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Saturday, August 07, 2004
No smiling allowed for PASSPORT ID!
6:50 AM
You are not allowed to smile for the picture on your new biometric passport (the Brits are instituting this rule to comply with American standards). And no sunglasses or hair slanting across the eyes either, though those don?t really bother us.

Full Article from Engadget

 

Friday, August 06, 2004
Passport ID chips OK'd despite errors
6:49 AM
The State Department is moving ahead with a plan to implant electronic identification chips in U.S. passports that will allow computer matching of facial characteristics, despite warnings that the technology is prone to a high rate of error.

Full Article from Contra Costa Times

 

Thursday, August 05, 2004
RFID: Getting Under Your Skin?
6:47 AM
The identification chips, contained in a glass capsule that's slightly larger than a grain of rice, were injected into their upper arms by a syringe-like device. When activated by a scanning signal, the chips send out a unique 64-bit code that can be linked to the person's identity, along with all sorts of other pertinent information, like security clearance.

Full Article from CNN

 

Wednesday, August 04, 2004
Greek government uses Zebra card printers to secure EU meetings
6:46 AM
The Office of Greek EU Presidency used Zebra P520 printers to print ID badges to help secure high-profile meetings throughout the country. The cards had a unique bar code holding personal information on individual delegates

Full Article from CR80News

 

Resisting Identity Cards Gathering, 11/9/04
6:20 AM
A gathering to organise resistance to the Government's plans to introduce identity cards and a national population database is taking place in Manchester on September 11th 2004.

Full Article from enrager.net.

 

Tuesday, August 03, 2004
Houston airport using fingerprints, eye scan in security test
6:44 AM
At the airport, passengers insert the card into a reader at a kiosk. They look into a mirror for an iris scan, which analyzes the individualized features that exist in the colored tissue surrounding the pupil. Then they stick their finger in a sensor that detects the unique ridges and valleys of a
person's fingerprint.

Full Article
from Fort Worth Star Telegram

 

Monday, August 02, 2004
ID cards could ignore Welsh
6:27 AM
IDENTITY cards that all British citizens may have to carry under new Home Office proposals could neglect the Welsh language completely, the Eisteddfod will hear today.

Full Article from IcWales.

 


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