Friday, April 13, 2012

Friday Biometrics News Roundup

Friday lightning round...

Conservative Think Tank: DHS Must Ink Information Agreements With Visa Waiver Nations (Homeland Security Today)

South Africa: Fighting Child Trafficking with Iris Biometrics (Independent Online)

UID will enable rural transformation (rediff)

Nigeria: Ghost Workers in Zamfara State (Vanguard)

Chaos at Birmingham Airport (Birmingham Post)
(The "60 border agents for £9 million" story sure has legs despite the fact that it doesn't pass the smell test)

Biometric identification working to catch foreign spies, criminals & terrorists (Examiner)


...and blog highlights from a busy week...


How UID Delivers the Goods

EU, Facebook, FaceRec & Consent

A Collection of Mobile Biometrics Posts inspired by the excellent Biometric Chat hosted by M2SYS (transcript here).