Seamen from the Philippines will soon be issued biometric ID documents following their country's signing up to the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No. 185.

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This last week has seen two interesting news items demonstrating different ways in which the biometric signature market is progressing in enterprise scenarios.

Czech border police have put a partially automated biometric border control system into operation.

The under-fire unique identity project in India has been robustly defended in a new report released by the UIDAI

Morpho (Safran group), one of the main biometric companies involved in the Indian UID project, reports that 120 million numbers have now been issued.

Just announced is a new "soft biometric" application, which uses facial recognition via a mobile phone to tell the approximate age of a person.

A competition investigating the use of eye movements for biometric verification and identification has been launched.

Suprema's RealScan-G10 and RealScan-10 fingerprint live scanners have tested in full compliance and received final certification to be used in the UID project

A new study has found that voice biometrics will become central to future payments authentication – but only if certain obstacles to adoption can be overcome.

The ISO subcommittee on biometrics, SC37, will be meeting January 16-20 in Phuket, Thailand.

Norwegian biometric company IDEX and UINT have been awarded a grant from the European Eurostars programme to develop a smart card with a fingerprint sensor.

Capita's IT services business has announced the acquisition of Salmat Speech Solutions' UK operations. In the UK Salmat had provided intelligent telephony automation and voice verification solutions.

New survey results suggest that more than half of retailers still use passwords for point-of-sale (POS) system login.

Taiwan has introduced automated immigration eGates at three of its airports and one seaport.

The University of Maine has implemented palm vein scanner biometric software with its point-of-service (POS) software for student check-in at on-campus dining halls.

The USA's Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comments on facial recognition technology and the privacy and security implications raised by its increasing use.

One of Africa's most advanced IT systems – the Botswana Police Service's AFIS – is to undergo enhancement and ongoing maintenance.

London City Airport is to use facial biometrics to monitor passenger queues. Using non-invasive facial recognition technology the system measures, understands and manages passenger queues and bottlenecks.

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) office in Bangladesh is to use a complete criminal identity solution, including iris and fingerprint biometrics.

Fingerprint Cards (FPC) has received the largest order in its history demonstrating continued success in the company's strategy to target Asian markets.