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HARRISBURG, Pa., June 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Pennsylvania State Police crime laboratory system has earned accreditation again under a new international inspection and renewal program. "I'm proud that the lab accreditation has been renewed," said State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan. "This accreditation ensures the department's seven laboratories are capable of continuing to provide accurate and reliable scientific results." Ralph Keaton, executive director of the...

HARRISBURG, Pa., May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Pennsylvania Department of Aging will soon begin using an electronic fingerprinting process to screen people applying to work in a long-term care facility or home health care agency. As of June 4, manually submitted background check requests will no longer be accepted by the department. "In addition to enhancing the protections provided to our older adults, electronic fingerprinting will help us to more quickly...

London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MET) will be equipping their officers with mobile fingerprint scanners to use on those suspected of criminal charges. Scotland Yard has already distributed 350 of these mobile scanners, which are about the size of a cell phone, to officers all over London. With this technology, officers can also check the identity of unconscious or fatal victims at accidents. The MET is the 25th police force in the UK to implement these mobile identification...

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Validity Sensors, Inc., the leader in Natural ID authentication, announces that Chief Technology Officer, Sebastien Taveau, will participate in a panel discussion on "NFC Proximity Mobile Payments" at NFC Solutions Summit 2012. The session will take place on Wednesday May 23, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, in Burlingame, CA. At the event, Taveau will discuss the chip-to-cloud security continuum and how both risk...

Using statistical tool, researchers are able to track where the melting that contributes to sea level rise happens It was used to help Apollo astronauts navigate in space, and has since been applied to problems as diverse as economics and weather forecasting, but Harvard scientists are now using a powerful statistical tool to not only track sea level rise over time, but to determine where the water causing the rise is coming from. As described in an April 23 paper in the Proceedings of...

WASHINGTON, May 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110428/DC91889LOGO) SATURDAY, MAY 19: FINGERPRINTS Profile America -- Saturday, May 19th. The first criminal case in the U.S. in which fingerprint evidence was admitted into court occurred on this date in New York City in 1911. Burglary suspect Caesar Cella was convicted by prints identified by detective...

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Validity Sensors, Inc., the leader in Natural ID authentication, announced that former PayPal Mobile Ecosystem Head, Sebastien Taveau, has joined the company as its new Chief Technology Officer, reporting to CEO Rob Baxter. In this role, Taveau will develop solutions for reducing transactional risk while improving user experience in mobile applications. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120508/CG00946) Taveau has more...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed and published a new protocol for communicating with biometric sensors over wired and wireless networks—using some of the same technologies that underpin the web. The new protocol, called WS-Biometric Devices (WS-BD), allows desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones to access sensors that capture biometric data such as fingerprints, iris images and face images using web services. Web services...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- DigitalPersona, Inc., a global provider of multi-factor authentication and access management solutions, today announced Hooters of America, LLC (Hooters) has deployed DigitalPersona's U.are.U® Fingerprint Readers to strengthen its loss prevention efforts. The DigitalPersona fingerprint readers and ITWercs Point-of-Sale (POS) software enable nearly 4,000 employees to use fingerprint readers at Hooters restaurants to authenticate...

VILNIUS, Lithuania, April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has judged the VeriEye iris recognition algorithm from Neurotechnology to be among the fastest and most accurate in a field of more than 86 algorithms and variations from nine companies and two universities in the NIST IREX III evaluation. The NIST Iris Exchange (IREX) evaluation judges the top biometric algorithms for iris recognition from providers around the world. This...