2014 marks the 40 th anniversary of Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS). In forty short years, fingerprint matching has become a part of everyday life; from law enforcement agencies ...

ICAO estimates that as of July 2011, these 93 states have issued more than 345 million e-passports, of which almost 340 million are in circulation. As per ICAO specifications, each of these documents ...

Applications will be accepted for the Florida mobile driver’s licenses in 2021, and the state has tapped Thales to provide verification and other services for that digital ID program. As Thales put it ...

Digital ID for homeless powered by blockchain technology could make like easier and save the hassle of replacing lost IDs—that’s the idea behind a test under way in Austin, TX. The pilot program in ...

When you’re chasing down international criminals, the last thing you need is a passport inspection slowing you down at the border. That’s the idea behind the new travel documents issued to officers of ...

Chinese digital ID will merge with smartphone-based payments in a project scheduled to roll out soon. The project, which also involves facial recognition, will put the country’s all-important and ...

SSARM is one of the leading IT systems integrators in Bulgaria and was awarded a major contract to equip Bulgaria’s aviation hubs with EES-compliant border control solutions following a tender by the ...

More research backs up what we already know about passwords: despite the warnings, we’re still rampantly reusing them across multiple accounts. The habit exposes individuals to identity theft and ...

Biometric developer Tascent released its latest device, the InSight One, which combines both iris biometrics and facial recognition in a sleek, compact unit. About the size of a shoebox, the InSight ...

The newly announced Catalan digital ID initiative will use blockchain technology to empower citizen service in the northeastern corner of Spain. The regional government of Catalan reportedly has ...

A growing number of cities are making it possible for residents to prove their identity to local agencies and institutions without having to present a driver license. With the adoption of municipal ID ...

Lenel Systems International will be using HID Global’s EasyLobby Secure Visitor Management software integrated with Lenel’s OnGuard access control application to enable end users to grant different ...