Sunday, 21 June 2009

Sharing Assignment Material...

Please share any material that you find when doing individual and group research into the various topics concerning your assignments that you think may be useful to your colleagues.

To start you off...
Could be useful for the group assignmentBiometric Fingerprint Security System at Heathrow:
Announcement:http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/03/26/230008/baa-suspends-fingerprint-biometrics-security-system-at-heathrow-terminal.htm

Blog discussing the issues:http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/the-data-trust-blog/2008/03/the-cost-of-privacy-biometrics.html

5 comments:

satish kakollu said...

Bio metric finger print security system is very good with the help of this the government can avoid the terrorist attack. By implementing this system in my view it won’t affect the privacy of the individual, giving the finger print that to it will expires with in 24hours of time in no way it is going to affect the personal life.

Anonymous said...

Ok fine Satish you are right that by using bio metric finger prints Govt can avoid terrorist attack whats the use if its going to expire in 24hrs? can you make us understand in clear way?

Unknown said...

seem to be a discussion has already started.. good going

@@ satish
Privacy of the individual is the major concern while implementing this system. We do have a database where information is stored and when a person is whiling to enter into airport he has to give his finger print. The finger print scanned is matched to the fingerprint in the database and then only access is given.

Its same as of ID cards read while entering into library. Here barcode's are issued to every individual who is willing to access.

Unknown said...

Just want to share this information

Effect of using this system:
In 2005, Malaysian car thieves cut off the finger of a Mercedes-Benz S-Class owner when attempting to steal the car.

source:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/04/fingerprint_merc_chop/

some times, technology has adverse effects too.

Unknown said...

article which illustrates details and procedure how biometric system works. Hope this well help for better understanding, that how system works.

Source:
http://ecommerce.hostip.info/pages/105/Biometrics.html