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Biometric technology underpins innovation at borders
TECHNOLOGY
ISSN 0969-4765 November/December 2015
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Biometric technology underpins innovation at borders
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iometric technology is underpinning innovation at borders worldwide. Australia is looking to cloud and biometric technologies to secure its borders. Images harvested from social media sites such as Facebook could contribute to Australia’s planned counter-terrorism facial biometric matching capability, reports The Guardian. Australian officials are also reported to be proposing an international travel system that could do away with the traditional passport, and instead just see travellers’ identities stored in a cloud database. Australian authorities are in discussions with New Zealand authorities, reports Security Document World, and it is likely that any cloud passport would involve government servers being accessed through electronic means by border agencies. In France, authorities are calling for EU-wide rules requiring EU nationals to give their fingerprints and possibly also have their faces scanned for border transit reports EU Observer. La Línea de la Concepción, the border between Spain and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, has implemented an Automated Border Control (ABC) solution that includes face biometrics and fingerprint recognition to enhance security. La Línea de la Concepción is a strategic Entry and Exit point of the Schengen area. Vision-Box implemented the solution for the Spanish Ministry of Interior and the National Police Force. It incorporates 13 biometric-based vb i-match ABC e-gates for self-service border
Border at La Línea de la Concepción.
clearance in both inbound and outbound terminals, processing citizens from the European Economic Area. At the e-gates, citizens authenticate their e-passports and have their identity verified by looking at a camera, which captures a live face image compliant with ICAO standards. The system then matches it against the biometric data stored in the travel document. In the case of Spanish citizens, both face and fingerprints are verified and matched against their national ID card. The Spanish National Police will have a real time link to the e-gates. In the US, the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis has launched a pilot programme Identity Intelligence Biometrics (I2B) which is intended to use automated face and fingerprint biometric identification to help identify known and suspected terrorists and Special Interest Aliens (SIAs), from countries known to sponsor or harbour terrorists, apprehended illegally crossing the borders into the US, according to Homeland Security Today.
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UK government extends biometrics review timescale
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Indian citizens can choose to block the biometrics linked to Aadhaar card
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Apple partners with academia on mobile healthcare biometrics
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Biometric tech gets the vote in elections worldwide
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Features Biometrics and IP: working hand in hand Are biometrics businesses doing enough to protect their IP? Robert Gleave reports.
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Behavioural analytics: sifting good users from bad actors Tim Ring interviews Ryan Wilk, director, NuData Security.
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Regulars Events Calendar
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News in Brief
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Product News
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Company News
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ajor players in the payments sector have made further announcements throwing their weight behind
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Visit us online @ www.biometrics-today.com
ISSN 0969-4765/15 © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This journal and the individual contributions contained in it are protected under copyright by Elsevier Ltd, and the following terms and conditions apply to their use: Photocopying Single photocopies of single articles may be made for personal use as allowed by national copyright laws. Permission of the publisher and payment of a fee is required for all other photocopying, including multiple or systematic copying, copying for advertising or promotional purposes, resale, and all forms of document delivery. Special rates are available for educational institutions that wish to make photocopies for non-profit educational classroom use.
ISSN 0969-4765 November/December 2015
www.biometrics-today.com
borders
Contents
Biometric technology underpins innovation at borders
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iometric technology is underpinning innovation at borders worldwide. Australia is looking to cloud and biometric technologies to secure its borders. Images harvested from social media sites such as Facebook could contribute to Australia’s planned counter-terrorism facial biometric matching capability, reports The Guardian. Australian officials are also reported to be proposing an international travel system that could do away with the traditional passport, and instead just see travellers’ identities stored in a cloud database. Australian authorities are in discussions with New Zealand authorities, reports Security Document World, and it is likely that any cloud passport would involve government servers being accessed through electronic means by border agencies. In France, authorities are calling for EU-wide rules requiring EU nationals to give their fingerprints and possibly also have their faces scanned for border transit reports EU Observer. La Línea de la Concepción, the border between Spain and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, has implemented an Automated Border Control (ABC) solution that includes face biometrics and fingerprint recognition to enhance security. La Línea de la Concepción is a strategic Entry and Exit point of the Schengen area. Vision-Box implemented the solution for the Spanish Ministry of Interior and the National Police Force. It incorporates 13 biometric-based vb i-match ABC e-gates for self-service border
Border at La Línea de la Concepción.
clearance in both inbound and outbound terminals, processing citizens from the European Economic Area. At the e-gates, citizens authenticate their e-passports and have their identity verified by looking at a camera, which captures a live face image compliant with ICAO standards. The system then matches it against the biometric data stored in the travel document. In the case of Spanish citizens, both face and fingerprints are verified and matched against their national ID card. The Spanish National Police will have a real time link to the e-gates. In the US, the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis has launched a pilot programme Identity Intelligence Biometrics (I2B) which is intended to use automated face and fingerprint biometric identification to help identify known and suspected terrorists and Special Interest Aliens (SIAs), from countries known to sponsor or harbour terrorists, apprehended illegally crossing the borders into the US, according to Homeland Security Today.
Biometrically secured payment transactions drive consumer biometrics adoption
M
News Biometric technology underpins innovation at borders
1
Biometrically secured payment transactions drive consumer biometrics adoption
1
Researchers outline cybersecurity vulnerabilities of biometric systems
2
Fujitsu tech turns biometric data into a cryptographic key
3
UK government extends biometrics review timescale
3
Indian citizens can choose to block the biometrics linked to Aadhaar card
3
Apple partners with academia on mobile healthcare biometrics
12
Biometric tech gets the vote in elections worldwide
12
Features Biometrics and IP: working hand in hand Are biometrics businesses doing enough to protect their IP? Robert Gleave reports.
biometric tech as research firm Goode Intelligence finds payments are the Continued on page 2...
5
Behavioural analytics: sifting good users from bad actors Tim Ring interviews Ryan Wilk, director, NuData Security.
8
Regulars Events Calendar
3
News in Brief
4
Product News
4
Company News
4
Comment
payments
ajor players in the payments sector have made further announcements throwing their weight behind
TODAY
biometric
12
Visit us online @ www.biometrics-today.com
ISSN 0969-4765/15 © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This journal and the individual contributions contained in it are protected under copyright by Elsevier Ltd, and the following terms and conditions apply to their use: Photocopying Single photocopies of single articles may be made for personal use as allowed by national copyright laws. Permission of the publisher and payment of a fee is required for all other photocopying, including multiple or systematic copying, copying for advertising or promotional purposes, resale, and all forms of document delivery. Special rates are available for educational institutions that wish to make photocopies for non-profit educational classroom use.