{"id":966,"date":"2018-07-05T10:24:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T09:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/eda-news\/?p=966"},"modified":"2018-07-05T10:24:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T09:24:48","slug":"dr-richard-guest-contributes-to-government-report-on-biometric-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2018\/07\/05\/dr-richard-guest-contributes-to-government-report-on-biometric-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Richard Guest contributes to Government Report on Biometric Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Richard Guest, Deputy Head of School and Reader in Biometric Systems Engineering in the School of Engineering and Digital Arts, has recently contributed to a Government report on Biometric Technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Biometric technologies identify individuals based on their distinguishing physical and behavioural attributes, such as fingerprints, face, and voice. Unlike passwords or traditional identity documents, biometric attributes are inherently linked to a person and cannot usually be lost or forgotten, potentially providing greater security and convenience.<\/p>\n<p>The Government briefing focuses on how these technologies work, their applications, and the policy challenges raised by their use and can be accessed at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/researchbriefings.parliament.uk\/ResearchBriefing\/Summary\/POST-PN-0578\">POSTnote 578<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Richard Guest, Deputy Head of School and Reader in Biometric Systems Engineering in the School of Engineering and Digital Arts, has recently contributed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2018\/07\/05\/dr-richard-guest-contributes-to-government-report-on-biometric-technologies\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39150,"featured_media":968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[178002,197040,124,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}