Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Firms' biometrics records "can be hacked" / Computerworld UK, 19 March 2008
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=11748
"Fujitsu Siemens said biometrics is increasingly being used in the business world to verify whether individuals really are who they say. By 2013, Fujitsu Siemens predicts biometric identity technology will be so widespread in the private sector that the number of people included would rival that of the proposed national ID schemes. [...]
But the tracking and monitoring of people could be a risk if security controls were not tightened up, the IT company said..."