Government ID, Smart Cards, Identification and Authentication

Episode 45: The European eID landscape

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Many European countries are starting to issue electronic IDs to citizens. Frost & Sullivan Analyst Yiru Zhong talks about the different initiatives with Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin.



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