Biometrics
Intelligence experts question maturity of biometrics technology
Biometrics
Written by Peter Warren   
Leaked document raises questions about viability of biometrics for ID cards

A government intelligence agency has warned that current biometric technology may not be good enough for internal Whitehall use, according to a document leaked to Computing.
 
ID card bonanza for foreign firms
Biometrics
Written by Peter Warren   
Bought and published in London Evening Standard, Daily Mail, December 31, 2004

FOREIGN companies are lined up for a multi-billion pound bonanza introducing the Government's controversial identity card scheme, with no large British company likely to be involved in leading the project.

Despite frantic lobbying to win some of the business - worth up to £3bn - involved in developing, making and administering the card scheme, foreign multinationals are in pole position to pick up the bulk of the orders, leaving British firms fighting for scraps as junior partners in foreign-led consortia likely to tender for the work.
 
Smelling out wrongdoers will put the law ahead by a nose
Biometrics
Written by Peter Warren   
Jason Burke and Peter Warren
Sunday December 28, 2003
The Observer

Farewell to black gloves, swag bags and crowbars. Deodorants will soon be the burglar's preferred tool.
Government scientists are evaluating new technology that allows people to be identified by body odour, making the tracing of criminals by their unique whiff, whether of fear, greed or excitement, a possibility within years.