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The UAE holds the largest biometric database in the world, the Emirates Identity Authority announced on Sunday.

The population register of Emirates ID has over 103 million digital fingerprints and over 15 million digital facial recognition records, which includes multiple records of each UAE resident, and digital signatures as of October 11, senior officials said.

A school in Scunthorpe has launched a biometric system that will allow students to pay for their lunches with a fingerprint scan.

The system was installed by Baysgarth School, in Barton, at the end of last term, with the aim of simplifying the payment system.

A statement issued by the school stated that the system “will completely eliminate the need for students to remember their lunch card and go through the hassle of waiting for a temporary pass”.

However, Stepanov found it difficult to say what the cost of biometric passports will be, but he expressed confidence that the price would be lower than UAH 350 announced by the EDAPS Consortium.

Most would attest that the air travel experience is anything but an exemplary one. Travelers in the high-security, post-911 era have to run a high-paced gantlet of airline flight check-in, along with baggage drop-off, security clearance and passport control. Any systems that ease such a stressful process are welcomed.

Like it or not, facial recognition is becoming hard to avoid.

Applications of the biometric tech were already is wide use before the coronavirus pandemic, ranging from contact-free payment methods to performing quick, verifiable id checks at entrance and exit points. With COVID-19 requiring extra precautionary measures to be taken when outdoors, however, many countries in Asia began exhibiting usage of biometric machines that scanned for temperature changes, and could even detect if faces were wearing masks.

ePassports, also known as “biometric passports” contain an electronic chip that is encoded with surname, given name, date of birth, place of birth and gender information. It also includes a digital picture of the bearer’s face. Signatures are not reproduced on the chip.

The Zimbabwe government believes that the introduction and mass production of the new travel document will reduce the price of the document. Currently, an ordinary Zimbabwean passport costs US$50 while other regional countries charge less than US$30.

Noch vor wenigen Jahren von den meisten als Fiktion abgetan, nimmt die Integration persönlicher Merkmale wie dem Fingerabdruck weltweit Kontur an.

Bei der Verwendung von biometrischen Methoden setzte man in Europa bisher auf Fingerabdruck-, Iris- und Gesichtserkennung. Endgültig hat sich aber noch keines dieser Verfahren durchgesetzt.

"The ministry has invited international bids for chips. The Home Ministry also has a role to play to check the credentials of the companies as security is involved in it. Once it is done, the India Security Press would be able to finalise the design," Pardesi, a joint secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, said.

Pakistan has emerged as one of the few countries in the world where 96 percent of the adult population has been registered through the most secure biometric technology, introduced by National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), the authority said on Friday.

NADRA spokeswoman said that the registration level in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was 99.9 percent, followed by Punjab, 99 percent, Gilgit-Baltistan 89 percent, Sindh and FATA, 88 percent, and Balochistan, 76 percent, against the projected population.

Brandenburgs Polizei hat begonnen sich vom klassischen ‚geschwärzten Fingerabdruck' der Straftäter zu verabschieden. Die Ablösung der aus Krimis bekannten Glasplatte, Druckerfarbe und Gummiwalze heißt ‚Livescanner'. ‚ED-DI', der ‚Erkennungsdienst digital' öffnet landesweit zunächst in 15 Polizeidienststellen die Tür zum digitalen Zeitalter bei den zeitaufwendigen Maßnahmen zur erkennungsdienstlichen Behandlung und Identitätsfeststellung von Straftätern. Innenminister Jörg Schönbohm bezeichnete die jetzige Praxiseinführung nach rund einjähriger Projektarbeit als „Meilenstein für die kriminalpolizeiliche Arbeit im Land". Brandenburg ist das bisher siebente Bundesland, das in die 'ED-DI'-Technologie investiert.

Die Entscheidung des US-Ministeriums für Heimatschutz, eine Kernkomponente des US-VISIT-Systems, nämlich die Fingerabdruckerfassung, entscheidend umzugestalten, wird keinesfalls nur Auswirkungen innerhalb der USA oder auf dort Einreisende haben.

"We have to cover 1.2 billion people. In the next 4 years, our target is to enroll 600 million people," he said after an event at the prestigious Doon School here.

Nilekani said only 3 million people have so far been covered since the launch of the project in September 2009.

Under the order, for the next three months the Cabinet Ministers is to prepare and submit to the President the description, specification and sample of the identification card of a citizen of Azerbaijan, to contain an electronic carrier (chip). The President ordered to place the data on the citizen’s domiciliary registration, his family status, fingerprints and other personal biometric indicators in the ID electronic carrier (chip).

Published by Transparency Market Research the report explains how the technology is used in the healthcare industry for the purpose of patient and medical staff verification and access control.

A few weeks to the Ghana biometric elections, I had the rarest privilege of working at the warehouse where the biometric devices were being assembled. Please don’t ask me how. It was a great experience, getting to work on the devices, sieving the malfunctioning ones, etc. Honestly, I was surprised to hear in the media that some of the devices had stopped working. They felt robust at the warehouse. But as you may already know, machines are machines.

After sparring with the home ministry over biometric data collection and national security concerns, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has found itself in a new row, this time with the state-owned postal network. The authority says India Post is delaying the delivery of letters informing residents of the unique identity numbers allotted to them under the government’s Aadhaar project.

The upshot is that the authority, led by Infosys Ltd co-founder Nandan Nilekani, is considering handing the job of delivering the letters to private sector firms.

More than half of India's rural population still has little or limited access to banking services, even though the government has been pushing banks to expand beyond cities and towns since 2006. Part of the problem was that banks found it financially unsustainable to set up accounts for rural citizens because of the limited transactions and money in such accounts. But the direct transfer scheme now addresses some of those concerns.