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US-Visit morphs into the Office of Biometric Identity Management
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US-Visit morphs into the Office of Biometric Identity Management
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he US Department of Homeland Security’s US-Visit programme, which provided visa-issuing posts and ports of entry with the biometric technology that enables the government to establish and verify the identity of visitors, has been replaced with the Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM). The Office of Biometric Identity Management supports the Department of Homeland Security’s responsibility to protect the nation by providing biometric identification services that help federal, state, and local government decision makers identify the people they encounter and determine whether those people pose a risk to the US. OBIM supplies the technology for collecting and storing biometric data, provides analysis, updates its watchlist, and ensures the integrity of the data
Indian biometric ID project hits milestones
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ndian authorities have completed ‘data digitization’ of more than 1,170,000,000 people, 97% of the population, including biometric enrolment of more than 12.33% of the population. The biometric data of 915,000,000 people have been sent to UIDAI. The Unique Identity Authority of India (UIDAI) aims to capture and and store personal and biometric information for India’s 1.2bn population. It is estimated that once the entire system is implemented it will require a data storage capacity 10 times the size of Facebook. As the UIDAI fanfared its achievements, it emerged that according to postnoon.com, several hundreds of thousands of Aadhaar enrolments and data have been lost. The official explanation for the data loss, reports postnoon. com is that private enrolment agencies had employed agents who developed differences over their remuneration and left the project. Some claim that laptops and equipment containing data also went missing. According to the recently published report by TechSci Research ‘India Biometrics Market Forecast & Opportunities, 2018’, the Indian biometrics market is expected to reach up to
$2bn by 2018. The main drivers for the growth of Indian biometrics are lack of data protection, improper border security, terrorist threat, population growth and technological advancements. The challenges being faced by the Indian biometrics market are said to be rough hands and cataract problems, lack of innovation, implementation of biometrics at grass root level and high cost of production. Adoption of biometric systems is taking place because of its benefits such as increased productivity, revenue, cash flow, which ultimately help in customer retention.
retail
M2SYS Bio-Plugin image capture software: supporting secondhand retail.
RadioShack tunes into M2Sys kit
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adioShack has deployed the M2SYS Bio-Plugin image capture software solution for a secondhand merchandise buy-back programme at certain stores to capture the fingerprints of customers engaging in the sale of secondhand merchandise through RadioShack’s Trade & Save programme. The biometric software deployment is meant to help stop fraud and establish an audit trail of transactions. Designed to limit the resale of stolen items, some US jurisdictions require establishments that are licensed to accept trade-in merchandise to capture customer fingerprints. RadioShack only recently began accepting secondhand merchandise at select stores throughout the country. “Since we already have a relationship with another vendor who provides a solution for pawn shops and gold buyers that includes our Bio-Plugin image capture software, we were familiar with this market and the need for retailers to adopt a simple, easy-to-use product,” says Michael Trader, president of M2SYS Technology. “The increase of fraud and theft has prompted many retailers to deploy biometric identification technologies to establish a concrete audit trail and fight back against criminals.”
May 2013
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Biometric Technology Today
US-Visit morphs into the Office of Biometric Identity Management
T
he US Department of Homeland Security’s US-Visit programme, which provided visa-issuing posts and ports of entry with the biometric technology that enables the government to establish and verify the identity of visitors, has been replaced with the Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM). The Office of Biometric Identity Management supports the Department of Homeland Security’s responsibility to protect the nation by providing biometric identification services that help federal, state, and local government decision makers identify the people they encounter and determine whether those people pose a risk to the US. OBIM supplies the technology for collecting and storing biometric data, provides analysis, updates its watchlist, and ensures the integrity of the data
Indian biometric ID project hits milestones
I
ndian authorities have completed ‘data digitization’ of more than 1,170,000,000 people, 97% of the population, including biometric enrolment of more than 12.33% of the population. The biometric data of 915,000,000 people have been sent to UIDAI. The Unique Identity Authority of India (UIDAI) aims to capture and and store personal and biometric information for India’s 1.2bn population. It is estimated that once the entire system is implemented it will require a data storage capacity 10 times the size of Facebook. As the UIDAI fanfared its achievements, it emerged that according to postnoon.com, several hundreds of thousands of Aadhaar enrolments and data have been lost. The official explanation for the data loss, reports postnoon. com is that private enrolment agencies had employed agents who developed differences over their remuneration and left the project. Some claim that laptops and equipment containing data also went missing. According to the recently published report by TechSci Research ‘India Biometrics Market Forecast & Opportunities, 2018’, the Indian biometrics market is expected to reach up to
$2bn by 2018. The main drivers for the growth of Indian biometrics are lack of data protection, improper border security, terrorist threat, population growth and technological advancements. The challenges being faced by the Indian biometrics market are said to be rough hands and cataract problems, lack of innovation, implementation of biometrics at grass root level and high cost of production. Adoption of biometric systems is taking place because of its benefits such as increased productivity, revenue, cash flow, which ultimately help in customer retention.
retail
M2SYS Bio-Plugin image capture software: supporting secondhand retail.
RadioShack tunes into M2Sys kit
R
adioShack has deployed the M2SYS Bio-Plugin image capture software solution for a secondhand merchandise buy-back programme at certain stores to capture the fingerprints of customers engaging in the sale of secondhand merchandise through RadioShack’s Trade & Save programme. The biometric software deployment is meant to help stop fraud and establish an audit trail of transactions. Designed to limit the resale of stolen items, some US jurisdictions require establishments that are licensed to accept trade-in merchandise to capture customer fingerprints. RadioShack only recently began accepting secondhand merchandise at select stores throughout the country. “Since we already have a relationship with another vendor who provides a solution for pawn shops and gold buyers that includes our Bio-Plugin image capture software, we were familiar with this market and the need for retailers to adopt a simple, easy-to-use product,” says Michael Trader, president of M2SYS Technology. “The increase of fraud and theft has prompted many retailers to deploy biometric identification technologies to establish a concrete audit trail and fight back against criminals.”
May 2013