Using technology to improve how things are done
Post categories: Future Workplace
|14:29 UK time, Thursday, 3 December 2009
We're moving into exciting times in security innovation, and BBC Workplace is looking at using new technologies to help revolutionise what we do and how we do it.
Working with BBC Technology, BBC People and other partners, we are reviewing key elements of security including Building Access, Guarding and Control Rooms where there has been a huge amount of development recently.
For example, in the area of Building Access, Smart ID cards now offer identification with a name and a photo and the ability to hold biometric data. This allows identity verification of an individual with no need to keep a database of the information. At the Olympic Park in
No decisions have been made at the BBC. Currently all options are being looked atandPrivacy Impact Assessments will be carried out to ensure that the best and most appropriate solutions are considered.
The potential of these Smart Cards doesn't stop at security alone. The BBC is also exploring possibilities around increasing the usefulness of ID cards by including functionality such as computer log-on, card controlled printing and cashless vending.
Watch this space for other interesting developments.
Comment number 1.
At 12:57 10th Dec 2009, lookingnorth wrote:I think this is a fascinating area and the power of your comment "This allows identity verification of an individual with no need to keep a database of the information" shouldn't be underestimated.
At one fell swoop we can dispose of a whole host of Information security and Data Protection risks and liabilities and hand back to people responsibility for their indentities removing many of the general concerns in the general population about identity cards too.
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