[Dave Birch] One of my most frequent criticisms of the UK's national identity card scheme is that it is backward-looking, an electronic simulation of a Victorian ID card rather than an ID card for the 21st century. I gave an example of this in a talk recently by using the case of OpenID, noting that...

[Dave Birch] I've been spending a lot of time on biometrics recently, trying to work out the best way for our customers to exploit some advances in the technology. In particular, especially given the ICO's recent "Privacy by Design" report, I've been trying to think of ways to make biometric authent...

YOU WRITE... In her article 'Signed, sealed, delivered: by who?' (Guardian, Thursday 8 January 2009), Anne Wollenberg makes some interesting and useful observations about the practical issues surrounding the take-up of digital signatures for every-day use.Although the article is directed to the use ...

So much for biometrics and immigration security: A South Korean woman managed to fool a million-dollar fingerprint reading machine in Japanese border controls using a simple piece of tape stuck to......

For a while now, I’ve been wanting a way to carry my pgp and ssh keys around with me without having to worry about what happens if I lose the media. I’m not 100% sure yet, but I think I’ve found a pretty good solution. I picked up a FingerGear flash drive with fingerprint reader ($...

[Dave Birch] I'd never been to a BankCarCamp before so I wasn't sure what to expect at the BarCampBank London last week. I needn't have worried: as well as Forum friends such as Chris Skinner, Stephen Mason and James Gardner, there were both old pals and new acquaintances. The discussions were open ...

DALLAS, Texas, May 13 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Biometric Signature ID ("BSI") and Quick Business Operating Systems (QBOS) today announced a strategic alliance that will enable BSI's dynamic biometric authentication and verification solutions to seamlessly operate within QBOS's Business Process Autom...

Why expedited security scans for elite travelers would be hard to curtail....

"There is NO privacy!": Pope Benedict. gee, I guess that means a society has no privacy rights, no matter what the UN might declare. ...Tracing African roots through DNA - FORTUNE - By John Simons, Fortune writer, 16.Feb.07 in 2008, GeneBase website proudly announced they had 500,000 clients. ...U.S...

How reliable are USB drives using finger-print authentication? I want to consolidate my many online and offline user accounts, passwords, pins etc. in a single, secure database (KeePass) which I want to store on a biometric USB flash drive. But what if I severely cut my finger while filleting some f...