Argus Attending International Harm Reduction Conference

Argus Global is exhibiting its biometrically served drug dispensing solution at the Harm Reduction 2010: IHRA’s 21st International Conference, which will take place in Liverpool, England, April 25-29 2010.

This will take place in Liverpool, England. Since 1990, the annual international harm reduction conferences have grown in importance and become the main meeting point for all those interested in harm reduction around the world. Each year, the conference takes place in a different part of the world and covers the latest topics and debates from the field.

As has been the case in the previous 20 events, the 2010 conference will include high profile keynote speeches, plenary sessions, major sessions, symposia, workshops, training events, a film festival, poster exhibitions, exhibition areas, satellite meetings, social and networking events, and the annual IHRA award presentations.

Argus has successfully sold iris recognition drug management solutions into Australia, the UK and Malaysia. Any biometric device can be utilised with this highly automated solution which delivers real and measurable ROIs to more than one hundred customers.

NIST test proves the iris recognition is idea for ID verification

A new NIST report demonstrates that iris recognition algorithms can maintain their accuracy and interoperability with compact images, affirming their potential for large-scale identity management applications such as the federal Personal Identity Verification program, cybersecurity, and counterterrorism

The eyes may be the mirror to the soul, but the iris reveals a person’s true identity — its intricate structure constitutes a powerful biometric. A new report by computer scientists at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) demonstrates that iris recognition algorithms can maintain their accuracy and interoperability with compact images, affirming their potential for large-scale identity management applications such as the federal Personal Identity Verification program, cyber security, and counterterrorism.

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NSW Prisons Integrate Iris and Fingerprint

THE NEW South Wales Department of Corrective Services is looking to integrate the fingerprint and iris detection systems used across several of its 34 prisons.

Jordanian Bank Installs Iris Recognition

The Jordan Times report the use of iris recognition in the banking sector in Jordan to identify clients at the teller winder and at ATMs. It follows earlier applications of the technology in these sorts of applications in the UK and in Texas in the USA.

Carnegie Mellon Team Wins Grant to Advance Iris-Recognition System

The Department of Defense awarded $1.5 million in grants to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University earlier this week to help them develop an iris-recognition system that instantly will identify unique iris markers in the eyes of people moving up to 13 meters away, or about 43 feet.

Pittsburgh Tribune Report here.

$250M effort to secure ports lags

WASHINGTON — A six-year, $250 million anti-terrorism effort to secure the nation's ports is delayed for at least two more years because the government lacks machines to read fingerprint ID cards issued to more than 1 million workers.

USA Today Article

UK Border Agency Plans Fingerprint Data Exchange with US, Canada and Australia

The organisation, which gained full executive agency status on 1 April 2009, says in a business plan issued on the same day that that it plans to work with the USA, Canada and Australia to "introduce a system of appropriate data protection arrangements for fingerprint checks and data sharing". This is intended to help identify and bar foreign criminals from entering the country, and is planned for "early 2009".

The agency said that by December 2008 it had enrolled more than 3.6m sets of fingerprints from visa applicants, finding more than 5,200 cases of identity swaps.

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Frost & Sullivan: Advances in Biometrics Remedy the Need for Increased Security

According to Matia Grossi, Frost & Sullivan's industry analyst, "the market for biometrics products is going to almost triple by 2012 from its 2008 value". As the level of security breaches and transaction fraud increases, the need for enhanced, secure identification and personal verification technologies increases proportionally.
Frost and Sullivan

Manchester airport recalibrate facial recognition machines to shorten lines

"Five facial recognition machines at Manchester airport produced many false negatives, causing long lines of irate passengers; to shorten lines, the machines' sensitivity was recalibrated from 80 percent to 30 percent; experts say the machines are now useless: tests show that at 30 percent, the machines cannot distinguish between Gordon Brown and Mel Gibson -- or between Osama bin Laden and actress Winona Ryder."

Full Report Here at HS Daily Wire

Fingerprints on Paper Detected using Heat

Two University of Technology, Sydney students develop a method which relies on the application of heat to the sample, with the fingerprint development accomplished in a matter of seconds

The method developed by the two students relies on the application of heat to the sample, with the fingerprint development accomplished in a matter of seconds. "This was an interesting approach, as originally the aim was to make fingerprints colored using chemicals, but the students noticed that the application of heat alone could actually develop fingerprints," said Dr. Brian Reedy, a senior lecturer and member of the Center for Forensic Science in the Faculty of Science.

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Sagem and Hitachi Combining Fingerprint and Vein Recognition

Sagem Sécurité and Hitachi Combine Fingerprint and Vein Recognition Technologies


Sagem Sécurité (SAFRAN group), the world leader in biometrics, is partnering with Hitachi, an engineering and information technology giant, to develop a multimode biometric recognition module. Developed and produced by Sagem Sécurité, this module will combine the best of Hitachi's vein imaging technology (VeinID) and Sagem Sécurité’s fingerprint identification technology (MORPHO).

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Identity Theft in US Number 1 Complaint

"Network World" reports that "for the ninth year in a row identity theft - particularly in Arizona and California -- was the number one consumer complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission in 2008. Of 1,223,370 complaints received in 2008, 313,982 - or 26%- were related to identity theft.

The Federal Trade Commission‘s list in the "Consumer Sentinel Network (CSN) Data Book for January-December 2008, (worth a download) states that credit card fraud was the most common form of reported identity theft at 20%, followed by government documents/benefits fraud at 15%, employment fraud at 15%, phone or utilities fraud at 13%, bank fraud at 11 %and loan fraud at 4%. The CSN received over 1.2 million complaints during calendar year 2008."