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Biometrics – The Future In The Palm of Your Hand!
Biometrics is the study of unchanging measurable biological characteristics that are unique to each individual - such as fingerprints or irises. Biometrics can be implemented by: companies, governments, military, border control, hospitals, banks, etc. to either verify a person's identity for something like limiting or allowing access to a certain building area, computer files, border crossings, or to identify individuals to record information about them such as with criminals, for example.
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BIOMETRICS APPLICATIONS
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Physical Access Control -
Logical Access Control - Justice / Law Enforcement
- Time and Attendance
- HealthCare Biometrics
- Border Control / Airports
- Financial and Transactional
- Biometrics Integrators and Resellers
- Mobile Biometrics
- Fingerprint and Biometrics Locks
- Consumer / Residential Biometrics
- Other Uses of Biometrics
Biometrics Characteristics
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Biometrics characteristics are often classed in two main categories: 1) Physiological Biometrics - features notably identified through the 5 senses and processed by finite calculable differences: Sight (how a person looks including things like hair & eye color, teeth, or facial features), Sound (the pitch of a person's voice), Smell (a person's odor or scent), Taste (the composition of a person's saliva - or DNA), Touch (such as fingerprints or hand-prints). 2) Behavioral Biometrics - based on the manner in which a person conducts themselves, such as: writing style, walking rhythm, typing speed, etc. In order for any of these characteristics to be used in sustained identification encryption purposes, they must meet the criteria of: reliable, unique, collectable, convenient, longevity, universal, and acceptable. |
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Currently, Biometrics is used with humans under two circumstances: Voluntarily for things like: employment, access to special services, information or protection, and Involuntarily for criminal identification and border control. As the technology improves and the implementation costs decrease, it will become more and more a part of our lives - especially in areas such as: the USA, UK, Europe, Japan, Middle East, Australia and Canada.
The Acceptance of the Use of Biometrics
The main concern for clients of biometrics devices is the accuracy of measurability, and cost effectiveness. Again, as technology improves and costs decrease, identification and verification systems will be implemental by industries who find it in their best interest (cost vs. necessity) to safeguard their data and assets.
The main concerns for the general public acceptance of the voluntary use of biometrics identification are: privacy, necessity and identity protection. Many individuals are concerned that information collected about them could be used against them such as medical records preventing them from the ability to get health or critical illness insurance. The other concern about biometrics, is the information getting into the wrong hands. This being said, when the convenience of the use of these devices is met with the confidence in their effectiveness and secure-ability they will become culturally accepted.
It is clear that biometrics will be a huge part of our future. findBiometrics.com is dedicated to giving you the most up-dated information in the Biometrics industry. Whether you are a system integrator or business looking for biometrics solutions, or a consumer looking to protect yourself and your family, you will find what you're looking for right here with one of our Biometrics Solutions and Applications.
The BTF’s role is to enable the DoD with biometric capabilities, and that can mean many things. We work in those areas of the DoD that, when enabled with biometrics, are made better. For example, it could be in an area such as base access or in the medical community, where the need to identify someone is required. My role, along with the BTF’s role, is to provide that enabling capability throughout the different mission-threads in the DoD, as well as to be a partner with the other agencies and departments of the U.S. government and our international partners in providing that capability…
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Feb-05-10 Vianix® Adds Automatic Speech Recognition Mobility Solutions with SPART®
Feb-04-10 Brigham Young University-Hawaii Selects TimeLink’s Biometric WorkPoint Leverages Existing Investment in PeopleSoft
Feb-04-10 Celerant Technology Offers Biometric Fingerprint Technology to Increase ROI
Feb-04-10 IDGA - Biometrics for National Security and Defense: The Next Steps
Feb-04-10 Precise Biometrics Shows Record Sales & Improved Margins
Feb-04-10 Unisys Awarded Contract to Provide Advanced Biometric Citizen Identification Solution to Government of Mexico
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Feature Articles
Assuring Adequate Penalties for Identity Theft; New Report Looks at Statutes, Cases, and Solutions
As biometric immigration-control programs become more widespread in the United States (including E-Verify, US-Visit, REAL ID, and the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative), the fake identities illegal aliens and criminals have traditionally used will no longer pass muster — they will increasingly have to use a real person's identity information to be "verified" under these initiatives, rather than just making up numbers and other informati
Biometric Identity a Must For Faculty Recruitment
The central government will start collecting biometric identity of teachers engaged in engineering and management institutions to curb malpractices by the faculty, an official said Sunday. "We will record biometric identity of all faculties working in technical educational institutions - all engineering and management colleges - from now on," All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) chairman S.S. Mantha told IANS.
Iris ID Systems Inc. Formed from the Spin-off of LG Electronics USA Iris Technology Division
Iris ID will continue to leverage its industry expertise, product portfolio and extensive channel program to provide solutions to its global customers. All manufacturing operations will remain in Korea, while product research, marketing and sales will be conducted in the IRIS ID Cranbury, N.J. facility.
India’s Punjab National Bank will Service Rural customers with 100,000 ATMs by 2013
“We will be targeting the countryside customer who is not yet able to gain benefit from the financial and banking services available in the country. We have offered to open zero balance and no-frills account for the convenience of such economically weak customers,” PNB Chairman and Managing Director, K R Kamath told Business Standard. He was on an official visit to Kanpur to meet large and mid-sized corporate willing to bank with PNB.
CBP Launches H2 Temporary Worker Exit Pilot Program in Arizona
The goal is to ensure that temporary workers comply with the requirement to leave the country when their work authorization expires. The program will also help secure U.S. borders more effectively and streamline existing guest worker programs.
UK Airports Introduce Fingerprint Scans
These travelers will have their fingerprints scanned at border control in addition to the normal checks. The fingerprints will then be checked against those the passenger gave when they applied for their UK visa.
ENISA clears the fog on cloud computing security
"The picture we got back from the survey was clear:” says Giles Hogben, an ENISA expert and editor of the report - “the business case for cloud computing is obvious – it’s computing on tap, available instantly, commitment-free and on-demand. But the number one issue holding many people back is security – how can I know if it’s safe to trust the cloud provider with my data and in some cases my entire business infrastructure?”
Need for Secure Identity Management and Automated Emergency Procedures to Develop Amalgamation of Physical and Logical Security
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, European Security Convergence Market, finds that the market earned revenues of euro 700.5 million in 2008 and estimates this to reach euro 2,400.2 million in 2014. The following technologies are covered in the research: smart cards, video surveillance and access control.
Privacy By Design: International Privacy Experts Urged To Bring Benefits Of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) Home
Commissioner Cavoukian's Privacy by Design concept is based on embedding privacy into the design of new technologies, business practices and infrastructure by proactively treating privacy as the default, rather than adding protection after-the-fact.
Behavioural Analysis Potentially Helpful If Anonomised
this has been going on for years – how many large retail shops measure and track footfall? It’s behavioural analysis but it is also depersonalised, so not a threat to personal liberties