2007/08/23
2007/08/18
Secret Spy Court To Consider ACLU Request For Bush Spying Orders - Wired Blogs
Wired News reports: "In a surprising move, a secret spying court ordered the Bush Administration to respond to the ACLU's request for the court to reveal the legal pinnings behind its decisions that gave legal blessing to the government's warrantless wiretapping program. [...] Those orders reportedly include a still-secret decision curtailing the government's spying that led the Administration to successfully press Congress to hurriedly expand the government's spying authority before the summer recess."
Wired News reports: "In a surprising move, a secret spying court ordered the Bush Administration to respond to the ACLU's request for the court to reveal the legal pinnings behind its decisions that gave legal blessing to the government's warrantless wiretapping program. [...] Those orders reportedly include a still-secret decision curtailing the government's spying that led the Administration to successfully press Congress to hurriedly expand the government's spying authority before the summer recess."
2007/08/13
CORDIS News - EU project builds European infrastructure for testing biometrics technologies
Cordis reports: "An EU-funded project has begun work on setting up a European infrastructure for the testing and certification of biometrics components and systems. Biometric recognition systems measure the behavioural or physical traits of people. These can be as varied as iris images, fingerprints, the structure of veins in the hand, or even an individual's typing rhythm."
Comment: The EU now enjoys the same standards-setting power as the U.S., the ability to create industry-wide standards that apply for hundreds of millions of consumers and thousands of businesses. Common biometric standards across the EU could lead to a common form of identification for citizens of all the 27 member countries, perhaps even an an EU ID card. Not the mark, of course, but a milestone in ID verification technology.
Cordis reports: "An EU-funded project has begun work on setting up a European infrastructure for the testing and certification of biometrics components and systems. Biometric recognition systems measure the behavioural or physical traits of people. These can be as varied as iris images, fingerprints, the structure of veins in the hand, or even an individual's typing rhythm."
Comment: The EU now enjoys the same standards-setting power as the U.S., the ability to create industry-wide standards that apply for hundreds of millions of consumers and thousands of businesses. Common biometric standards across the EU could lead to a common form of identification for citizens of all the 27 member countries, perhaps even an an EU ID card. Not the mark, of course, but a milestone in ID verification technology.
2007/08/11
My Way News - IBM Launches System to Track Medications
AP reports: "To help the pharmaceutical industry combat drug counterfeiting, IBM is launching an electronic pedigree system Thursday that tracks medications through the supply chain until they reach consumers. The system employs radio-frequency identification, or RFID tags, which are already used to track packages of drugs, especially ones popular with counterfeiters."
AP reports: "To help the pharmaceutical industry combat drug counterfeiting, IBM is launching an electronic pedigree system Thursday that tracks medications through the supply chain until they reach consumers. The system employs radio-frequency identification, or RFID tags, which are already used to track packages of drugs, especially ones popular with counterfeiters."
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