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The national identity phone
[Dave Birch] There was an interesting discussion about biometrics at the Digital Identity Forum and there were some idea floating around about how biometrics could be used as part of an identity infrastructure in the mass market. Meanwhile, in Japan, DoCoMo’s new handsets include the 903i series which come preinstalled with the software required to use DoCoMo’s DCMX™ mobile credit card on DoCoMo’s iD™ platform (contactless payments), a GPS service that enables a misplaced handset to be located with a PC, biometric authentication (based on fingerprint, face or voice), the Omakase Lock and Data Security Service that enables users who lose their phone to call a 24/7 number and have the phone’s smart card and personal data locked immediately, Original Certificate which enables user identification certificates issued by service providers such as banks to be downloaded and stored in the handset and used as digital signatures for SSL client authentication. They also come with the ANSHIN-KEY, a special IC-card key carried in a wallet or handbag to automatically lock/unlock the phone depending on the proximity of the key and the phone. My new UK phone came with… well, nothing really. But it has got a much better camera than my old one.
