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Delta's passengers can pay for faster security check
Delta will offer its passengers the option of paying $128 a year for speedier security lines; Delta has hired Verified Identity Pass to enroll passengers in Registered Traveler and operate the lines
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Air passnegers now must show an ID to be allowed on board
Until this past weekend, a passenger who agreed to secondary search of his or her body and baggage at airport check-points was allowed to board even if they did not have — or refused to show — an ID; this policy was changed on Saturday
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New biometric measures: Birth marks, scars, and tatoos
Michigan State researcher develops a system that could allow police to identify individuals by matching marks on their body with those stored in a computer database
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Better gait recognition biometrics developed
Indian researchers say they have developed gait recognition biometrics which could help security personnel identify suspected individuals from a distance
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Team developing NGI defines roles and responsibilities
Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor for the FBI’s ambitious Next Generation Identification System; team members define their contributions to the project
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Growing interest in voice biometrics
U.K. financial institutions seriously consider voice recognition technology as a way to combat ID fraud; about 20 million Britons are expected to register for some form of voice ID by the end of next year
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HSPD-24 calls for coordinated use of biometrics among federal agencies
New directive will standardize how the federal government shares biometrics and other biographical information
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U.K. ID cards: The "surveillance society" risk
MPs warn the government not to allow the new U.K. national ID scheme to turn the country into a surveillance society; a new report says the government “should collect only what is essential, to be stored only for as long as is necessary”
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State Department: Robust security for U.S. e-passport
Popular misconception notwithstanding, the new U.S. e-passprt are safe, says the State Department. One example: The card’s photograph cannot be removed with solvent; a laser engraving process embeds the photograph into the polycarbonate card stock, meaning that attempts to remove your picture will visibly mar the card
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Airlines may be forced to fit antiterror cameras in seats
The EU moves across a broad front to increase air travel safety; airlines will be forced to install spy-in-the-cabin cameras and increase the use of biometrics technology for passenger identification
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Breakthrough: Reading fingerprints even after they are gone
The name is Bond, John Bond (of Leicester University, that is): Researchers at Leicester develop a fingerprints visualization technique which would allow reading a fingerprint even after the print itself has been removed; new method would allow solving decade-old unsolved cases
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Biometrics not yet ready for banking transactions
Security expert: Biometrics plays a role in banking and financial institutions — but until 2016 or so, it should be used mostly to add a third security factor to existing chip and PIN systems
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ID-protection ads come back to bite pitchman
Todd Davis created a company which, he claimed, offered customers an iron-clad guarantee that their identity could not be stolen; to prove his point, ads for his fraud-prevention company, LifeLock, even offered his Social Security number next to his smiling mug; trouble is, a man in Texas did succeed in stealing Davis’s identity and used it to get a loan; now customers are suing
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WorkLight says RSA chief's observations ring true
RSA boss Art Coviello offers his insights on Web security, saying that hackers are developing plans to attack healthcare providers as their revenue streams from the financial services sector start to dry up; Coveillo also says that biometric technology is not a solution for IT security – at least so far
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Problems plague worker ID program
The TWIC program is being rolled out, but long lines at enrollment centers, jammed phones, redundant background checks, and paperwork slow the process down
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