RegardingID Archive | UK community college employing facial biometrics

Saturday, March 7, 2009

At St. Neots Community College in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, students must now show their attendance through a facial biometrics system and PIN, according to an Autonomous Media Network Alternative News article.

The systems, provided by biometric developer Aurora, uses an infrared light camera to take the picture of a user and compare to the enrollment sample the user first supplied. Because of the use of infrared light, the camera operates equally well no matter the light conditions.

Some privacy rights groups are upset over the new biometrics systems that have been showing up in schools citing them as unnecessary solutions to nonexistent problems as well as fears over the data not being secure enough. Additionally, some privacy advocates worry that introducing systems like these into schools is simply a way to desensitize future generations to wide-spread biometric use.

As for worries over security of the data, St. Neots has assured the public that their system’s data is unique to Aurora in that it would be useless to use with nay other system and the data can not be accessed from outside sources such as hacking.

Read the full story here.

Student information at Orlando college posted online

Personal information of 9,000 current and prospective students was inadvertently posted online by Valencia College in Orlando. The school has apologized for the mistake.

The information included the students’ names, addresses, dates of birth and student ID numbers but not their Social Security numbers or financial information.

Heartland signs up more colleges

Heartland Payment Systems Campus Solutions division has recruited 12 higher education districts and campuses totaling 20 different colleges to manage the schools’ financial aid disbursement services utilizing Heartland’s Acceluraid electronic disbursement product.

Researchers developing facial recognition system to catch criminals

Researchers from the University of Notre Dame have begun researching a facial-recognition-based system they are calling a Questionable Observer Detector that would be able to identify criminals returning to the scene of the crime, according to a Network World article.

MorphoTrust USA launched as U.S.-dedicated company

A new Morpho company under the Safran group has been launched called MorphoTrust USA.

The new company, which was formed after the acquisition of three divisions and the headquarters of former biometrics developer L-1 Identity Solutions, will serve as an identity solutions provider dedicated to the U.S. market only.

Viv.ie announce planned summer release for high security face recognition solution

Viv.ie, a start-up located in Ireland working on face recognition technology, announced it is finishing a new type of facial recognition technology that does away with a number of the security pitfalls current facial recognition technology is commonly guilty of, according to a Sydney Morning Herald article.

Rhode Island DMV using biometrics to fight fraud

The Department of Motor Vehicles in Rhode Island is employing a facial recognition-based system in its license and identification card issuance programs in an effort to curb identity fraud, according to a Turn to 10 article.

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