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Logan tightens employee ID system
The Massachusetts Port Authority is revamping the way it credentials employees and contractors with access to secured areas at Logan International Airport, in the wake of last week's arrest of 14 undocumented workers there.Massport said it is immediately ending the practice of allowing outside contractors to issue airport identification badges to their workers, and instead will issue all the badges itself. All the workers arrested in last week's raid by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement were Brazilian nationals working for Hurley of America, a janitorial subcontractor that issued their credentials.
Full Article from boston.com.
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Voter ID legislation has several flaws
Ever since Republicans first proposed the idea of requiring people to show a national or state-issued photo identification in order to vote on Election Day, it has been sold as a way to eliminate fraud and restore honesty to the process. What these advocates fail to tell you is that they are supporting a system that surely will deny some Hoosiers their right to vote.
Full Article from tristate-media.com.
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Ultra Electronics Card Systems
Ultra Electronics Card Systems is part of the £200 Million turnover, international, defense, aerospace and security group, Ultra Electronics Holdings, plc. With 18 operating divisions in the UK and North America the Group has a worldwide work force of 2,000 employees.
Card Systems has been designing and manufacturing its Magicard range of dye sublimation, secure photo ID Card Printers since 1993, and are now recognized as Europe's leading ID card printer manufacturer. Magicard is renowned for high quality ID card printers and laminators. The latest range of Magicard Rio, Tango and Solo ID card printers and the UltraShieldTM modular laminator have a proven track record. They are the 'preferred' ID card printers for many OEM/integrator and dealer channels for serious access control applications where rugged reliability and protection against counterfeiting are the issues. These small, robust, fast, quiet, cost effective card printers are very user friendly. Rio Quiet, single-sided printer, featuring full-bleed print capability and built-in Ultra patented HoloKote? anti-forgery card protection Tango Double-sided, high security, photo ID card printer with easy drop in dye film loading, built in security features and front access card feeder Solo Single sided, monochrome card printer with easy hand feed operation. Ideal for low volume applications UltraShield Modular laminating station to increase the security and longevity of printed CR-80 PVC/PET cards Ultra Card Systems' key customers for its card printers include large corporations, banks, insurance companies, public utility organizations, hospitals, universities and schools as well as military, police, government agencies and embassies. Other applications include contractor and visitor badges, casino, hotel, health club, sports center membership cards and loyalty cards are just a few examples of other important business sectors. Key selling points:
FVR on national ID: Respect people's privacy
FORMER President Fidel V. Ramos, a proponent of the national identification system, has this piece of advice for the Arroyo administration: Make sure it does not invade the people's privacy.Ramos said this was what he told those present at the National Security Council meeting convened by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in Malacañang yesterday."It (national ID system) was one of the side issues in relation to proposed legislation to help fight the threats [to national security]," Ramos told reporters.The proposal to implement a national ID system was raised during the NSC meeting, Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye confirmed.
Full Article from news.inq7.net.
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
SAMRA issues ID badges for fieldworkers
In a move to assure the professional status of all involved in the research industry, SAMRA (The Southern African Marketing Research Association), has undertaken to issue ID badges annually to affiliated interviewers in recognition of their professional status.This bold initiative to register the estimated 5000 interviewers in South Africa will ensure quality research. In addition the interviewee will be assured a safe and professional interview by a recognised SAMRA interviewer. This will also provide a wholly deserved platform. All accredited interviewers have to present their badge and quote their membership number when conducting interviews.
Full Article from marketingweb.co.za.
Online database is bad idea, says LSE
The London School of Economics Identity Project Interim Report challenged the wisdom of the government's plans to create a central database that would record an audit trail giving details of how, where and when each person used their identity card."The audit trail is the greatest challenge to the proposed UK system, complicating the architecture unnecessarily, placing the [ID Card] Bill and the ID system on legally problematic grounds, and ignoring the existing identification structures in British society," it said.The LSE argued that an ID card system which relied on biometrics stored in the card, rather than a central database, would be far cheaper and simpler to build and operate.
Full Article from computerweekly.com.
Sunday, March 27, 2005
GOP to start ads targeting Democrats on voter ID bill
The Wisconsin Republican Party will start running ads in eight cities Monday trying to pressure Democrats to support legislation that would require voters to show picture identification cards before casting ballots.The ads are targeted at Gov. Jim Doyle and several Democratic senators who voted against the legislation two years ago.The radio ads cite media reports that felons voted in the 2004 presidential election and that there were other discrepancies with the tally in Milwaukee.
Full Article from wmich.edu.
Town zaps school's ID Badges
Students who felt like they were being treated like supermarket products opposed high-tech cards. This little Northern California farm town is blissfully unaccustomed to turmoil. But recent weeks dished up a hopper of dissent.It started with a girl who went home from junior high saying she felt like an orange.
Full Article from detnews.com.
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