Google never cease to add new searchable things: articles and books (google scholar), blog, news … But one thing is still not searchable : people. When you do a background check on someone or just want to find you 5th grade school buddy, google is not that helpful. I always wanted to have a search engine for people. Well I was pretty astonished when I tried ZoomInfo.com This site does exactly this. At first I thought it was linkedin like but no I crawl the web and extract people information. I tried it on a couple of people I know and it work very well. Thus this is a site that you should try and bookmark right away.
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European Union member states are expected to include digital biometric information in the form of two fingerprints on all ePassports. The deadline for compliance and migration to next-generation ePassports is set by the European Union for June 28, 2009. Germany is the first country in Europe to move over to the new system, starting this november. The addition of two fingerprint images in the ePassports requires an enhanced security procedure called Extended Access Control (EAC) . If you are interested in this technology read the nice slide presentation by Dennis Kügler about it. EAC aim at providing the necessary stronger cryptography to protect privacy sensitive data and to safeguard against cloning. The chip manufacturer for Germany is NXP Semiconductors a company founded by Phillips.
I wonder when we will have the same in France and who will be the chips manufacterer. I am still against biometric passport because biometric data are irrevocable. Which means that we can cancel them. If you lost your password, you can reset it, but if you loose your fingerprint data ? What can you do ? cut your finger ?
More details about the announcement for German passport can be found on the site MoreRFID
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