The Biometric Database Law is an Israeli law which the Knesset passed in December 2009, determining that fingerprints and facial contours would be collected...
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first biometric identity documents in July 2009. An individual's data, including their biometric information (thumbprints) is captured in the database. A...
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A biometric passport (also known as an electronic passport, e-passport or a digital passport) is a passport that has an embedded electronic microprocessor...
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Biometrics are body measurements and calculations related to human characteristics and features. Biometric authentication (or realistic authentication)...
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and maintaining a database of the biometric templates for all voters. A biometric voting project might include introducing biometric registration kits...
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Next Generation Identification (category Biometric databases)
Database?". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved 4 August 2021. Kofman, Ava (June 1, 2016). "The FBI Wants to Exempt Massive Biometric Database From...
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system of registering 150 million citizens, NADRA launched the Multi-Biometric National Identity Card project developed in conformance with international...
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Facial recognition system (redirect from Biometric facial recognition)
connected and automated identification systems that incorporated digital biometric databases, in some instances this included facial recognition. In 1999, Minnesota...
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Speaker recognition (redirect from Voice biometrics)
bank First Direct announced that it would offer 15 million customers its biometric banking software to access online and phone accounts using their fingerprint...
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Police National Computer (redirect from Police National Database)
National Computer (PNC) is a database used by law enforcement organisations across the United Kingdom and other non-law enforcement agencies. Originally...
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Commission (EC). The NID is also a biometric, microchip embedded smart identity card. Bangladeshi citizens are required by law to possess a NID for multiple...
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Face ID (section Law enforcement access)
Face ID is a biometric authentication facial recognition system designed and developed by Apple Inc. for the iPhone and iPad Pro. The system can be used...
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Visa Information System (category Biometric databases)
European Union Visa Information System (VIS) is a database containing information, including biometrics, on visa applications by Third Country Nationals...
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Eurodac (category Biometric databases)
border-crossers over the age of 6 have their fingerprints, pictures, and other biometric data taken. These are then sent in digitally to a central unit at the...
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Some schools use biometric data such as fingerprints and facial recognition to identify students. This may be for daily transactions in the library or...
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Private biometrics is a form of encrypted biometrics, also called privacy-preserving biometric authentication methods, in which the biometric payload...
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Aadhaar (category Biometrics)
can be obtained voluntarily by all residents of India, based on their biometrics and demographic data. The data is collected by the Unique Identification...
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Visabio (category Biometric databases)
system for tracking applicants to its national visa system. It stores biometric data including fingerprints and photographs. Visabio is connected to the...
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Identity Cards Act 2006 (redirect from British national identity database)
The Identity Card for Foreign nationals was continued in the form of Biometric Residence Permits after 2011 under the provisions of the UK Borders Act...
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Identity document (redirect from Biometric identity card)
biometric information, such as a photograph, face; hand, or iris measurements; or fingerprints. Many countries issue electronic identity cards. Law enforcement...
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Association promotes the development of biometrics and its use in Europe, in general in accordance with the law, with the principles of ethics, stimulating...
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EPassport gates (category Biometric databases)
against the data stored in the chip in their biometric passport, as well as run the data against numerous databases to determine if the traveller is a security...
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Entry/Exit System (category Biometric databases)
birth, fingerprints and biometrics for a facial recognition system, and locations and times of border crossings in a database of the European Travel Information...
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Facial Images National Database (FIND) was a project managed by the United Kingdom's National Policing Improvement Agency. The database was a collection of...
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Chinese passport (section Biometric passport)
date, China had issued over 100 million biometric ordinary passports. Articles 3, 4, 5 and 8 of the Passport Law of the People's Republic of China, which...
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CNIC (Pakistan) (category Biometrics)
obtained voluntarily. It includes biometric data such as 10 fingerprints, 2 iris prints, and a facial photo. The National Database and Registration Authority...
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Illinois enacted the Biometric Information Privacy Act. The law was the first in the nation to regulate biometric data. The law requires private businesses...
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IDEMIA (section Sharing sensitive biometric data)
identity-related security services, and sells facial recognition and other biometric identification products and software to private companies and governments...
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Biometrics are used by the South African government to combat fraud and corruption and to increase the efficiency of service delivery to the public. The...
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FERET (facial recognition technology) (category Biometric databases)
large, automatic face-recognition system for intelligence, security, and law enforcement purposes. The program began in 1993 under the combined leadership...
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