Home Office written question – answered am ar 1 Tachwedd 2017.
Lord Scriven
Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much the Home Office has spent on facial Biometric recognition technology to date, and which companies have been paid to build facial biometric recognition systems.
Baroness Williams of Trafford
The Minister of State, Home Department
The facial Biometric technology built for the Home Office was developed as part of the original builds for the Immigration Asylum Biometric System and ePassport Gates and therefore the costs cannot be extracted individually.
The companies that have been paid are as follows:
IBM/Oberthan (previously known as Safran / Morpho)
Vision Box (Cognitec)
CGI (Cognitec)
Yes6 people think so
No1 person thinks not
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A measured and/or recorded biological parameter. Example: passport-type photo, finger print, iris detail, retina blood vessel detail, voice pattern, and DNA signature. Technically speaking, mentally stored information is also biometric, so this includes: signature or monograph, PIN number, password and passphrase.
