May 15, 2006
Alaska Stands Against REAL ID
REAL ID compliance bill killed by state legislators.
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04:28 PM
June 22, 2005
Gilbert, Sullivan, and ID Cards
A fine musical "tribute" to the plans to introduce ID cards in the UK (Flash).
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10:44 PM
May 28, 2005
A Transatlantic Database, Hurrah!
US and UK authorities want to make their new ID card proposals chip-compatible. "Hopefully, we are not going to do VHS and Betamax with our chips," Homeland Czar Michael Chertoff, cheerily suggesting that undesirables may be
overwritten.
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10:57 AM
January 26, 2005
Aussie Nat'l ID Comes Under Fire
The proposed card would include biometric identifiers.
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08:34 AM
January 04, 2005
LAPD's New Digital Facebook
The Los Angeles Police Department is seeking to expand its biometric facial recognition system, but privacy advocates want them to turn the other cheek.
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08:52 PM
August 09, 2004
UK Passports No Laughing Matter
The UK's Home Office has issued a rule barring smiles in passport photos because "open mouths can confuse facial recognition systems."
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08:21 AM
July 07, 2004
Middle School to Use Biometric Roll-Call
A Florida middle school is planning to implement biometric hand-scanners to take attendance and monitor who gets on and off the school bus.
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09:20 AM
June 07, 2004
Big Content Wants Biometrics in Media Players
The movie and music industries are experimenting with a media player that will lock content to a user's fingerprints. Just in case you weren't feeling enough like a criminal.
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Posted by Ren Bucholz at
11:32 AM
May 31, 2004
Thinking Through the National ID
Pressure for a U.S. national ID is increasing, but so are questions about the efficacy of the systems that are supposed to enable the card to provide enhanced security.
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11:42 PM
Print Fiction: When Biometrics and Bureaucracy Go Wrong
The New York Times with a cautionary tale about a man whose fingerprint records were mistakenly switched with someone else's, and how it took six years to and two months in jail to clear it up.
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12:01 AM
