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Israeli biometric database a blow to civil liberty 21/02/12

A civil liberties group in Israel has filed a petition to Israel's High Court of Justice seeking to annul a law that would establish a governmental biometric database and to cancel the database’s two-year pilot program.

India reports on efficacy of biometric authentication 13/02/12

A new paper has been released looking at Aadhaar biometric authentication.

Global Entry Program to become permanent 07/02/12

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that it intends to make Global Entry a permanent programme. Global Entry is a biometric-based U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) voluntary initiative.

Iris recognition - the saviour of performance in India's UID scheme? 06/02/12

The decision to include iris recognition in India's ambitious UID scheme has been recognised as pivotal in the success of the project…

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India boldly takes biometrics where no country has gone before 06/02/12

Here is an in-depth overview of how well biometric technology is performing in India's UID project. And, more crucially, it explains why performance is so good?

 

The Upcoming International Biometric Vocabulary Standard 02/02/12

The entire biometrics community has suffered from vocabulary confusion, especially in large-scale, public procurements. Help is at hand thanks to a standards initiative looking specifically at Vocabulary Harmonization.

Challenging biometric myths 28/09/11

Sci-fi mystery and images of Tom Cruise have led to some bloated and fantastical misconceptions about how biometrics are used. Most notably, it has placed biometrics in a league where they are reviled and misunderstood more than most other technologies on the market today.

Argus Global explore some of those myths.

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