Brazilian biometric technology and service provider Griaule Biometrics has released the 2.0 version of its Griaule Biometric Framework biometric cloud service. This new release incorporates cloud and local services on its user interface to integrate biometric information into any application. The framework can enroll fingerprint, face and voice biometrics, and it has the capability to […]

Vietnam’s Mekong Development Bank has introduced a biometric debit card that can give banking services to the country’s unbanked population. The card contains biometric fingerprint authentication provided by Temenos. Mekong incorporated its T24 biometric capabilities into the T24 system the bank already uses. Mekong hopes to increase its number of accounts. Throughout the country, only […]

The U.S. federal government has placed an order with Precise Biometrics for the Tactivo smart casing for smart card and fingerprint authentication to mobile devices. It plans to use Tactivo for several pilot projects across many federal government military and civilian agencies. Tactivo enables companies and organizations to migrate authentication to mobile devices and it’s […]

The state of Kentucky has started a pilot program in McLean County to provide more secure driver’s licenses and privacy when issuing the documents. MorphoTrust USA has partnered with the state for this project and will provide new workstations, camera systems and security features in the licenses. The new license features add multiple layers of […]

The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office in Maine has invested in facial recognition technology to uncover possible scofflaws, reports The Portland Press Herald. The county bought a facial recognition software system from Dynamic Imaging Systems that will enable them to take photos of suspects and compare them to a database of inmates’ photos to see if […]

The North Dakota Department of Transportation has invested in facial recognition software that it uses in conjunction with its driver’s license division, reports The Bismarck Tribune. The software, purchased in 2010, helps the state identify people who have more than multiple licenses or IDs under multiple names. The rise of fraud and identity theft led […]

Munich-based Giesecke & Devrient GmbH has received a security certificate from Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) for its STARCOS 3.5 smart card operating system. The smart card OS covers new security functions in e-passports, residence permits and ID cards. The security certificate falls under the BSI Common Criteria Protection Profile (BSI-CC-PP-0056-V2-2012) for machine-readable […]

The U.S. GSA Office of Governmentwide Policy will be hosting an industry day on Aug. 7 to get information and answer industry’s questions from the Federal Cloud Credential Exchange (FCCX) Tiger Team. The team is a group from several agencies that are moving more government services online. It facilitates the Federal government’s adoption of identity […]

The Biometrics Institute has released its 2012 Industry Survey, a look at the trends and developments in the industry over the last 12 months. The survey also polls members of the industry to learn what will be the probable developments in the near future. In this third year of the study, the institute has found […]

e-Nabler Corporation, a cloud-based SaaS developer for mobile solutions, has certified Ingenico’s iSMP mobile payments sled for iPod and iPhone. The product’s mobile POS app eMobilePOS enables merchants to process EMV chip & PIN payment transactions in the U.S. Now that it incorporates Ingenico’s iSMP device, eMobilePOS can scan bar codes, read credit cards, process […]