Brian Tarran reports: Guidelines on the use of digital fingerprinting technology are to be published later this month by the Council of American Survey Research Organisations (Casro), setting out requirements for disclosure, transparency and privacy protection when using the online survey fraud safeguard. Casro said that use of the technology in accordance with its guidelines…
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UK to share fingerprint data with other countries
The UK is to share fingerprint information with Canada and Australia, with the US and New Zealand to follow soon, the Home Office said today. The collaboration will make it easier to detect people with criminal histories in other countries, speed up deportations and establish previously unknown identities, the Home Office said. The new data-sharing…
Customers take umbrage over BoA policy
Gail Jozitis isn’t the first person to walk out of a Bank of America with an empty wallet, incensed over the bank’s fingerprinting policy. As is the case with all customers who don’t have an account with the bank, when she tried earlier this month to cash a check drawn on a Bank of America…
Fingerprint plan for Turkish ID cards raises debate
A draft bill that anticipates the use of fingerprints on national identity cards for adult citizens has sparked controversy among Turkish lawmakers. According to the draft bill, which was approved by the parliamentary planning and budget commission, a biometrical fingerprint will be included on the identity cards to be given to all Turkish citizens over…