Government ID, Smart Cards, Identification and Authentication

Countries quickly recognizing INTERPOL smart card

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Eighteen months after its introduction, 31 countries have recognized the INTERPOL Global Smart eID & eVisa multipurpose, smart card credential.

The INTERPOL Global Smart eID & eVisa is a travel document secured by PKI technology that provides enterprise smart card capabilities for logical and physical access to INTERPOL facilities and networks. As a travel document, the card supports both Basic Access Control and Extended Access Control e-passport standards. It also is the basis for special visa status from granting member countries, allowing for secure enterprise access and speedier border crossings.


The card was developed through a collaboration among INTERPOL, Entrust and EDAPS. Entrust provided the PKI platform for the product.

The 31 countries that recognize the card are spread throughout five continents. An additional 60 countries are currently working on the process needed to accept the card. The Economic Cooperation Organization, Southern African Regional Police Chiefs Cooperation Organization and the African Union all support this smart card. INTERPOL is working with other regional bodies, including the European Union, to broaden its acceptance. [end] 

Large, high profile events, like the London 2012 Olympics, need to be secure while also enabling individuals to get where they need to go without too much of a security hassle. Mark Joynes, director of Product Management at Entrust, explains how security and identity plans for these events are created. He also discusses Entrust’s involvement with the Interpol employee credentials that is used for crossing borders as well as physical and logical access to Interpol facilities and networks.

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New passport-reading and biometrics technology installed at Dubai International Airport is catching increasing numbers of people who attempt to enter the country with fake identity documents, reports the Gulf News.

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Australia’s Attorney General and Ministry of Defense are exploring ways to grant reciprocation for fast-tracking each other’s citizens through customs checks in both countries, reports Australian Business Traveller.

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Within the next five years the market for smart cards, secure ICs, inlays, biometric data capture, card personalization, printing and issuance in government, health care, and citizen ID will be in excess of $72 billion, according to ABI Research.

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November 4, 2011 1:02 PM

I wish here in the US that they would start to recognize smart cards. The US is far behind the rest of the world when it comes to smart cards.

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