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2009 Biometrics Institute Australia Conference & Exhibition

Monday, April 6, 2009

Dates: May 28 – 29, 2009
Location: Sydney, Australia
Venue: Amora Hotel Jamison
URL: http://www.biometricsinstitute.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=154
Contact: member@biometricsinstitute.org
Description: This is the 10th Biometrics Institute Australia Conference which is the leading biometrics event in the region presented by the not-for-profit Biometrics Institute Ltd. This event will give you access to the key players in the Biometrics Industry and you can share your experiences with other biometrics users. [end] 

A Japanese researcher has developed a biometric that could be used to protect a car from theft: butt biometrics, according to verge.com.

Shigeomi Koshimizu, an associate professor at the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology in Tokyo has developed the technology. A seat pressure map to generates 39 indices that are used to uniquely identify a subject’s posterior. Results so far have been encouraging, with average false reject rates of 2.2% and false accept rates of 1.1%.

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The Rising pan-European and International Awareness of Biometrics and Security Ethics (RISE) Project has announced it will be concluding its biometrics conference covering responsible research and innovation in biometrics on December 1 - 2.

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Dates: March 5-7, 2012

Location: Las Vegas, Nevada

Venue: Mirage Hotel

URL: Click here

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The Biometrics Institute, an Australia-based professional organization representing and promoting biometric companies and organizations, has launched its 2011 Industry Survey. The group is asking its members and other stake holders for information surrounding their own views of the current industry and the expected future specific to both the Australia and New Zealand region as well as other regions around the world.

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Privacy advocates in Canada have been raising concerns over the risk involved in two new biometric programs from the government that result in the sharing of private biometric data with other countries’ governments and possibly private corporations, according to an Embassy Magazine article.

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The Biometrics Institute, a biometrics industry organization engaged in the research, analysis and education of biometric technologies, announced the release of a privacy charter for early, according to a CIO article.

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