I’ve got you under my skin
The Guardian reports that a number of VIP clubbers at a Barcelona nightclub have been implanted with a chip in their upper arm. Steve van Soest, spokesman for the club explains: One of our owners...
View ArticleMicrosoft, biometrics firm to tackle homeland security
Security software company Saflink said today that it would work with Microsoft to develop software for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, sending its shares to its highest level in a month. Mark...
View Article9/11 report urges info sharing, biometrics
FCW.com reports that the long-awaited 9/11 Commission report from the bipartisan commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks calls for better information sharing among government...
View ArticleBiometric Passport Program Hits Snag
Internetnews.com reports that the U.S. Senate voted to delay by one year the looming Oct. 26 deadline for Visa Waiver Program (VWP) countries to begin issuing machine-readable passports. The House of...
View Article‘I’ve got a biometric ID card’
Biometric testing of face, eye and fingerprints could soon be used on every resident of the UK to create compulsory identity cards. BBC News Online’s Tom Geoghegan volunteered for a pilot scheme and...
View ArticleBiometrics in the US
Department of Defense (DoD) Biometrics announced that it has released a new Biometrics 101 Tutorial video and a publication entitled What DoD Thinks of Biometrics on its website. Both informational...
View Article2-Fingerprint Border ID System Called Inadequate
Washington Post reports that Rep. Jim Turner sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, who wrote that terrorists who alter their fingerprints have about an even chance of slipping past...
View ArticleBig Brother’s Passport to Pry
Privacy advocates are appalled by the ongoing plan to equip all U.S. passports with RFID chips that can be read surreptitiously from a distance Business Week reports. Computer security expert Bruce...
View ArticleBiometric pilot program to tighten U.S. borders
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has begun collecting digital fingerprints and pictures of visitors at three major U.S. land border crossings. Kimberly Weissman, spokeswoman for the DHS’s...
View ArticleFingering EU
A reader forwards the following information: On October 25th, without any consultation, the Council of European Union introduced a change to this legislation, calling for the mandatory fingerprinting...
View ArticleU.K. to issue biometric passports worldwide
Steve Ranger of Silicon.com reports that the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office is spending 5 million pounds (about $8.7 million) to equip its embassies and consulates around the world with the...
View ArticleHalleluyah! Antiviral drugs are coming (and remember, Don’t mention Ivermectin!)
Now the UK has approved an anti-viral drug, early treatment is on the official agenda (on this side of the pond at least). Also on this side of the pond is a Dr John Campbell, whose amiable video...
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