Nearly half of all United Nations (U.N.) member states are now issuing biometric e-passports, according to the newest data from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the U.N. agency ...

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 ...

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 ...

Digital ID technology, already on the upswing during the pandemic, has gained an even higher profile in recent weeks as governments try to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and reopen their societies ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the Bahamas continues to recover from Hurricane Dorian, facial recognition backed by blockchain and digital ID are helping the effort to account for people still missing from that August storm.

Infineon successfully supported an instance of next-generation, post-quantum cryptography (PQC) on smart cards using an off-the-shelf contactless chip. This is key in that within the next fifteen ...

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 ...

Blockchain has given birth — OK, that’s hyperbole, but news has emerged of the first “blockchain baby” born earlier this year in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The news underscores the role that digital ID ...

The Apple fingerprint scanner in touchscreen patent reportedly was filed nearly three years ago, in the third quarter of 2013. Any new fingerprint scanner on Apple devices as a result of the ...