UK 13-year-old defies 'big brother' and refuses to be fingerprinted. © KristieMelody, 13, protesting the United Kingdom's policy of obtaining biometric data from minors at school. Cardiff - Since 2012, over 800,000 children have had their biometric data taken by the government in the United Kingdom via the school system. One 13-year-old girl is refusing to comply with the demands. In 31% of cases, the programs obtaining fingerprints or other biometric data from minors across the UK have done so without parental consent, according to Big Brother Watch. The civil liberties watchdog filed Freedom of Information Requests with over 3,000 schools. The watchdog's report states: As we are now one term into the 2013-14 academic year, and expect the number of schools using the technology to have increased over the summer, and the secondary school population now above 3.2 million, if the number of secondary schools using biometric technology increased from 25% to 30%, more than one million children would be fingerprinted M: I'm 13 years old.
Kirstie. Pics in the Blink of an Eye: Iris-Reading Biometric Camera. Recent Royal College of Art graduate Mimi Zou is rethinking the way we take pictures. Her Iris Camera concept would use biometric sensing to read a user’s unique iris signature and load his or her preferred camera settings. Once the camera recognizes the user, it identifies precisely what the user is looking at based on the position of the eye. Zooming in and out are as easy as squinting or widening the eye. When you are ready to take a picture, you hold your gaze steady and then blink twice.
The camera takes a picture of exactly what you see, exactly as you see it. The conceptual camera may be an indication of the direction in which photography is headed. Perhaps taking snapshots will soon be as simple as wearing a pair of glasses with an integrated iris-reading camera. Review: DigitalPersona U.are.U Personal fingerprint scanner. Biometric authentication seems to be, on the face of it, a groovy idea.
Do away with hard-to-remember passwords and easy-to-lose keys and cards; authenticate your identity with your voice, or your face, or your fingerprint. What could possibly be wrong with that? Well, lots of things, actually. High on the list is the fact that if biometric authentication is compromised - if someone finds a way to fake your voice or face or finger - you're up a brown and smelly creek without any way to propel your barbed wire canoe. If someone rips off a password of yours, you can change it. But if someone figures out a way to duplicate your fingerprint or voiceprint or retinal or iris ID, there's nothing you can do.
The limited number of biometrics each person carries around with them also makes it impossible to have a large number of different biometric keys. All this is only a problem, of course, if biometrics can be duplicated by normal human beings. That's the story, anyway. Using it Faking it out. FBI Seeks Video Recognition Technology to Automatically ID Suspects. How a New Police Tool for Face Recognition Works - Digits. Next Generation Identification. Vision Driven by advances in technology, customer requirements, and growing demand for Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) services, the FBI has initiated the Next Generation Identification (NGI) program. This program will further advance the FBI’s biometric identification services, providing an incremental replacement of current IAFIS technical capabilities, while introducing new functionality. NGI improvements and new capabilities will be introduced across a multi-year timeframe within a phased approach.
The NGI system will offer state-of-the-art biometric identification services and provide a flexible framework of core capabilities that will serve as a platform for multimodal functionality. A full and open competition was used to award the NGI contract to Lockheed Martin Transportation and Security Solutions. NGI Program Mission and Goals: Its goals are as follows: Drivers and Requirements: NGI Capabilities: Multimodal Biometrics Stakeholder Concept Resources. You Won't Need a PIN When You Pay for Everything with Your Face. Biometrics − facing the future. Back to Air Transport IT Review - Issue 1, May 2010 With biometric technology fast maturing and becoming increasingly sophisticated, biometric solutions such as SITA's iBorders BioThenticate, are at last starting to make serious inroads as a high-tech identity management and verification tool within the airport environment. Initial deployments have tended to focus on controlling access to restricted areas for staff, aircrew and suppliers.
Currently 29% of airports globally use biometrics for this purpose against only 4% that use it in the check-in or boarding process, according to the Airport IT Trends Survey 2009, by SITA and Airline Business. Yemmi Agbebi, Director of Portfolio Marketing, SITA says: "Biometric technology overcomes the limitations of conventional access control systems − based on pin codes, passwords or photo IDs − since unlike most traditional methods of identification, biometrics cannot be lost, forgotten, stolen or easily forged.
" Economic advantages Implementations. Eye movements could be our new passwords. The amount of different future password methods seems to be growing at an exponential rate, but this is easily one of my favorites. I think mostly because it requires me to do nothing but look. This method traces your eye movements and uses them as a password. Turns out that different folks move their eyes in different sequences, and no two people move their eyes about the exact same way. Texas State University-San Marcus computer scientist Oleg Komogortsev is trying to take advantage of this by creating a system that identifies the way people flicker their eyes while viewing a computer. Regular eye scanners have failed in the past because a photo of the correct eye would also work, so the technology Komogortsev is working on would be far more secure.
It would measure "fixations," which is when the eye lingers, and it would measure "saccades," which are the movements your eyes make when it switches between objects of focus. Via NBC. Eye movement biometrics « CRISISBOOM. Phys.org A biometric security system based on how a user moves their eyes is being developed by technologists in Finland. Writing in the International Journal of Biometrics, the team explains how a person’s saccades, their tiny, but rapid, involuntary eye movements, can be measured using a video camera.
The pattern of saccades is as unique as an iris or fingerprint scan but easier to record and so could provide an alternative secure biometric identification technology. Martti Juhola of the University of Tampere and colleagues point out that fingerprint and face recognition are perhaps the most usual biometric means to verify identity for secure access to buildings and computer resources and even at international borders. Other techniques such as iris scanning are also occasionally used in some circumstances. The most obvious disadvantage of such biometrics is that they might be forged through the use of an image or prosthetic. Like this: Like Loading... Public Schools Installing Biometric Hand Scanning Lunch Systems | Grand Distraction. By JG Vibes theintelhub.com October 3, 2012 Carroll County is the first district in Maryland, and one of the first in the country to install a PalmSecure system in their schools, which will force students of all ages to place their hands through an infrared scanner to pay for their lunches.
The PalmSecure system is currently operating in three Carroll County elementary schools, but should be in every school within a year and a half. The palm-reading system will cost a projected $300,000 for installation in all 43 schools in the system, as well as in the central office. The scanner identifies unique palm and vein patterns, and converts the image into an encrypted numeric algorithm that records the lunch sales.
Multiple other schools around the country are also experimenting with the PalmSecure system, including Louisiana, Florida and Mississippi. The program kicked off last year in the Pinellas County school system in Florida. Barnes said. Lookie here! College scans students’ eyeballs. Text smaller Text bigger A public university in in Rock Hill, S.C., has announced it is implementing a new eye scanner system that collects and records data about the features of students’ eyes before granting access to school buildings this fall. Winthrop University’s Associate Vice President for Information Technology James Hammond told Campus Reform the college plans to use the devices to stop “bad guys” from accessing buildings at the 445-acre campus.
The scanners, or “EagleEye stations,” cost an estimated $2,000 each. The university has already scanned the eyes of more than 1,600 of its students. Winthrop University head of technology services, Patrice Bruneau, told WCNC-TV the school is taking extra precautions after Newtown, Conn., gunman Adam Lanza killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School and his mother Nancy Lanza, before taking his own life, on Dec. 14, 2012.
“The Newtown tragedy just got everybody’s attention,” Bruneau said. FBI launches $1 billion face recognition project - tech - 07 September 2012. The Next Generation Identification programme will include a nationwide database of criminal faces and other biometrics "FACE recognition is 'now'," declared Alessandro Acquisti of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in a testimony before the US Senate in July. It certainly seems that way. As part of an update to the national fingerprint database, the FBI has begun rolling out facial recognition to identify criminals.
It will form part of the bureau's long-awaited, $1 billion Next Generation Identification (NGI) programme, which will also add biometrics such as iris scans, DNA analysis and voice identification to the toolkit. Another application would be the reverse: images of a person of interest from security cameras or public photos uploaded onto the internet could be compared against a national repository of images held by the FBI. Ideally, such technological advancements will allow law enforcement to identify criminals more accurately and lead to quicker arrests.
Promoted Stories. Facebook Facial Recognition: Its Quiet Rise and Dangerous Future. In early April, Engadget posted a short article confirming a rumor that Facebook would be using facial recognition to suggest the names of friends who appeared in newly uploaded photos. You’d be allowed to opt out of tagging, and only friends would be able to tag each other in albums. Nevertheless, a commenter beneath the story quipped, “Awesome!
Now I can take pictures of cute girls at the grocery store or at the park, upload them and Facebook will tell me who they are! (I'm pretty sure that’s not [how] it works but I’m sure it will get there.)” The commenter’s confidence says a lot: Facial recognition may be just one more way for Facebook to push the visual part of the social graph (photos of us) toward being more public and far less private. Features You Didn't Know You Had As it stands, Facebook’s current feature uses facial recognition technology to pick out faces in your photos. Facial recognition in a social networking context is not particularly new. Safe Now, But What's Coming? Google patent filing would identify faces in videos, spot the You in YouTube.
More privacy fears as Facebook buys facial-recognition startup for undisclosed sum. By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 21:58 GMT, 18 June 2012 | Updated: 07:55 GMT, 19 June 2012 Facebook is bringing one of its long-term vendors, a facial-recognition technology company Face.com, in-house. The Israeli company's technology helps people tag photos on the Web by figuring out who is in the pictures.
The deal bolsters one of Facebook's most popular features - the sharing and handling of photos - but the use of the startup's technology has spurred concerns about user privacy. Zuckerberg: Facebook is bringing one of its long-term vendors, facial-recognition technology company Face.com, in-house Media reports in past weeks have pegged the size of the transaction at between $80 million to $100 million, but two people familiar with the terms of the deal said the actual price was below the low-end of that range.
Other sources suggest the deal is closer to $60m. A Facebook spokesman said: 'People who use Facebook enjoy sharing photos and memories with their friends. Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform. The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system. Buried in the more than 800 pages of the bipartisan legislation (.pdf) is language mandating the creation of the innocuously-named “photo tool,” a massive federal database administered by the Department of Homeland Security and containing names, ages, Social Security numbers and photographs of everyone in the country with a driver’s license or other state-issued photo ID.
Employers would be obliged to look up every new hire in the database to verify that they match their photo. This piece of the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act is aimed at curbing employment of undocumented immigrants. For now, the legislation allows the database to be used solely for employment purposes. Source: www.wired.com. Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform | Threat Level.
Illustration: National Institutes of Health The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system. Buried in the more than 800 pages of the bipartisan legislation (.pdf) is language mandating the creation of the innocuously-named “photo tool,” a massive federal database administered by the Department of Homeland Security and containing names, ages, Social Security numbers and photographs of everyone in the country with a driver’s license or other state-issued photo ID. Employers would be obliged to look up every new hire in the database to verify that they match their photo. This piece of the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act is aimed at curbing employment of undocumented immigrants.
The committee is scheduled to resume debate on the package Tuesday. International Journal of Biometrics (IJBM. This site uses some unobtrusive cookies to store information on your computer. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. We use cookies to store sessions in order to provide an interactive and personal experience to our website users. We do not use cookies to serve adverts or other promotional materials.
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