Identity Theft In Water

Biometrics is described as the use of human physical features to verify identity and has been in use since the beginning of recorded history. Only recently, biometrics has been used in today’s high-tech society for the prevention of identity theft. In this paper, we will be understanding biometrics, exploring the history of biometrics, examples of today’s current technology and where biometrics are expected to go in the future.

It is important to note that the main applications of biometrics are utilized for preventing fraud and ensuring security. The use of biometrics has increased tremendously but so has social, ethical, privacy, practical and even political issues associated with it (Duquenoy, Jones & Blundell, 2008). Following is the detail regarding its ethical and privacy issue implications.

Water contamination is vastly becoming an alarming issue across the world. We rely on clean water to survive, yet right now we are heading towards a water crisis. Changing climate patterns are threatening lakes and rivers, and key sources that we tap for drinking water are being overdrawn or tainted with pollution (www.nrdc.org). Clean and plentiful water is the cornerstone of prosperous communities. Yet as we enter the 21st century, swelling demand and changing climate patterns are

The physical protection of information, personnel, software, buildings and other material resources are the first thing that should be assessed when looking into security, obviously there are unavoidable disasters such as natural disasters, man-made disasters and loss of electricity, air or water but most issues are preventable, by monitoring who has access to what and how much access they have, by locking rooms and PC’s, using person specific swipe cards, bolting computers to desks, having effective CCTV in place, and by having effective monitoring tools an IT team can keep a close eye on valuable data and prevent risks. Electronic security systems are designed to protect against unwanted personnel and they provide free roaming for wanted personnel. An electronic security system is a series of biometric locks, or a single biometric lock. A biometric lock is a system that can provide control of entry (or exit) within a designated area by the use of an electronic locking facility. The most common biometric lock is a pin pad system which is a keypad that requires the exact combinations of keys to open the lock, the keys are generally numbers but can be emphasised as letters, shapes, or sounds. Secondly and commonly are swipe cards which are encoded cards which hold information on the user, there is normally a swipe slot to enter a facility that have chosen to

Biometrics is a method of identifying an individual based on characteristics that they possess, typically physiological features such as a fingerprint, hand, iris, retina, face, voice, and even DNA. Some methods of biometrics security even use multiple physiological features or multimodal biometrics to provide superior security than a single form of biometrics can provide. Why are biometrics important in the field of information security? Biometrics provide a remarkable amount of security for information because biometrics are unique to each person, and thus cannot be lost, copied, or shared with another individual. This security allows for biometrics to provide a means to reliability authenticate personnel. The importance of biometrics can be further divided into the history of biometrics and why it was devised, past implementations of biometrics, current implementations of biometrics, and future implementations of biometrics.

Biometrics is the process of collecting, processing and storing a person’s physical characteristic to be utilized for identification authentication. By utilizing this technology, the government can register each person, link information to each of our unique identifiers from multiple sources, and use the resulting repot to continually assess the amount of risk each person poses to the state. Biometrics is becoming more popular as it allows positive identification by characteristics such as retinal scans, fingerprints, voice recognition, digital photographs, and other means. The United States Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program, began in 2004, is registering most visitors to the United States by photograph and digital finger scans; the results are stored in a central database as well as in a computer chip in each visitor’s visa. This could result in a worldwide identification system for

We live in a world today, in which technology moves at a very rapid pace. Many of these technological advances can be used to make our everyday lives easier and safer. One of these new technologies is Biometrics. Biometrics is the process of measuring a person’s physical properties. This would include measuring things like fingerprints, retinas, odor, vein structure on the back of the hand and many other things. Biometrics is a very important topic because it would create better security precautions for certain places that need to be secure. Biometrics will make our society safer by only allowing authorized people out of secure facilities and by keeping the unauthorized people out. Throughout the rest of this

Biometric recognition plays an important role in the field of security for any system. For embedded system it plays a significant role. As we know ATMs and smart phones are the most used smart devices that we interact daily, is needs to be secured. For this reason it must have a secure system that can provide security to save our personal things. For securing them there are lots of ways that are introduced in the past years. Biometric recognition is one of them. In the field of biometric recognition face, fingerprint, voice and retina are used to recognize an individual. Iris recognition is one of them. (Jain, A.K, 2004) Every human has a different body characteristic. One will never be same like another. Eye is one of them.

The idea of using someone’s body as a form of their identification has been a concept put to use for thousands of years. Although, since the incorporation of biometrics - the measurement and analysis of unique physical or behavioral characteristics (Merriam-Webster, 1902) - in the early 1900’s, the primary focus has been to advance private security and accessibility. When first introduced, biometrics were used in the public sector of the economy to help identify people, in ways such as: health care, police investigation, military usage, etc. Within recent years, the demand for biometrics, due to its attractiveness in the security field, not only led to a shift in economic sectors but to an overall expansion in the biometric companies; as well as, lead to an increase in their gross income. And with a shift in economic sectors and a rise in revenue, the debate is whether the pros will outweigh the cons, and if biometrics is the most beneficial outcome for the country at whole.

Just glancing at a photo ID is not enough, however. The hi-tech fashion in airport security today is biometrics. Biometrics includes checking fingerprints, retinal scans and facial patterns using complex computer systems to determine whether someone is what they say are - or if they match a list of people the government has determined may be potential terrorists.

Biometric is a growing technology not only in India but in entire world, which can be used in airport security, building access, cars, schools etc. A biometrics system is a recognition system that authenticates a person by his/her different biometrical factors.

Nowdays, security and privacy is a major concern of our data that’s why we can use biometric techniques for identification and recognition of users for creating secure system. Biometrics refers to the identification of humans by their characteristics or traits. A biometric system is a technological system that uses information about a person (or other biological organism) to identify that person .A Biometrics system is a pattern recognition system that uses various patterns like iris patterns, retina patterns and biological traits like fingerprints, facial geometry, voice recognition and hand recognition etc. This paper deals with various biometric systems by defining their advantages and disadvantages.

Improved accuracy and improved convenience are two of the biggest benefits of biometric technology for personal identification. First, unlike passwords or PIN numbers, which can be used by anyone who knows the required information, biometrics looks at a

As the world evolved into a more electronic society, the possibility of using microprocessors to automate identity verification began to occupy the minds of individuals in both the military and commercial sectors. This led to the development of the hand geometry reader. It was a large and clunky device, but it worked. Refinements later yielded a much smaller and considerably enhanced hand geometry reader that became one of the cornerstones of early biometric industry. At the same time fingerprinting verification was being steadily improved to the point where it became a reliable method for verification. It wasn't until recently that there has been interest in iris scanning and facial recognition techniques, which offer the potential of a non-contact technology. The last decade has seen the biometric industry expand from a handful of specialist manufacturers, to a global industry poised for tremendous growth as large scale applications start to unfold.

Biometrics is used in many places and there is a bright future for them. Coca Cola has recently replaced time card system with hand scanning machines. Finger print scanners are being used in many states of the US. They have been used to trace social welfare fraud. An iris pattern identification system is being used in Cook County, Illinois to ensure that right people are released from jail. ATM machines have been installed with finger scanners to prevent theft and fraud in Indiana (Jain, 2005).