Cameroon’s elections governing body Elecam has accepted to adopt biometric registration.West Africans overwhelmingly recognize voter biometrics as a useful safeguard of democracy.
The system will be used during the next round of registration, which was announced two weeks ago on the instructions of President Paul Biya.
Opposition parties and civil society organisations have been piling pressure on Elecam to adopt the biometric system.
Travel documents are for terrorists just as important as weapons, according to the key finding from the 9/11 Commission Report. This is the reason border control systems based on biometric applications have become the solution of choice in identifying potential threats. There is also considerable emphasis on the identification of immigrants using e-Passports and e-Visas to channel biometric data to destination countries to reduce illegal immigration.
Spc. Dan Goeser, of Manilla, and Staff Sgt. Timothy Beery, of Denison, were involved in the capture of an individual who was financing local Taliban members.
Team Diesel knew the financier was coming into their area and had a license plate number for the individual’s vehicle. Beery was the truck commander of the first truck and Goeser was the gunner. They blocked the financier’s vehicle from the rear and a second truck blocked it from the front before the rest of the convoy arrived.
The financier didn’t admit to his identity, Beery stated. A biometric device was used identify the individual by scanning his fingerprints and eyes.
Berry said the financier was turned over to LTC Stephen Boesen II, the battalion commander, and in turn was turned over to the Afghan National Army.
“We were created in the image of God. God gave us our uniqueness. What the State wants to do is take something unique physical about us, our digital facial fingerprint and take it. It’s actually theirs. They’re taking something unique from us like someone taking your DNA.That's a bold statement.
"If I take a picture of you in a photograph, you buy the picture, I give you the picture, it’s your picture. I can’t go out and say do something else with that picture because that is your picture. You understand? What God gave me I don’t have the right to give to the State. Especially when in Scripture it tells me eventually my identification will be necessary to have permission by the State to basically do anything,” Hudok said. [emphasis mine]
"...we would be enrolled in a global system of identification that directly links our body, through biometrics, to our ability to buy and sell..."and
"I am not saying this is the mark of beast, I'm saying this is where I draw the line"
According to UNHCR, the official number of refugees from Cote d’Ivoire as of 16 February 2012 currently stands at 69,561 following a recount using biometric registration.The international development crowd has been among the most industrious in applying biometrics to helping the worlds most vulnerable people.
"Let’s not forget the system was originally introduced in 2004, initially as a pilot. At this time, such use of Iris technology was fairly innovative. That the footprint of the pilot was gradually extended and became a permanent system is indicative that the system was fairly well received. The fact that over 380,000 people have voluntarily enrolled (myself included) makes it difficult to argue that the system is derided.Read on at the Allevate blog.
In my opinion, the turning off of the system at these two locations is more in line with a planned phasing out of this particular solution, for some rather more mundane reasons: [...]"
Argentina’s police were recently accused of infiltrating and spying on demonstrations against the American company Kraft to collect personal information of protesters through a program called “Project X.” Security Minister Nilda Garré has denied the charges but called for an investigation, even as the chief of the national police agency, Héctor Schenone, confirmed the existence of the program in court documents.Biometric systems are never deployed in a vacuum. Argentina's political and economic history over the last thirty years has been tumultuous, to say the least.
Experts say a biometric database would make the identification of protestors much easier.
“Privacy is particularly crucial for our country since throughout our long history of social and political movements, calls for action have often taken to the streets,” says Beatriz Busaniche of Vía Libre, a local foundation that promotes freedom on the Internet. She stressed the importance of anonymity for demonstrators, “especially when they are at odds with the government.’’
Argentina and other Latin American countries are updating their decades-old national ID systems and moving to biometrics without a public debate on the privacy and data-protection implications of these proposals, according to Katitza Rodriguez, the international rights director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that defends digital rights.
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A 2009 IOM study "In Pursuit of the Southern Dream" suggested that some 17,000-20,000 mainly young men from Somalia and Ethiopia are smuggled through Tanzania en route to South Africa every year.
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In each location the Japanese-funded project has allowed IOM, in close collaboration with Tanzanian police and immigration counterparts, to construct and extend premises where the migrants can be housed and screened.
It has also provided IT equipment to allow Tanzanian immigration officers to capture biographic and biometric data in order to create a record of all migrants passing through land border posts. The project has also donated 11 cars and three boats.
The report also found that biometric chip checks were routinely suspended before the pilot began. Between January and June last year, chip reading was suspended 14,812 times, but the Border Agency was "unable to explain definitively why these suspensions occurred".Needless to say, biometrics only work if you use them.
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is assisting the government of Papua New Guinea, a small island nation in the Pacific Ocean close to Australia, in starting a national identity scheme. Two UIDAI officials — deputy director general BB Nanawati and additional director general Anup Kumar — spent a week there this January to guide the country's government in providing biometric identity to its residents.
Chief executive of the Irish Exporters Association (IEA) John Whelan has welcomed the vision for a new era for visa systems for Ireland, which was outlined at the second meeting of the Export Trade Council held last week.Much more at the link.
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The basis of the long-term waiver is likely to be based on sharing biometric checks through fingerprint recognition technology with the UK authorities.
Biometrics are increasingly being used as a feature of visa application and border checking by many advanced economies.
However, the Dept of Justice and Equality advised the Export Trade Council that the cost of putting the biometric technology in the worldwide network of Irish embassies would cost in the order of €6.5m.
Fujitsu’s smartphones will certainly feature electronic money technology – enabling owners to use NFC, the mobile payment system – and biometric recognition to make their use as mobile wallets more secure.Fujitsu, more than any other handset manufacturer, is deeply involved in biometric sensor hardware (finger, palm) that doesn't currently reside on stock mobile platforms. So stay tuned.
The 40-day registration exercise will be held at the polling station levels with four polling stations coming together to form a cluster for the registration.
As part of the registration process, prospective voters will be required to provide their exact date of birth, their current residential address as well as their hometown address.
Applicants will also be be required to show evidence of eligibility to register by providing either a birth certificate, passport, baptismal card, a driver’s license or a national health insurance card, the national I.D card or the existing voter ID card.
The prints from all ten fingers of applicants as well as their images will be captured digitally as part of the registration exercise. In the event of an applicant having lost some fingers, the fingerprints of the available fingers will be captured. Special arrangements will also be made for the registration of persons without fingers.
Weeks after the Union Cabinet decided that the task of collecting biometric and demographic data of residents would be shared by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and the National Population Register, Aadhar enrolments across the country have been suspended as the process is reviewed.
The enrolment process is on a “six-week break”, senior officials in the UIDAI told The Hindu , and during this period “modalities” on how to go forward with the second phase of this scheme will be finalised. Enrolments are slated to recommence by mid-April, after a “thorough review” of the existing process is conducted, the official said.
She also disclosed that the Pension Task Force made a recovery of about N151 billion following the use of the biometric verification system in plugging leakages occasioned by the menace of ghost workers in the public sector.Today: 151,000,000,000.00 NGN = 955,998,752.25 USD. That's some heavy ROI.
They will continue working at London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports until after the 2012 Olympics.
A UK Border Agency spokeswoman said the government was reviewing the use of the scanners in the light of new technology.
The Iris Recognition Immigration System (IRIS) was first introduced into Heathrow in 2005 and rolled out at Birmingham, Gatwick and Manchester in the following year.
On average, Kenney said it takes four and a half years from the initial claim to remove a failed refugee claimant for the country.Canada is among the world's most welcoming countries to refugees. If it to remain that way, Canadians need to have a high level of confidence that the system works well.
The legislation also would grant legal authority to collect biometric data from people entering Canada on a visitor visa, work permit or study visa.
"We have seen many cases of people, criminals — foreign criminals — arrested, convicted, and deported who came back to Canada using fake papers," Kenney said.
He said the use of biometrics would prevent failed refugee claimants from trying to return to the country.
Using the Integrated Automated Identification System (IAFIS), and other databases, a female subject from the group was identified as Blanca Yesenia Garcia-Recinos, a 24-year-old Guatemalan national.
The subject's biometric information revealed prior arrests which led to felony convictions, including kidnapping, burglary and aggravated assault in 2009.
Garcia-Recinos was previously removed from the U.S. in May and June, 2011.
Social development director general Vusi Madonsela told the Mail & Guardian that Sassa does not own a database and it doesn't have a biometric database of beneficiaries and would like to create that record. "It's also very important for the purpose of fighting fraud. And in the process of creating that record of database, we will pick up the wrong things in the system," said Madonsela.Ten billion Rand = US $1.3 billion.
He added that the re-registration of beneficiaries will begin in the next financial year.
The European Union (EU) is supporting three organizations in the country with an amount of seven million Euros to train their staff and educate the public on the Biometric Voter Registration exercise.Biometric scanners don't cause erectile dysfunction - EC (Ghana Web)
The beneficiary organizations are the Electoral Commission (EC), National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE) and the National Media Commission (NMC).
The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) and the Electoral Commission (EC) have debunked rumours that scanners for the biometric voters registration can cause cancer or erectile dysfunction.Every large scale biometric deployment will have an education component and the educational challenges differ depending upon many factors.
According to the two bodies, the scanners, which will be used for biometric registration, would be similar to the ones used at the various international airports, such as the Kotoka International Airport, the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York and the Schipol Airport in Amsterdam.
More and more international governments and security-intensive companies are using biometric-enabled identity cards for their employees and professionals. As this technology becomes more widespread, the need to make this technology more mobile, and more accessible is becoming clear. Experts all over the globe are pushing for cloud-based biometrics for greater efficiency and mobility.More at the link.
"Are those face-scans of your children? They're adorable!"How am I doing? What? Not good?
"I lost a ton of weight, so I put a new face-scan on my LinkedIn profile."
"I hate my drivers license face-scan."
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The result was achieved by vigilant staff across the group, trained by a dedicated anti-fraud unit in the company, aided by document checking technology from Au10Tix in all of its ACF Car Finance Limited used car dealerships.Better ID management is good for companies and their customers.
Forged passports and driving licences presented by customers to verify their ID are among the illegally-held documents picked up by the crime-fighting scanners.
The software analyses components of documents such as biometric data, visual data, infrared, ultraviolet and holograms to provide its full authentication check.
ACF Car Finance is the first UK motor retailer to use this technology, says Richard Cox, Head of Motor Operations at TFC, parent company to ACF Car Finance.
However, he comments, in addition to significantly reducing the company’s exposure to the risk of fraud, the scanners also provide both commercial and customer benefits:
"By removing the risk of human error from document checking we are also freeing up showroom staff to spend more time with customers" said Richard.
"Also, consumers do not have to wait around as long while their documents are manually authenticated - a procedure which some people find irritating and slightly offensive.
"In just a few seconds, we can now ascertain if an item of identity is genuine - and it is a far more robust and customer-friendly way of managing fraud risk than manual checking" said Richard.
“What’s more, if an innocent customer is involved, for example if their details are used fraudulently, they are duly notified and offered advice on how to protect themselves from ID Fraud in the future.”
69% of the 1,008 people surveyed by Ifop for Wincor-Nixdorf said they were either very or quite in favour of replacing PIN codes with fingerprint biometrics at the point-of-sale, and only 36% were either very or quite in favour of using an NFC phone to make a purchase. 39% were quite opposed to the idea and 25% were very opposed.Support for NFC actually dropped from last year's survey.
After a series of two vulnerabilities were discovered that targeted Google Wallet, Google’s mobile and digital wallet app on the company’s Android smartphones, Google has now decided to disable the prepaid credit card feature on the app.
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The app makes use of NFC, or near field communications, technology. Rather than swiping a plastic credit card through a magnetic reader, users can pay for physical goods at retail stores by waving their NFC-enabled smartphone next to an NFC reader. In this manner, Google anticipates that smartphones and wallets would converge and eventually credit cards would become obsolete as users would only need to carry their smartphones to make and initiate payment.
Basically, if the password is a physical thing she has, than the Fifth Amendment does not protect it. But if the password is deemed to be something the defendant knows, it is protected.As the post points out, biometric technologies complicate this further.
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To illustrate the principle, the Supreme Court has previously explained that a witness might be “forced to surrender a key to a strongbox containing incriminating documents,” but not “compelled to reveal the combination to a wall safe.”
He said the Fourth Amendment is a better argument “for us and for the public in general.”
Fricosu’s case drew interest from civil rights groups who argued that current law needs to evolve to meet the nuances of the digital age. The prosecution, however, argued that hiding behind a password and encrypted data would make prosecution impossible in the future.
Dubois says the Fourth Amendment argument ties into the Fifth Amendment, which is also “about due process of law and fundamental fairness. ”
Among those in the queue is Kamala, a daily wage labourer.Technically, the challenge India has set for itself — a unique, legitimate ID for every individual in society — reminds me of the polio mass immunization efforts of the 1950's and the goal is of no less importance.
It's people like her, the poorest of the poor, who are expected to benefit the most from the UID. They have no proper identity papers and therefore no access to services such as subsidised food rations, a phone connection, even a bank account.
"It's so difficult to get anything done without a proper identity," she says. "We're often forced to pay bribes to get subsidised grains or fuel.
"With the UID I hope things will improve - we can buy cheap food and I can help educate my children."
Shortly after noon on Thursday, Sept. 16, 1920, a powerful bomb hidden in a horse-drawn wagon exploded at the corner of Wall and Broad Streets in Manhattan. It was a pleasant late-summer day, and throngs of people had been out enjoying a lunchtime stroll, a brief respite from the great money machine, the center of American capitalism.
Now blood ran in the streets where the first U.S. Congress had convened and the Bill of Rights became law. Shrapnel scarred the walls and shattered the windows of J.P. Morgan and Co., America’s most formidable bank. The bomb killed at least 38 people and injured roughly 400. It was the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history, a distinction it held for 75 years. Its force reverberates today.
In Washington at that hour, J. Edgar Hoover, 25 years old, was putting the finishing touches on the federal government’s first counterterrorist force, the General Intelligence Division. Hoover wrote that he intended to combat “not only the radical activities in the United States” but also those “of an international nature”; not only radical politics, but “economic and industrial disturbances” as well.
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Walk to the corner of Wall and Broad Streets today, and you can run your hands over the deep gouges left by the 1920 bombing. You will have to look harder to see the cameras that track your steps -- a 21st-century tribute to Hoover, the architect of the modern surveillance state. Every fingerprint on file, every byte of biographic and biometric data in the computer banks of the government, owes its origins to him.
Alhaji Jaka will be one of hundreds of exceptional cases to go through the registration exercise without completing the process one hundred percent.
As President of the Amputees Association, Alhaji Jaka is armless, being a victim of rebels’ amputation spree during the rebel invasion of Freetown on 6th January 1999. He uses his arms with the help of a metal formulation attached to his body which he calls, ‘prospective’. He therefore did not thumb print his registration form. Thumb printing is one of the key elements in the Biometric voter registration process.
Security is looked at by most companies as a cost of doing business and if my competitor isn’t investing, I can let it go too. My personal opinion is that security can be a competitive advantage if it increases employee productivity and decreases cost. It is our job to design and implement solutions for our customers that do just that. Technology should facilitate the provisions of better security and lower the cost of ownership to the organization. I believe that is possible today.
Data is not only becoming more available but also more understandable to computers. Most of the Big Data surge is data in the wild — unruly stuff like words, images and video on the Web and those streams of sensor data. It is called unstructured data and is not typically grist for traditional databases.That's just a sample. It's well worth reading the whole thing.
But the computer tools for gleaning knowledge and insights from the Internet era’s vast trove of unstructured data are fast gaining ground. At the forefront are the rapidly advancing techniques of artificial intelligence like natural-language processing, pattern recognition and machine learning.
Those artificial-intelligence technologies can be applied in many fields. For example, Google’s search and ad business and its experimental robot cars, which have navigated thousands of miles of California roads, both use a bundle of artificial-intelligence tricks. Both are daunting Big Data challenges, parsing vast quantities of data and making decisions instantaneously.
The wealth of new data, in turn, accelerates advances in computing — a virtuous circle of Big Data. Machine-learning algorithms, for example, learn on data, and the more data, the more the machines learn. Take Siri, the talking, question-answering application in iPhones, which Apple introduced last fall. Its origins go back to a Pentagon research project that was then spun off as a Silicon Valley start-up. Apple bought Siri in 2010, and kept feeding it more data. Now, with people supplying millions of questions, Siri is becoming an increasingly adept personal assistant, offering reminders, weather reports, restaurant suggestions and answers to an expanding universe of questions.
A total of 304 out of 394 MPs registered in the hall voted on Thursday for the president's proposal to reject the law on documents confirming the identity and citizenship of Ukraine.Other posts on the subject...
Wii-like motion controls will enable users to select apps, browse the web or change the channel by moving their hand through the air. The built-in camera on the ES8000 is also equipped with facial recognition technology that can automatically log you on to your Smart Hub and VoIP service Skype without needing a password or ID.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has approved a five-year extension of its partnership authorizing National Air Transportation Association Compliance Services (Natacs) to continue as a trusted fingerprint facility to process biological and biometric information for general aviation and commercial aviation worldwide.
Natacs, a partially owned subsidiary of NATA, has been partnered with the TSA since 2002. Under the revised and extended agreement, Natacs can continue to provide all pre-enrollment, enrollment, fingerprint collection and secure data transmission for TSA-conducted background checks on tens of thousands of aircrew members and flight students each year. The agreement expires in December 2016.
An East Providence city worker has been fired and is in trouble with the law after police said they caught him on hidden camera tampering with a time clock.Observations:
Scott Cook, 50, of East Providence pleaded not guilty to one count of vandalism,a misdemeanor. Police said he used a ballpoint pen to scratch a biometric reader on a time clock at the city's Department of Public Works yard.
DPW employees are required to scan their finger when clocking in and out of work each day. City officials said the technology was put in place to clamp down on "buddy punching."
"[The reader] ensures the data collected by the device is linked to an individual which allows us to pay people with taxpayer money to a high degree of certainty it’s correct," said City Manager Peter Graczykowski.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the publication of a final rule that would establish Global Entry—a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) voluntary initiative, which allows expedited clearance for pre-approved, low-risk travelers.This little bit also caught my eye:
DHS says the move will streamline the international arrivals and admission process at airports for trusted travelers through biometric identification—as a permanent program.
“Global Entry expedites the customs and security process for trusted air travelers through biometric verification, while helping DHS ensure the safety of all airline passengers,” said Secretary Napolitano. “Making Global Entry permanent will improve customer service at airports across the country and enable law enforcement to focus on higher-risk travelers.” [emph. mine]
The program is available to U.S. citizens and U.S lawful permanent residents, as well as Mexican nationals.That covers NAFTA (Canada-US-Mexico). The Netherlands represents a toehold in the Euro area. Hopefully these few existing relationships combined with the stated commitment to automation and emerging eGate technology sets the stage for a revolution in the international travel bureaucracy.
Citizens of the Netherlands may also apply under a special reciprocal arrangement that links Global Entry with the Dutch Privium program in Amsterdam. Canadian citizens and residents may participate in Global Entry through membership in the NEXUS program.
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Tuesday launched its online authentication of Aadhaar numbers facility, which is proposed to help banks, telecom companies and government departments authenticate an Indian resident, via mobile phones, computers, tablets or other devices, connected to the internet.
After a brief hiatus to upgrade the software on the 49th Security Forces Defense Biometric Identification System, as of Feb. 1 hand-held scanners are being used again at all three gates at Holloman AFB.
Using barcode technology and fingerprints to verify the access authorization of everyone entering the installation, DBIDS is the latest step in helping security forces here improve safety and security for the Holloman community and its resources.
As everyone in the security business knows, there is no perfect answer. Gartner's Allan points out that "whatever the desirable level of assurance, it has to be balanced against cost (deployments for hundreds of thousands of users are very cost sensitive) and user experience. We know that bank customers may change their banks if new security features such as authentication degrade the user experience: in a survey a couple of years ago, Gartner found that 3% of customers had done so, and a further 12% considered it," adds Allan.Because there's no perfect answer, the challenge is in how to adopt new technologies that show positive return on investment without tying a mission-critical business process up in something that might not be the optimal solution over the longer term. How do you adopt new technologies in a way that preserves your ability to continue to adopt new technologies?
"The huge success of online shopping and advertising—led by giants like Amazon and Google—is in no small part thanks to software that logs when you visit Web pages and what you click on. Startup Prism Skylabs offers brick-and-mortar businesses the equivalent—counting, logging, and tracking people in a store, coffee shop, or gym with software that works with video from security cameras."Online retailers are able to free-ride on investments made by their brick-and-mortar competitors (see showrooming). They also have more powerful tools available to them for the purposes of analyzing detailed reports of user activity on retail websites. Why, the page I linked to for this story has fifteen programs that track your interaction with the linked page and TechnologyReview.com isn't even selling anything directly. The image to the left shows the list as compiled by the Ghostery add-on for Firefox.
The bill establishes a timeline for issuing improved pilot certificates that are tamper resistant and can accommodate a photograph, digital photograph, biometric identifier, or other unique identifier.See also: UPDATE: Pilot's Licenses don't have photos?
"This is just part of the plan of where we want to be a year from now," said Scott McPhail.
By 2013, McPhail hopes you can get your medical marijuana the same way you buy a soda, right out of a machine.
From time to time some state agency, or some person at an agency, doesn't seem to take seriously what someone in the Legislature, maybe a chairman of a committee, wants the agency to do.Some of the best reporting on biometrics and ID management issues is to be found in small local media outlets. This piece from the News Service of Florida and found at the Polk County Ledger is a great example. It's worth reading in its entirety.
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The fight goes back to a little-noticed requirement buried seemingly innocuously in the budget lawmakers passed in 2010.
"From the funds provided in specific appropriations 629 through 721, the Department of Corrections by January 1, 2011 shall implement an electronic time and attendance system in all four regions through a contract ….," the budget said.
January 1, 2011, came and went, with no such contract.
Taiwan's airport e-gates, or automated immigration gates, have prevented 32 criminals, tax evaders and violators of passport regulations from leaving the country since their launch earlier this year. Chen Chien-cheng, deputy commander of the National Immigration Agency's Border Affairs Corps, said Tuesday that the 32 transgressors included killers, tax evaders and people using expired or stolen passports.The gates have been in use since January 1. Technologies like these gates open up possibilities for making future air travel more enjoyable than it is today.
"Along with the help of personalised entrance tickets and face scanners, notorious rioters can be effectively kept out of the stadiums," said Caffier in a statement.A note:
"We have to go beyond the current discussions," he said.
A study has been commissioned to determine the practical and legal feasibility of using the technology in stadiums, after which a pilot run of the scanners will be carried out.
In a country that has had a difficult relationship with surveillance in the past, any form of monitoring the population is met with suspicion.
"This idea is a disgrace to democracy and is reminiscent of Orwell's 1984," said Philipp Markhardt, spokesman for the national Pro-Fans association.
Mr. Schrems’s sentiment is emblematic of the discomfort sweeping through Europe about the ways in which Internet companies treat personal information. That discomfort has, in turn, prompted proposals for stricter regulation of online data across the continent. And Europe’s moves to protect Internet privacy — something Americans have not, as yet, actively agitated for — have given rise to a thorny question: How do the laws and mores of different nations manage, if at all, the multinational companies that now govern our digital lives?It's a good article.
With no exclusive organizations focused on fighting terrorism, Germany's homeland security expenditure is largely concerned with the security of its borders and the international threat of terrorism. Indeed, while Germany is expected to procure biometric identification systems to prevent illegal immigration by increased efficiency in border patrol, attractive opportunities are forecast to emerge in the areas of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), all-terrain vehicles, satellite radar systems and, if it were to pull out of its ongoing A400M development program, military transport aircraft.
Dartmouth professor with colleagues at Birkbeck College in the University of London,are investigating the process of facial recognition, seeking to understand the complexity of what is actually taking place in the brain when one person looks at another.Humans accomplish facial recognition very differently than the computer programs they have created to help with the task. But a better understanding of how humans do it should certainly help biometric algorithm developers advance facial recognition technology.
His studies target people who display an inability to recognise faces, a condition long known as prosopagnosia. Duchaine is trying to understand the neural basis of the condition while also make inferences about what is going wrong in terms of information processing—where in the stages that our brains go through to recognise a face is the system breaking down. A paper published in Brain details the most recent experimental results.
Barely two days after the first person was caught trying to register twice on the new biometric machines, another person (this time a woman) has also fallen foul of the law by attempting to register twice at Tassoh Island, Ward 348, in Constituency 97.That's where it gets really interesting as making the arrest turned out to be quite difficult.
The only password manager I trust is the one on my encrypted biometric USB dongle. I then handcuff said dongle to my wrist for an extra layer of protection.Also yesterday, formerly known as Groundhog Day Eve, was "Change Your Password Day."
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is aiming to end New York City’s policy of requiring food stamp applicants to be fingerprinted, a policy the city’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, wants to keep in place. A new survey shows that a majority of Americans nationwide favor requiring food stamp applicants to be fingerprinted in order to be eligible.The quote above, as it is displayed at rasmussenreports.com, embeds the following link: Bloomberg Says He Will Fight for Fingerprinting Rule (NY Times.com)
We took a temporary hiatus in January, but we are back in February with a fresh new subject to discuss on the monthly #biometricchat – biometrics in workforce management. Happy to announce that this month’s guest for the chat will be Scott Barker, a product marketing manager with Kronos, Inc. (@Kronosinc on Twitter) who will be answering questions about the applications of biometric employee identification in workforce management[...]John at M2SYS has done a lot to foster dialogue among biometric service providers, potential customers, the public and public advocates. These biometric chats are an important (and fun) part of that.
On January 26, at approximately 9:00 p.m., an officer was conducting a traffic stop on a suspicious vehicle in a “hotspot” (area known for a high concentration of auto and residential burglaries). During the stop, the suspect had no identification and the name provided indicated no wants or warrants, yet the officer was suspect of the name given.
When the backup officer arrived on scene, the officer took the suspect's fingerprint using the Fingerprint Reader and within 30 seconds, the suspect was positively identified as Carlos Rodrigues and had an active warrant out of Rochester, New York for sodemy on a child under 12.
The solution includes data enrollment and issuing stations, as well as individual means to verify identity tied to Biometric Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS), allowing for better control at border points and increased efficiencies.
Oded Bashan, Chairman and CEO of OTI, stated, ""OTI's secure ID offerings provide a cost effective, secure and timely to-market solution that leverages and interfaces with legacy systems and records."
Cognitech, Inc. has announced the recent donation of it's forensic video enhancement Tri-Suite 11 software system to the Oakland Police Department, at the request of the Oakland Law Enforcement, and in the interest of the City of Oakland, CA, community at large with the purpose of forensically enhancing and analyzing video footage from the Occupy Oakland protests in order to find the forensic truth in the recorded incidents/events footage.and
CEO Dr. Lenny Rudin said, in regards to the donation, “It is our sincere hope that in donating our forensic video Tri-Suite software to the Oakland Police Department, we are helping to assist the entire community through the forensic video enhancement and 3D analysis of numerous videos that were recorded during the Occupy Oakland, CA protests. Pictures tell the truth and when enhancing these videos and photos forensically, unlawful acts will be seen and analyzed clearly and scientifically, no matter who committed them.”San Jose Mercury News article on the events in Oakland
A judge on Tuesday issued stay-away orders barring 12 people from coming within 300 yards of Frank H. Ogawa Plaza as the city continues to deal with the fallout from Saturday's violent Occupy Oakland protest.From last summer:
The orders -- the first to be handed down -- apply to the 12 protesters who were also the first to be formally charged with crimes in connection with the protest, in which more than 400 people were arrested in a series of daylong clashes with police. City officials said they would seek the stay-away orders on those who have repeatedly been arrested in Occupy protests in an effort to keep the demonstrations under control. Prosecutors said they are still reviewing arrest reports from Saturday and more people could be charged.
The most difficult prediction to materialize is the scheme in which trusted travelers are exempted from security checks.Also, according to the article, flying in the future will not involve checked baggage.
"Countries like Canada, Germany and South Korea already have trusted traveler programs, which now are mainly to do with the immigration and emigration," Thomas says.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says the current security-check system isn't effective, and wastes time and energy, investigating countless bags rather than high-risk passengers. "Today's checkpoint was designed four decades ago to stop hijackers carrying metal weapons," IATA's director general Giovanni Bisignani says.
"We need a process that responds to today's threats. It must amalgamate intelligence based on passenger information and new technology. That means moving from a system that looks for bad objects to one that can find bad people."
So, the future security check will be divided into three channels, according to a passenger's risk rate - no security for known travelers, normal security for ordinary people and enhanced security for people regarded as dangerous.
But it's still difficult, even though the biometric technology based already exists, Thomas says. And it involves governments and intelligence departments.
A Sligo man mounted a one-man pyjama protest outside the office of the Department of Social Protection in Cranmore on Friday.Photo at the link.
Carrowmore native David Eakins, who was wore a pig’s head costume, was objecting to being forced to use the new biometric method to claim Job Seekers allowance.
