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 ...

A digital passport authentication project in the UK will include the participation of IDEMIA. This deal marks the latest digital ID development in that country, and an example of a potential ...

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 ...

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 ...

Biometric ID for first responders could help police and firefighters better respond to emergencies. Those authentication technologies, however, come with risks and challenges, according to a new draft ...

It’s essential for organizations to defend their IT infrastructures with cybersecurity that is sufficiently robust to deal with relevant threat levels and avoid unauthorized access to company assets.

All signs are pointing toward a pending golden age for iris recognition biometric technology. Citing falling costs, robust applications and more mature hardware, many experts predict the scanning of ...

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 ...

The idea of the GET Mobile Driver’s License (mDL) offering – or GET Group NA’s other mobile ID products – is to enable citizens and issuing agencies to expand the trustworthiness of a physical card to ...

2021 Women in Biometrics awardee Amy F. Turluck serves as Director of the Department of Defense Biometrics Operations Directorate, Defense Forensics Science Center. After nearly three decades in the ...

Canada’s Scotiabank is now offering its customers Visa payWave-enabled contactless credit cards, including the ScotiaGold Passport Visa, Scotia Momentum Visa and SCENE Visa. The new cards will enable ...

Identity and authentication provider SecureKey is working with IBM and Canadian authorities to leverage blockchain and digital identity. The goal is to give consumers a fast, secure way to verify ...