    The draft law provides for the creation of a unified state demographic register, which will contain basic personal information on each citizen. Additionally, the draft stipulates issuing the documents for traveling abroad that have a built-in proximity chip with registry information on the holder.

    The new document standard is designed to help eliminate ID fraud and thus increase border security. The registry may become accessible to all the relevant European services and institutions, improving the time and cost efficiency of their work, including the shortened border control procedure.

  • Ukraine to Introduce European Standard of Biometric ID

    A bill concerning the introduction of biometric IDs in Ukraine passed the first reading in the country's parliament. Biometric documents will contribute to border security between Ukraine and the EU. The draft law provides for the creation of a unified state demographic register, which will contain basic personal information on each citizen. Additionally, the draft stipulates issuing the documents for traveling abroad that have a built-in proximity chip with registry information on the holder.

    The new document standard will help eliminate ID fraud and thus increase border security. The registry may become accessible to all the relevant European services and institutions, improving the time and cost efficiency of their work, including the shortened border control procedure.

  • Und wenn der Mensch ein Mensch ist: Holpriger Start für den ePass

    Der mit digital gespeicherten biometrischen Merkmalen ausgestattete Reisepass, von seinen Betreuern kurz ePass genannt, kann seit zwei Tagen bestellt Es gibt Menschen mit asymmetrischen Gesichtern. Menschen, bei denen die Nase schief sitzt oder der Augenabstand und die Mundgröße für Außenstehende fast schon grotesk wirken. Solche Menschen fallen aus dem Raster heraus, das die Techniker der Bundesdruckerei zu einer Foto-Mustertafel​ verdichtet haben.

  • Unique Identification Authority of India can't duplicate population data: Govt panel

    A government panel has refused to fund the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to independently collect biometric details of 1.1 billion Indians a second time, and asked the authority to stick to 200 million residents as decided earlier. The Nandan Nilekani-led UIDAI had asked for Rs 14,840 crore to enable the authority to collect biometrics – scan Iris and ten fingerprints – of residents by 2017, independent of the National Population Register (NPR).

    The UIDAI proposal would have duplicated the efforts of the census commissioner, who has already collected identity details of all residents and is in the process of collecting their biometrics. The census commissioner has the mandate, by law, to create a register of all residents and issue them cards.

  • Unique Identification Authority of India cancels 3.84 lakh bogus Aadhaar enrolments

    As of now, 4.10 lakh Aadhaar numbers have been generated under the biometric exception clause, out of which the UIDAI has directed to scrap 3.84 lakh Aadhaar numbers

    The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has cancelled 3.84 lakh Aadhaar numbers which were reportedly prepared under the biometric clause.

    According to biometric clause, the authorised enrolment agencies have been granted the permission to enrol people without taking biometrics like fingerprints and iris scan.

  • Unique Identification Authority of India gets first complaint of misuse of personal data

    The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is looking into a complaint of misuse of personal data while issuing unique 'Aadhaar' numbers to individuals, its first case of breach of privacy.

    "The contact centre of UIDAI is handling the grievances and complaints of all stakeholders. They have not received any specific complaint related to privacy concerns while collecting individual data. However, a complaint regarding misuse of address proof was received," the authority said in reply to an RTI query.

    However, it did not give details of the complaint, received this year, and the complainant.

  • Universeller Datenschutz, Biometrie und Schutz von Wählerdaten

    Datenschutz ist Menschenrecht und er soll auch als solches kodifiziert werden, am besten von den Vereinten Nationen. Mit dieser Montreux-Erklärung endete heute die 27. Internationale Konferenz der Datenschutzbeauftragten am Genfer See. Der aktuelle geopolitische Kontext und der Kampf gegen den Terrorismus, das Internet, die Biometrie, die Entwicklung invasiver Technologien oder die Entstehung von Bio-Banken machten deutlich, so die Abschlusspresseerklärung, dass das Recht auf Privatsphäre ein unantastbares Element einer modernen, demokratischen Gesellschaft sei.

  • US extends visa-waiver for UK citizens, biometrics in the wings...

    The US Department of Homeland Security yesterday announced a one-year extension of its Visa Waiver Programme (VWP) to 26 October 2006.

    VWP countries, including the UK, are required to have a biometric passport issuing system in place by 26 October 2006 in order to continue as members of the Programme and benefit from visa free travel to the US after that date.

    The date for rollout of UK biometric passports is in the period January-July 2006.

  • US law enforcement biometrics systems face upgrade opportunity, challenges

    Recent policy moves by the Executive Branch of America’s government have opened up an opportunity for biometrics capabilities, some of which are ancient by industry standards, to be finally upgraded, the ‘Facing the Future: Biometrics for Law Enforcement’ webinar, sponsored by Intel and Red Hat. The discussion, while referring regularly to police biometrics, was often more generally about the adoption of biometrics by government agencies.

    Moderated by GovExec Media President Constance Sayers, the panel included RedHat Law Enforcement Solution Advisor Brian Buzzell, GAO Director of Information Technology and Cybersecurity Kevin Walsh, and Marios Savvides, a professor of AI and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and Director of its CyLab Biometrics Center.

  • US-Behörde testet neue Generation von Iris-Scannern

    Die Heimatschutz-Behörde der USA (Department of Homeland Security) will im Oktober gemeinsam mit Einheiten der Customs and Border Protection (CBP) und dem National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) eine neue Generation von Iris-Scannern testen, die in der Lage sind, verwertbare Iris-Aufnahmen auch aus einer Distanz von bis zu zwei Metern statt wie früher wenigen Zentimetern zu liefern. Eingesetzt werden sollen die schnell arbeitenden Iris-Scanner zunächst von Grenzschützern im texanischen McAllen, um illegale Einwanderer zu erfassen. Diese werden bei einem Aufgreifen bereits heute mittels Gesichtserkennung und Fingerabdruck-Scanning biometrisch erfasst.

  • US-Haushaltspläne: Viel Geld für neue biometrische Erfassungssysteme

    Nach den Plänen von US-Präsident George W. Bush sollen im Haushaltsjahr 2007/08 hunderte von Millionen US-Dollar für die Überwachung und biometrische Erfassung von Personen ausgegeben werden, die in die Vereinigten Staaten einreisen wollen. Allein 146,2 Millionen US-Dollar sind demnach für neue Geräte vorgesehen, mit denen an den Grenzen künftig alle zehn Finger einer einreisenden Person digital eingescannt und gespeichert werden können. Bislang erfassten die Behörden lediglich die Fingerlinien der beiden Zeigefinger. Das umstrittene Flugpassagier-Screening-Programm Secure Flight soll im kommenden Jahr mit zusätzlichen 38 Millionen US-Dollar ausgestattet werden.

  • US-Heimatschutzminister: ''Gewöhnt euch an Biometrie''

    International Reisende sollten sich langsam an Fingerabdruck- und Iris-Scans gewöhnen, erklärt US-Heimatschutzminister, Michael Chertoff, auf seiner Europa-Reise. Traditionelle Sicherheitskontrollen seien nicht mehr zeitgemäß und einfach zu missbrauchen.

    "Generell kann man sagen, dass biometrische Kontrollen im internationalen Reiseverkehr in jeder Hinsicht ein Schritt vorwärts sind," so Michael Chertoff, der seit Jahresbeginn im Amt ist.

  • US-Regierung testet erste RFID-Reisepässe

    Integrierte Funkchips mit Kapazität von 72 KB

    Ab Ende Oktober dieses Jahres will die US-Regierung mit der Ausgabe von Biometrie-Reisepässen beginnen.

    Die neuen Pässe enthalten einen Funkchip für die Speicherung von persönlichen Daten und eines digitalen Bildes des Inhabers, Fingerabdrücke werden laut den letzten Beschlüssen nicht enthalten sein.

  • US-Reisepässe erhalten Funkchips

    Zur Speicherung biometrischer Daten wie Bild und Fingerprints | Ausschreibung für Zulieferer läuft | Erste Pässe sollen Ende 2004 kommen | Zweifel an Sicherheit der Daten bei Speicherung auf RFID-Chips

    Auch die USA rüsten für die Einführung von biometrischen Merkmalen in ihren Reisepässen

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