Government ID, Smart Cards, Identification and Authentication

Cardex 2008

Sunday, May 25, 2008

Dates: May 25-27, 2008
Venue: Cairo International Convention Center
Location: Egypt, Middle East and Africa
URL: http://www.cardex-middleeast.com
Contact: Cardex Contact

Description: CARDEX is a yearly Middle East event aimed at promoting digital identity assurance solutions in Egypt, Middle East and Africa. Over 2100 experts, industry leaders and distributors from over 26 countries are brought together yearly to exchange knowledge, build networks and business opportunity.

CARDEX is a joint exhibition and conference covering various sectors of digital identity and security i.e. passport and national ID, RFID, e-government, biometrics, banking technology, information security. Participants would come from sectors of loyalty & retail, government, banking and finance, information & telecommunication, border control and others. [end] 

In an effort to streamline passenger security, Jakarta, Indonesia’s Soekarno-Hatta Airport has opened the country’s first biometric immigration gate.

Fingerprint biometric identification provider BIO-key International, Inc. and Oakwell Engineering Limited partnered to create the new gate, designed for use by passengers with electronic passports. Passengers submit their e-passports and authenticate with a fingerprint.

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Authentication and access provider DigitalPersona released the results of a survey that found more than half of retailers rely on passwords for point-of-sale system login in, even though they also have great concerns over passwords being shared and misused.

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As part of the U.S. Department of State’s initiative to simplify and streamline customer service interactions and processes, the Office of Passport Services has started a 90-day pilot program for online passport card applications.

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The U.S. government has settled an infringement case with Leighton Technologies by agreeing to license its smart cards.

Leighton Technologies, a subsidiary of General Patent, filed a case against the federal government in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in January 2010. Leighton alleged that 54 federal agencies used its six smart card patents without authorization. Leighton’s technology was also used in e-passports.

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AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the winter 2011 issue of Regarding ID.

The interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that allows you to read the magazine as if it were on the desk in front of you.

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A state audit found that personal and financial information for students considering attending the University of Maryland were stored on publicly accessible servers that could make students easy prey to ID thieves.

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