Feb-24-09 Ceelox Vault Stick with Biometric Fingerprint Flash Memory Drive

Ceelox, a veteran-owned small business, has teamed with Nastep Consulting Corporation to bring their biometric security solutions to Seaport-e, the Department of the Navy’s procurement system.


Feb-24-09 Solidly Profitable fourthQuarter and a Remarkable Yearly Profit for BIO-key

The Company is well positioned to leverage these achievements into improved productivity during 2009. We will continue to focus on ways to improve our profitability and increase shareholder value over time.


Feb-24-09 Not All Face Recognition Solutions are Insecure

Sensible Vision, with nearly a million users, comments on the recent Black Hat presentation about hacking face recognition


Feb-19-09 WCC Recognized By Frost & Sullivan for Its Unique Multimodal Platform

Unlike traditional matching systems, WCC's high-performance matching system is based on rule-based, pattern matching, and fuzzy logic techniques and provides users with the most accurate information, efficiently and conveniently.


Feb-17-09 U.S. Upgrades Biometrics Gear to Spot Terrorists

Right now, you have accepted biometric modality such as the iris, the fingerprint and facial recognition. In the future, there will be palm, DNA, partial hands and any additional touch points used to help in providing the overall picture of who someone is


Feb-17-09 New ISO/IEC report clarifies societal, cultural and ethical issues related to use of biometrics for identifying people

The technical report gives generic recommendations providing principles, guidelines and considerations for the design and implementation of biometric systems


Feb-17-09 Economy Compels Greater Need for Collaboration, More Intelligent Systems and Better Fraud Prevention; Biometric Use and Acceptance Also to Increase

Unisys Sees Technology “Consumerization” and Mobility Risks as Key Drivers for Security Investments


Feb-15-09 ENISA: Mapping the key stakeholders and NIS situation in each EU Member State in its first edition of ‘Country Reports’

The categorization and mapping of stakeholders and their mutual relations was one of the most important aims of the report.


Feb-10-09 Smart Card Alliance Clarifies Technology Usage in U.S. Electronic Passports Versus Passport Cards and EDLs

Headlines stating that passports can be scanned and tracked are wrong. The widely reported demonstration involved U.S. Passport Cards and Enhanced Driver’s Licenses, which use EPC Gen 2 RFID technology.


Feb-05-09 Citizen data protection - the European Network and Information Security Agency on privacy in national eID cards: Europe needs a strategy

Today, ten national eID card schemes are already in use across the EU and thirteen more are in the pipeline. Presently, eID cards are used primarily by e-government services, eg, for taxation, but there are also commercial applications of eID cards.


Feb-03-09 Innersope Research Exposes Connection Between National Concerns and Most Engaging Super Bowl Ads

"The benefit of biometrics is that we can identify how people truly feel, and the economy is pervasive."


Feb-03-09 Biometric System deployed by Israel Airport Authority at Taba Land Crossing

Israel Airports Authority introduces biometric identification system in land terminals, in order to cut waiting time for registered users.


Feb-02-09 Serbia issues Over 230,000 biometric passports

The goal is to record every crossing of the border, which has not been the case so far, adding that this requires a single information system…


Feb-02-09 Secretary Napolitano Issues Immigration and Border Security Action Directive

What is the prospect for using biometrics as part of the screening (done either by the employer or at an offsite location by specialized offices)? What role could data-mining or other innovative strategies play in helping to identify false positives and false negatives?


Jan-29-09 4C Controls Inc. Announces Strategic Alliance and Exclusive Distributionof Cosmo-Skymed Images with e-GEOS (Joint Venture of Telespazio, a Finmeccanica/Thales Company and Italian Space Agency)

plans include an advanced training and educational center which will be dedicated to improving SAR images processing skills for clients in the MENA region, Africa and South East Asia; 4C Controls primary focus is on electronic surveillance / access control markets, biometric, radio frequency identification (RFID), real-time locating systems

Jan-26-09 U.S. Government Presents Yemen With Biometric Data Collection Systems

Yemen is the first country in the Middle East to receive this equipment from the U.S. Government, underscoring the significance the United States places on Yemen as a critical counterterrorism partner.

Jan-22-09 Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS) program developed to identify deportable criminal aliens in local custody

New program to enhance identification and removal of criminal aliens in New Hanover, Duplin, and Orange counties. Now criminal and immigration records of all detainees to be checked.

Jan-22-09 INNERSCOPE RESEARCH™ CAN PREDICT ONLINE BUZZ GENERATED BY SUPER BOWL ADS THROUGH EMOTIONAL RESPONSE MEASUREMENT

Innerscope’s study began with a live biometric test of 30 fans during the Super Bowl. To simulate a natural experience, participants were allowed to bring along a friend and to eat and drink (up to one alcoholic beverage per quarter) throughout the game.

Jan-15-09 EU approves biometric passports

If an agreement had not been found [among the MEPs], everybody would have had to give their fingerprints, even the newborn, as long as they would travel abroad with a passport.

Jan-15-09 Upgraded Biometric Technology Facilitates Visitors' Entry to the United States

It also strengthens DHS's capability to check visitors' fingerprints against the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) criminal data and enables DHS to check visitors' fingerprints against latent fingerprints collected by Department of Defense (DOD) and the FBI from known and unknown terrorists around the world.