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 ...

How a small subsidiary of Hughes Aircraft became a global leader in identity management By Zack Martin, Editor, Avisian Publications HID Global enables workers to get in the front door of offices ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To help prevent attacks on student data and protect the records of its 60,000 students and faculty while facilitating access for authorized parties, Göteborg University in Sweden recently implemented ...

Taiwan is making big progress toward its new digital card for the 24 million citizens. The most recent development, according to a report, is that the country’s cabinet in late August approved a plan ...

Q: What’s the state of e-passport issuance around the world? First, I would like to clarify the ICAO “deadlines” that have been the subjects of some confusion. The first deadline is that which has ...

Millions of television viewers watch each week as detectives pull latent fingerprints from crime scenes and catch bad guys with the help of a massive fingerprint database. Avid viewers even know it by ...

Shipping giant UPS has studied RFID for a number of years, yet hasn’t adopted the technology for its world-wide operation. The company delivered some 3.4 billion packages and documents last year.