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Week 12 2010

Rene Bense   26-March-2010

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The Biometric Weekly Newsletter entries are from cases that occurred in Florida
number 12. and it contains mug shots, fingerprints, palm
prints and images of tattoos and scars.

Please give me feedback on the Newsletter A New Combination Biometric

and the website, so I Fingerprint and Smart Card Reader
am able to improve
and extend. SecuGen
announced the
For new readers who availability of the
missed the url of my SecuGen iD-USB
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Write me on: rene.bense@xs4all.nl of the box. The new unit targets the fast
growing number of projects and applications
Regards, that combine fingerprint biometrics with smart
cards. The SecuGen iD-USB SC reader contains
Rene Bense SecuGen's popular optical fingerprint sensor
with a highly scratch resistant platen and
comes in a desk mountable case. SecuGen
intends to follow this product shortly with the
Florida Accelerates Print Gathering Plan release of a fully FIPS 201/PIV compliant
version.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement
(FDLE) has Virginia Count Employs Secure
spent $7.4 Communities Strategy
million on
Project Falcon to
U.S. Immigration and
accelerate the
Customs Enforcement
progression of
(ICE) say that since
gathering palm
the agency began
and finger
using biometrics-
prints, enlarge
fingerprints-to identify
the storage
criminal aliens in
space for those
Fairfax County one
items and
year ago, ICE officers
increase electronic search capabilities. The
have identified more
Falcon Biometrics System was created to
than 1,200 aliens
tackle that problem. The FBI currently
charged with or
operates the Integrated Automated Fingerprint
convicted of crimes. As part of ICE's Secure
Identification System, which is a national
Communities strategy for improved
database for fingerprints and images used by
law enforcement agencies. The Falcon
Biometrics System is comparable, but its

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authentication and removal of criminal aliens,
ICE has removed 144 individuals, while the
remaining are in immigration proceedings or
will be removed from the United States once
they serve their criminal sentence. In March
2009, as part of the Secure Communities
strategy, ICE deployed IDENT/IAFIS
interoperability to Fairfax County law
enforcement agencies, which enables
fingerprints submitted during the booking
process to be checked automatically against
the Department of Justice's ( DOJ ) criminal
history records and DHS records, including
immigration status. When fingerprints match
DHS records, ICE is automatically notified and
promptly determines if enforcement action is
required. This process applies to all individuals
arrested and booked into custody, not just
those suspected of being foreign nationals.
Smartlinx Uses Fujitsu's Palm Vein
Authentication Technology
Smartlinx Inc. has launched SmartVM, an
eGovernance application to be used with
biometric systems. SmartVM will use Fujitsu's
Palm Vein Authentication Technology.
Smartlinx has agreed to use the SmartVM
application, which will now include the Fujitsu
Vein Authentication Technology, in the
development of a biometric based voting
system for the Forest Department of the
Government of Andhra Pradesh, India. The
application using PalmSecure scans the unique
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vein pattern located inside a persons palm to
verify them when their palm is placed on the
devices screen.
Despite Privacy Fears Biometric
Scanning Rises
With recent advances in the technology, new
biometrics systems are coming onto the scene,
such as the full-body scanners that the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security announced
will be landing at 11 U.S. airports by summer
2010. In addition, as more scanning systems
roll out, thus linking citizens to databases,
privacy advocates worry about the risks of
having personal information in the open.
"We don't want to the see
the same problems we've
seen with other identification
systems," said Lillie Coney,
associate director of the
Electronic Privacy
Information Center, a public
interest research group in
Washington, D.C. "Before people jump in the
deep end of the pool, they need to really
consider the short-term and long-term
consequences. Any information that's collected
has got to be protected."
ID Cards to Use Three Databases
UK Home Office Identity Minister Meg Hillier
says that the Identity and Passport Service has
"custom built" its own database for the identity
card scheme.
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This follows reports that the IPS had cancelled
plans to store biographical information on the
Department for Work and Pensions' database.
Hillier said that the controversial scheme has
three databases that holds the facial image
and fingerprints, the biometric data, then the
other information which is generally already on
the passport and the third bit is the one that
links the two.
UN World Food Program Signs 4G
Identity Solutions
4G Identity
Solutions Pvt.
Ltd. says it
has won a
contract with
the United
Nations World
Food Program
to expand a critical food distribution program
with the objective of eliminating fraud and
ensuring that all qualified citizens receive their
proper share of assistance. The objective was
to employ the new technology and processes
to purge fraud, so that aid gets to as many
eligible recipients as possible. The first phase
of the project, also implemented by 4G ID,
was the multi-biometric solution for
approximately one million citizens in the
Rayagada district.
The solution captured three biometrics --a face
picture, two irises, and ten fingerprints, and
demographic details of citizen. In addition, 4G
ID provided a specialized de-duplication
solution to eliminate fraud. The contract calls
for expanding the WFP's Public Distribution
System (PDS) project in the state of Orissa,
India by completing the enrollment of the
entire population of the Rayagada district and
providing an end-to-end solution for Point of
Sale distribution that works effectively in
remote areas.
G4S Justice Services LLC Selects
PerSay
G4S Justice Services LLC, an electronic
monitoring and community supervision
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company, announced it has selected PerSay as
its Voice Biometrics technology vendor. G4S
Justice Services LLC has deployed PerSay's
VocalPassword" Voice Biometrics platform in
electronic monitoring projects around the
world. The innovation behind VocalPassword
architecture will equip G4S Justice Services
LLC, with a capability to alleviate risks and
comply with high levels of standards and
requirements while providing the flexibility to
customize the voice solutions to meet each
customer's needs.
Eyes Open Medical Records in the
Bronx
The South Bronx is known for many things --
the New York Yankees, fires in the 1970s,
poverty -- but now it is known for something
usually seen at European airports. iris
identification technology at one its clinics.
There clinic employee scans patient eyes using
a handheld camera. Within seconds, the
camera reads his iris patterns, and a computer
locates his medical record. the South Bronx
clinic receives federal funding and operates in
one of the most impoverished U.S. areas uses
the instruments to prevent medical record
mishaps.
Urban Health Plan, which serves mostly the
uninsured and underserved, fully integrated iris
identification to match patients to their medical
records in 2009.
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Virtual Doormen Don't Need Tips
Doormen could be replaced or have their
duties sliced by voice and face recognition
technology. A company called Kent Security
Services provides virtual doorman services. H
undreds of buildings in New York City are
already monitored with video cameras and
audio communication instead of live doormen,
but Kent adds biometrics to the surveillance.
When somebody approaches the door, the
computer begins clicking away and takes 40
photos of the subject per second and
compares it to the photo of the resident on
file. If it's a match, you're in.. If no match is
found, the computer asks, "Do you live in the
building?" and the subject's response is
subjected to voice recognition comparison. So
far, Kent has not figured out how to get the
device to hail a taxi.
AOptix Partners with DaonAdvantage
AOptix Technologies, Inc., a developer of iris
biometrics products and long-distance wireless
optical communications solutions, announced it
has signed a partnership agreement with
Daon, a provider of identity-assurance
software products, to participate in the
DaonAdvantage Program. As part of this
partnership, the AOptix InSight iris recognition
system has been tested, certified and
integrated into Daon's identity assurance
platform. AOptix has installed its InSight
system at the Daon Demo Center in Reston,
VA as a part of a fully integrated iris
interoperability demonstration created by
Daon. Users enroll their iris images on a
traditional short-range iris system; an
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identification application then controls the
InSight to capture iris images for
authentication and performs the matching
function within DaonEngine.
E-Signing and Check Fraud Prevention
Billed as "one of the major IT-trends of the
last two years handwritten signatures are
embedded in more and more digital workflows
to guarantee authenticity. Combining the
benefits of biometric signatures and
cryptographic techniques is becoming more
and more extensive. In 2009 the European IT
security association TeleTrusT awarded its
innovation award for best practice in applied
electronic signatures to Softpro-customer CECA
- the Spanish Savings Banks Organization
(Confederación Española de Cajas de Ahorros)
for the use of SignPads for digitizing of
handwritten signatures in Spanish savings
banks. In 2010 Softpro presents this solution
as "best practice" at the leading IT-event for
the financial industry in the Gulf region -
MEFTEC in Bahrain from April 20 -21.
Speed Identity Teams with Gemalto
Speed Identity AB
has received an
order from Gemalto
AB for the supply of
signature capture
machines and photo
type Speed Capture
Light for delivery to the Swedish Tax authority.
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The equipment will be used for the production
of secure ID cards for residents in Sweden.
Speed Identity's part of the supply is
biometrics collection equipment, primarily the
innovative model Speed Capture Light,
compact and user-friendly collection of ICAO
approved signatures and facial images. The
equipment will be placed at the tax service
offices which will sum up to a hundred offices
during 2010. The large number of application
areas will mean greatly improved service to
citizens who quickly and safely will receive
their ID cards.
Biometric Dos and Don'ts
biometrics, the computerized recognition of
features such as fingerprints, irises and faces
being introduced by rich countries, and
fraudsters are in a unending competition to get
ahead of one another's technology. The need
to keep travelers moving in an age of mass
transit meant there was a trade-off between
passenger "flow" and the personal attention a
border control officer could give to a single
case.
MIT Draws Object Recognition Systems
Framework

Experts practical advice, published in CIO, list

biometric dos and don'ts that include using a
multi-modal process. The experts say
biometrics solutions will increasingly employ
more than one mode, which is more accurate
and secure. For instance, using keystroke
recognition in conjunction with face
recognition, to evaluate subjects against a
watch list, and iris recognition to perform one-
to-one authentication.

Biometric Can Limit but not Eliminate

ID Theft MIT research uses information about how
frequently objects are seen together to
improve the conclusions of object recognition
systems. At present, computers cannot
consistently recognize the objects in digital
images. Now, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology researchers have discovered a
method to advance object recognition systems
by using information about context.

A typical object recognition system will scan a

digital image for groups of pixels that differ
from those around them; those pixels could
define an edge, a corner or some other feature
of an object. If the MIT system thinks it is
identified a chair, for instance, it becomes
more confident that the rectangular thing
nearby is a table.
Although biometrics will limit identity theft it
will not be a cure all for all that ails it. While
biometric identification is more and more
vigorous, realities mean the use of false travel
documents will endure, Frank Gregory,
Professor of European Security at Britain's
Southampton University, said. Developers of

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FBI's Future Use of Biometric possibly even before the buyer knows it. The
Technology bad news is the technology is not cheap. firms
performing neuromarketing research typically
have ad budgets of $30 million to $100 million.
Help may be on the way for smaller companies
sicne Companies testing a product or
marketing campaign using biometrics typically
only have to test a tenth of the people they'd
survey in a standard focus group according to
researchers.

Training for a Manned Mission to Mars

The FBI likes technology dating back for many

decades but its future promises to be not only
high-tech but biometrically infused as well.
Among some of the more interesting items
coming down the pike: coordinating current
FBI biometric systems-such as our systems for
fingerprints and DNA-and exploring new
biometric technologies that can be turned into
usable tools for law enforcement and
intelligence agencies; ensuring interoperability
between fbi biometric systems and other
federal, state, and international biometric
systems; and developing biometric training for
our law enforcement and intelligence partners,
establishing biometric standards, and certifying
biometric products.

Neuromarketers Go Inside Buyers'

Brains
Mars 500, a test that will begin in the middle
Neuromarketing of this year in Moscow, inside a warehouse on
methods are the campus of the Russian Institute for
making headlines Biomedical Problems. There, a crew of seven
for big business. men (three Europeans, three Russian
Frito-Lay studied cosmonauts in training, and one Chinese) will
women's brains to lock themselves inside a series of rooms no
help develop an bigger than a tiny house for 520 days -- the
ad campaign, and approximate amount of time a trip to Mars
Campbell Soup would take, with a 30-day layover on the
(CPB, Fortune 500) just unveiled a packaging planet. If they last, each crew member will get
redesign based on consumers' "neurological a bounty, possibly upwards of $100,000. Most
and bodily responses" to different mockups. By of the trials will study the crew members
hooking customers up to EEG or MRI themselves, through questionnaires, fitness
machines, a company can learn about what's tests, detailed biometrics, and daily blood and
really going on inside a buyer's brain -- urine tests.

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Senators push Obama for Biometric
National ID card
Two U.S. senators met with President Obama
on Thursday to push for a national ID card
with biometric information such as a
fingerprint, hand scan, or iris scan that all
employers would be required to verify. In an
opinion article published in Friday's edition of
the Washington Post, Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)
and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) say the new
identification cards will "ensure that illegal
workers cannot get jobs" and "dramatically
decrease illegal immigration." Schumer and
Graham pitched the idea to President Obama
during a private meeting Thursday at the
White House. Graham said afterward that
Obama "welcomed" their proposal for a new
ID card law; the White House said in a
statement that the senators' plan was
"promising."
Biometric details of Census 2011 to be
synchronized with UIDAI
New Delhi— Census 2011, for which
canvassing and house-listing will begin this
April, will capture the biometric details (face,
iris and ten finger prints) of every citizen over
the age of 15, so that they can also be
assigned unique IDs by the Unique
Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). The
home ministry and the Registrar General of
India (RGI) have agreed to synchronized the
details that are to be captured in the National
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Population Registrar (NPR) being created with
the upcoming Census with the UIDAI’s
biometric standards that were unveiled
recently. In line with the recommendations of
the Biometric Committee under the UIDAI, the
NPR, will have details of face, iris and ten
fingerprints as a necessary requirement for
registration of residents. This is in order to
have a common identification standard as the
UID has an agreement to synchronized the
data feeds of the NPR into its data base.
High praise for Springfield Data Centre
The Polaris Data Centre in Queensland’s
booming Western Corridor has received praise
from one of the most respected authorities in
the international data center industry.
Following a recent data center tour of
Australia, AFCOM CEO Jill Eckhaus says she
was most impressed with the $230 million
Polaris Data Centre at Springfield (located
halfway between Brisbane and the Gold Coast)
saying it was unlike any center she’d seen
before. AFCOM is a Californian based
organization with more than 4,000 members
and 32 chapters worldwide. Springfield Land
Corporation’s Executive Director of Commercial
Development Chris Schroor says Eckhaus’
comments are high praise from the head of
such a well regarded international authority.
“AFCOM is a global organization which
commands great respect within the data
center industry. The Polaris Data Centre is
Australia’s first purpose built data center and
features high-tech security including bullet
proof glass and biometric fingerprint scanners.
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Biometrics: Hollywood Hype or Real Aware Biometrics Software Provided

World Security Solution? for Advanced Technology Workstations

Traditionally, biometrics has been the stuff of

fantasy. Hollywood films often use it to show
the evils of automation. For some, it conjures
up images of clandestine organizations and
covert activities. In theory, biometrics is a
great way to authenticate computer users that
provides a great, additional layer of security.
It’s impossible to lose your fingerprint (barring
the most gruesome of developments), and you
can’t forget it like you could a password. In
Aware products contribute key functionality to
practice, though, there are so many things
Lockheed Martin's "Advanced Technology
that, for now, limit the more widespread use of
Workstation" for NGI BEDFORD, Mass. --
this technology.
Aware, Inc., a global provider of imaging and
biometrics software, today announced that it
Some Palm Beach County school has supplied biometrics software for Lockheed
district employees frustrated with Martin's Advanced Technology Workstation
fingerprint time-keeping (ATW). Lockheed Martin recently announced
that they had successfully delivered the first
ATWs for the Next Generation Identification
(NGI) system. ATW includes several COTS
Aware software products, including NISTPack,
WSQ1000, AccuPrint(TM), and AccuScan(TM).
"Aware's partnership with Lockheed Martin
goes back to the earliest days of automated
biometric identification, when we collaborated
to enable advanced fingerprint capture and
quality assurance," said Rob Mungovan, vice
president at Aware. "We are pleased to again
be contributing best-of-breed biometrics
technology to the most advanced biometric
identification system in the world."
At 5:45 a.m. every workday, Pauline Cochran
arrives at a school bus compound near West PoC makes verification of ration cards
Palm Beach, places her thumb on a machine easy
that looks like an oversized calculator and
waits for it to recognize who she is. That rarely
happens smoothly, she says. "Those time
clocks are always breaking down," said
Cochran, a bus aide for the Palm Beach County
School District. She's one of about 15,000
hourly district employees who must
electronically punch in and out of work using
their fingerprints as part of a $2.5 million
project that has seen its share of glitches.
When the biometric "time collection device"
doesn't work, the scanner either does nothing VELUR (MEDAK DISTRICT): The villagers from
or tells Cochran to see a supervisor or punch in that particular ward came one by one to
her employee identification number. participate in the exercise being held at
Panchayat office in this tiny village with a
population of about 4,000. First they showed

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their ration cards on which the details of the

entire family were available. The staff sitting
with the laptops loaded with ration card data
of the entire village checked the details of the
ration card and made corrections wherever
required. The corrections includes names, date
of births and other important thing that need
to be entered. Once the process was over,
they were told to entered into the second
compartment where the ration cardholder
were taken a photo. Then the finger prints
were be collected with the help of finger print
scanner in 4+4+2 mode (four left fingers first
Most of us remember where we were and
followed by four right fingers and two
what we were doing on the morning of Sept.
thumbs). This should match with the individual
11, 2001. For Robert LaPenta, president,
scanning of all the fingers that would be taken
chairman and chief executive officer of
immediately. Even a small mismatch of a
Stamfordbased L-1 Identity Solutions, that
single finger scan would be warned by the
day's terrorist attacks led to an epiphany about
system and immediate correction would be
U.S. defense, and a company aimed at filling
made.
the huge, suddenly apparent, gaps. "I watched
the towers come down from my offices on 600
Biometric Car Starter introduced to US Third Ave.," said LaPenta, who was president
of a company he co-founded, L-3
Communications, at the time. "It was that
event that really was the genesis, the starting
point of me beginning to think about a new
business that ultimately spawned L-1," he said
in an interview with Hearst Connecticut
USA Supreme Technology is a US company Newspapers.
that is introducing a true Biometric Car Starter
to the US. The Biometric Car Starter is a
Schwarzenegger administration
fingerprint-ID security device using True
Biometrics. USA Supreme Technology considering buying $5,000 devices to
www.biometricsbiz.com is a US company that combat in-home care fraud
is introducing a true Biometric Car Starter to
the US. The Biometric Car Starter is a The Schwarzenegger administration is
fingerprint-ID security device offering considering buying $5,000 high-tech devices to
redundant, fail-safe automotive security. Easily photograph and fingerprint Californians who
installed, it renders vehicles inoperable to any get subsidized in-home care for the elderly and
non-authorized user. This device is a proactive disabled. The MorphoTrak "mobile biometric
barrier to theft or car- jacking, in contrast to identification" device can fingerprint, snap a
reactive systems such as GPS, basic car photo and transfer data to government
alarms, and other similar products, which emit systems, according to state social service
only noise or radio signals while a vehicle is officials. Officials say legislators authorized and
being stolen. budgeted money to invest in tools to curb
fraud and save millions of dollars. The
fingerprinting applies as of April 1 to any new
recipients of the In-Home Supportive Services
program.

Terrorist attacks spawn idea for L-1

Identity

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Upcoming Events:
March 30–April 1, 2010, San Diego, CA
Biometrics & Forensics 2010 Annual
Summit
The purpose of this summit is to assemble
leaders, warfighters, and subject matter
experts from across the Biometrics and
Forensics community to discuss how innovative
training and technology will collectively shape
the future in a way that sets the conditions for
success against any emerging threats on the
current and future battlefield. Plenary speakers
will share their expertise, vast experience, and
insights to the summit as a whole, while
breakout panel discussions, featuring experts
with a broad range of experience and
expertise, will give conference attendees an
interactive forum for focused discussions and
specific recommendations to problem sets.
April 5-6, 2010, Orlando, FL,
Biometric Technology for Human
Identification Conference
Conference chairs include: B. V. K. Vijaya
Kumar, Carnegie Mellon Univ., Salil Prabhakar,
DigitalPersona Inc., and Arun A. Ross, West
Virginia Univ.. Discussions on topics including
face analysis, fingerprint analysis, large-scale
system security and privacy, statistical
modelling and evaluation, iris and emerging
biometrics, soft biometrics and forensics,
multimodal biometrics, and face and ear
analysis. Register by March 19th to receive a
discount.
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May 4-5 Jersey City, NJ
Voice Biometrics Conference New York
2010
Don't the miss the
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Conference New York will showcase
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enforcement, and government services.
VBC New York will bring together the
experts, technology providers and practitioners
that are defining the applications and
approaches that take advantage of the fact
that each person's voice is a unique and
unobtrusive identifier, like a fingerprint.
Deployment of such solutions will be crucial to
growing phone-based banking and mobile
commerce.
As a mechanism for identity verification and
authorization that requires no dedicated
hardware, voice biometrics is gaining traction
as a legitimate enterprise security solution.
Large-scale deployments are already underway
across industries ranging from banks and
telecoms to government services and
healthcare.
VBC New York brings together the leading
voice biometric technology providers with:
• Customers and business decision
makers in various industry verticals
including financial services, healthcare
and government
• Go-to-market partners, system
integrators and solutions providers
• Research houses, government and
academic thought leaders
• Security specialists and implementers
October 20-22- Singapore
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Security Asia Expo 2010 November 1-2- Montreal

Sixth Symposium on ICAO MRTDs,

Biometrics and Security

SAE 2010 offers exhibitors and visitors more

than just the opportunity to close deals and
enhance networking. The industry-based
interactive seminars provides the latest trends
and information exchanges. Conducted by a
group of industry experts, the various seminars
will offer participants the chance to engage the
speakers and be informed of developments
that now have an impact on the regional and
global security landscape. Each seminar is
exclusive and will only accommodate up to 60 Sixth Symposium and
delegates. Additional “Breakfast Sessions” will Exhibition on
be arranged for a more up close and personal ICAO MRTDs, Biometrics and
session with the speakers.
Security Standards
The relevant and hot button topics included for
SAE 2010 include: 1 - 4 November 2010
ICAO Headquarters, Montréal, Canada
1. Building Intelligent Seminar
2. Checkpoints Security Seminar Information will be posted as soon as
3. Hotel Security Seminar available.
4. Key Infrastructure Protection Seminar
5. Public Security Seminar Click here to view details of Past Symposia.
6. Retail & Shopping Centre Security
Seminar
7. Security Technologies Seminar

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