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MOTORCYCLE cops are using covert video cameras as part of a new drive to reduce biker deaths across Essex. Essex Police motorcyclists, using unmarked machines fitted with cameras, have caught more than 50 speeding riders in just three weekends.
When Mitchell Crooks checked out of the county jail last month and checked into a Las Vegas hospital, the 36-year-old videographer knew he had a fight on his hands.
Consumer readiness for opt-in biometric-based identity programmes is underscored by recent findings in the Unisys Security Index research which found that consumers worldwide are willing to sacrifice some level of privacy to increase safety...
A new photographic optical system has allowed Fujitsu to build a palm vein scanner that's only about the size of a coin. The palm vein structure is much harder to replicate than finger prints and offers a higher number of reference points to...
The office of the Secretary of State, on December 17, 2009, sent a cable under the name of Hillary Clinton asking the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi to find out the motivation behind the project and to collect as much information on it as possible.
#4 Would you like to have your face scanned and your ID recorded every time you attend a public event? Don’t laugh. The San Francisco Entertainment Commission is actually proposing a new rule which “would require all venues...
Government will tell you when to stay indoors
Ads urging travelers to "tell Congress you want a trusted traveler program" will also appear at major airport terminals in June.
The Obama administration is urging the Supreme Court to allow the government, without a court warrant, to affix GPS devices on suspects’ vehicles to track their every move.
A US Department of Justice test of the CelleBrite UFED used by Michigan police found the device could grab all of the photos and video off of an iPhone within one-and-a-half minutes. The device works with 3000 different phone models...
The battle over budget cuts may gut the U.S. government's effort to make information more widely available.
WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning is being moved from the Quantico brig where he is currently being held to the prison at Ft. Leavenworth in Kansas, according to the Pentagon.
SECURED CITIES, May. 10-11, 2011, is the only conference exclusively focused on municipal video surveillance. Secured Cities 2011 is specifically designed for the needs of city managers, law enforcement leaders and system integrators who are operatin
ACLU seeks information on Michigan program that allows cops to download information from smart phones belonging to stopped motorists. The Michigan State Police have a high-tech mobile forensics device that can be used to extract information from c
Students can help to further this research by donating their data and helping to further identification research so they are more effective. Biometrics is the study of unique human traits that could be used by the FBI to identify individuals...
Scanning the ID’s of all attendees at an anti-war rally, a gay night club, or a fundraiser for a civil liberties organization would have a deeply chilling effect on speech. Participants might hesitate to attend such events if their attendance were...
The program bears more than a passing resemblance to a 2007 proposal by China that threatened to force bloggers to register their real identities and personal details via a single centralized ID system as a means...
One feature of the bill sponsored by senators John Kerry and John McCain that has gone relatively unnoticed: it doesn't apply to data mining, surveillance, or any other forms of activities that governments use to collect and collate Americans...
It works by wirelessly sending the recorded images to a database that can compare up to 46,000 points on a face, known as biometric data, and determine if they’ve got a criminal history or an outstanding arrest warrant.
Local ID card systems can be integrated with police GIS tools to keep track of the estimated 210 million "internal immigrants" in the country. That system is being tested in Shenzhen with an eye toward expanding it to 660 cities across the country.
Unveiling the scheme, he insisted the cyber ID was not a Big Brother plan by the government to snoop on web users.
Under a White House plan, the Homeland Security Department will have far-reaching oversight over all civilian agency computer networks.
To begin with, the US Government now employs cash-sniffing dogs at most international airports. If you are carrying more than $10,000 in cash and don’t declare it to the Government when coming in or out of the US, your cash will be seized.
So what does this mean in real life? What's envisioned by Obama is an end to passwords, a system in which a consumer will have a piece of software on a smartsphone or some kind of card or token, which they can swipe on their computers to log...
The administration wants people to have digital credentials that could be stored in something like an app or on a USB thumb drive. Plenty of businesses already require employees to use these sorts of tools to log on to secure email...
At distances up to 50 yards, the glasses can reportedly scan 400 faces per second, comparing 46,000 biometric points on a person’s face against a database of terrorists and other criminals. If a match is made it is indicated by a red light...
The White House unveiled a plan on Friday to create a national cyber-identity system intended to secure the privacy and confidentiality of consumers online.
Law enforcement organizations are making tens of thousands of requests for private electronic information from companies such as Sprint, Facebook and AOL, but few detailed statistics are available, according to a privacy researcher. Police and oth
Pilot program in Boston part of home audit scheme to encourage compliance with green energy standards, drive business.
The San Francisco Entertainment Commission was scheduled Tuesday to consider a proposal that would mandate ID scans for every person entering a "place of entertainment" attended by more than 100 people -- a move that immediately sparked...
