DigitalPersona has received India’s Standardization Testing and Quality Certification (STQC) for two of its biometric fingerprint readers, the Eikon Touch 500 with TouchChip TCS1 Sensor and the U.are.U 4500 Reader UID edition. The two products are USB-based single fingerprint scanners. With the certification, the scanners can be used by the UIDAI Program in India. The […]

Visa has announced it’s added a migration path for debit cards to adopt the EMV chip for use in ATM transactions. Part of this plan involves Visa providing some of its proprietary EMV chip technology to the industry to aid in the process of EMV chip implementation for this segment of the card industry. Part […]

Increasing security concerns, such as terrorist attacks, mass shootings and other criminal activity will be a factor in the growth of the fingerprint biometrics market, says Global Industry Analysts Inc. (GIA) in a new report entitled “Fingerprint Biometrics: A Global Strategic Business Report.” GIA projects this market to reach $10 billion globally by 2018, with […]

At this week’s Smart Card Alliance Payments Summit, the Smart Card Alliance Payments Council wrapped up its 2012 activities and announced its leadership for the coming year. The Payments Council focused on EMV and NFC payments over the last year, working on educational efforts, including its EMV Connection web site. The council also announced its […]

PortalGuard’s Authentication Platform now offers five ways to provide layered authentication for webmail and the Outlook Web App (OWA). Users can choose from a variety of two-factor authentication methods at login, which enhances the OWA simple password authentication process. These include transparent one-time passwords (OTPs) and a transparent tokenless toolbar browser plugin that creates time-based […]

Pakistan’s National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has decided to end its program for issuing smart identity cards to Pakistanis overseas, reports Geo News. The decision came after both the foreign office and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had reservations about the program. These included concerns about the fact that a foreign company had been contracted to […]

The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) school board in India will be introducing a biometric attendance system in 456 primary schools when the new academic year starts in June, reports Indian Express. The project has cost Rs 10 million to implement, and it covers lower and upper primary municipal schools, 3,600 teachers, non-teaching staff and about […]

India’s Home Ministry has proposed issuing smart biometric resident ID cards through its National Population Register (NPR), a move which some say is duplicating the fforst of the UIDAI program. As reported by The Economic Times, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is putting together a group of ministers to explore whether or not these programs duplicate […]

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) in the Philippines has started a pilot of the Bus Management and Dispatch System (BMDS) that will regulate the number of public utility buses (PUBs) in Edsa and monitor the bus drivers using biometric fingerprint scans. The program will be implemented at the MMDA bus terminal at Fairview, Quezon […]

At this year’s Presidential Inauguration, security and access control firm XTec, helped provide mobile accountability, identity validation and tracking capabilities for the District of Columbia Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency and the District of Columbia National Guard. The two groups used XTec’s XNodes and AuthentX physical access control readers for identity capture and authentication. […]