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Central Information Management System for the Registered Traveler Program

by Colleen Chamberlain, Director of Transportation Security Policy, American Association of Airport Executives http://www.rtconsortium.org/pressRelease.cfm?relId=15 Transportation Security Clearinghouse Announces Launch of World's Most Advanced Interoperable Information Management System of Its Kind: System Will Enable Operation of Nationwide Registered Traveler Program ALEXANDRIA, Va., November 27, 2006 ? Today, the Transportation Security Clearinghouse (TSC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of

IRIS ID2022-08-31T15:57:01-04:00November 27th, 2006|News|

Get ready for the hotel of the future

by Dave Ellis, CNNMoney.com http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/14/news/companies/hotels_future/index.htm From self check-in to iPod docks to rooms that literally take your temperature, your next hotel stay could be light years ahead of expectations. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - It could have been the front desk clerk who moved at a snail's pace or that sorry excuse for a thermostat that

IRIS ID2022-08-31T15:57:03-04:00February 14th, 2006|News|

Eye Scan Technology Comes to Schools

by ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1539275 A New Jersey School District Is Piloting the System Parents who want to pick up their kids at school in one New Jersey district now can submit to iris scans, as the technology that helps keep our nation's airports and hotels safe begins to make its way further into American lives.

IRIS ID2022-08-31T15:57:04-04:00January 25th, 2006|News|

Your iris is the key

by HotelChatter.com http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2004/10/12/191812/90 Had it up to here with those flaky plastic keys? Maybe you should try using your eyes to open your hotel room door instead of those expired old keys. Back in July, right before the Democratic National Convention, Nine Zero, became the first hotel in the world to install the option of

IRIS ID2022-08-31T15:57:07-04:00October 13th, 2004|News|

LG biometric technology to meet Middle East security challenge

by AME Info http://www.ameinfo.com/news/Detailed/46865.html The latest software breakthrough from global and regional digital leader LG Electronics will help both business and government in the Middle East to meet the growing security challenge, according to top company officials. An Arabic language version of the latest generation LG IrisAccess 3000 authentication technology was unveiled today at the

IRIS ID2022-08-31T15:57:08-04:00October 6th, 2004|News|

As TSA Registered Traveler Program takes off, DHS Secretary Ridge

by AP Photo/Kevin Wolf http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040903/480/wx10309031705 Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge looks into an iris camera as he becomes a 'registered traveler' at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., Friday, Sept. 3, 2004. The airport joined four others in a test program that allows air passengers to submit to background checks in exchange for avoiding extra

IRIS ID2015-01-22T15:30:48-05:00September 3rd, 2004|News|

Registered traveler program displayed at Reagan National

by Wilson P. Dizard III, Government Computer News http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/27155-1.html Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge and transportation security administrator David Stone this morning highlighted the last of five pilot sites for the Registered Traveler program, under which airline passengers are prescreened for faster passage through security. "With the continuing success of pilot programs in Minneapolis, Los

IRIS ID2022-08-31T15:57:08-04:00September 3rd, 2004|News|

Trading Privacy for Convenience

by Sara Kehaulani Goo, Staff Write, Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30178-2004Aug24.html Steve Daniels leaned forward for a machine to take a photo of his eye, then placed his right index finger on a small digital scanner. Instantly, a large black and white image of his fingerprint appeared on a screen. The image wiggled slightly as Daniels moved

IRIS ID2022-08-31T15:57:08-04:00August 24th, 2004|News|

Frequent fliers sign up at airport

by Tom Ramstack, Washington Times http://washingtontimes.com/business/20040823-091654-6720r.htm When the program is operating, a special lane at security checkpoints will be reserved for them where they can be identified by looking into a "registered traveler kiosk" for a few seconds. A scanner behind a round hole on the kiosk will probe their eyes for unique characteristics that

IRIS ID2022-08-31T15:57:09-04:00August 23rd, 2004|News|

Feds, Logan debut flier fast lane

by Thomas Caywood, Boston Herald http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=39194 Federal agents to snoop out your background: millions in tax dollars a year. Biometric machines that identify you at the airport by scanning an eyeball: a couple thousand bucks each. Jumping to the head of the security screening line: priceless. The Transportation Security Administration launched a trial program at

IRIS ID2015-01-22T15:34:42-05:00August 10th, 2004|News|