A bill that seeks to introduce biometric identity authentication into elections in the Philippines has passed the country’s House of Representatives following a third reading, according to a Manila Bulletin article. The bill sees the Filipino Commission on Elections (Comelec) taking the lead on implementation as well as managing the centralized and interactive voter registration […]

New Zealand border officials are seeing half of travelers through airports use SmartGates, the automated checkpoints that use the chip on e-passports and facial recognition to confirm a traveler’s identity, according to a Dominion Post article. In response to its growing success at the airports, the New Zealand government has been considering lowering the age […]

Indigo Identityware, a developer of identity and access management solutions, has announced a new solution that brings biometric authentication and proximity card authentication to electronic signatures for prescriptions filled out by physicians. In addition to the new technology for authentication in Indigo’s solution, called eSign, there is the option of utilizing a PIN as a […]

Administrators for the city of Winter Park, Fla. have moved the city’s police department to a biometric system for securing access to records. The move is for compliance with the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division, according to a Computerworld article. The lack of compliance stems from shared passwords that often comes from sharing work […]

DigitalPersona has announced that its implementation of its U.are.U fingerprint readers in conjunction with iQmetrix retail management software at master telecommunications agency Connectivity Source. The deployment has yielded a nearly 75% reduction in time and attendance fraud. In addition to stopping fraudulent actions for hourly employees such as buddy-punching, the new solution has also given […]

BIO-key International has deployed its fingerprint recognition software to Tennessee Healthcare Systems as part of an upgraded logical access control system that would increase the convenience of access to critical systems at the hospital while also increasing security. Among the reasons the Tennessee Healthcare Systems decided to use BIO-key’s solution over competitors’ was due to […]

The pressure for banks in the U.S. to increase their security for online access to personal accounts may have reached the tipping point. The news that hackers stole information from 200,000 Citi credit cardholders may lead to financial institutions enabling stronger authentication for online access, according to a Reuters report. Much of this pressure has […]

DigitalPersona has announced a partnership with information technology software developer Quest Software to integrate DigitalPersona Pro with Quest Defender for an authentication solution. The new product is designed for use by small to medium-sized businesses primarily as a logical access control solution and enables two-factor authentication that includes one time passwords with either biometrics or […]

Identity security technology developers CardLogix and Datastrip have announced a partnership to combine technology to form a new mobile identity management solution. Specifically, the solution has combined CadLogix’s M.O.S.T., Credentsys smart card, or ePassport with DataStrip readers such as the handheld Easy Verify to develop handheld, mobile solutions for collecting fingerprint data. Among the potential […]

The Nigerian Government has announced new plans for biometric registration of its citizens that would be stored in a central database and yield biometric identity cards and a nine-digit unique identification number for each citizen, according to an All Africa article. The new program is not a new idea to Nigerians, as the country has […]