De La Rue Identity Systems is supplying the New York State DMV with the solution to issue its new enhanced driver license. The new document includes a combination of advanced anti-counterfeit and security technologies. The new document can be used in place of passports for travel by land or sea to Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean […]

Gemalto announced it has been selected to supply Gemalto’s Sealys eTravel solution to India’s National security printer, India Security Press. This system is used to start India’s electronic passport rollout for Indian officials and diplomat, and in a second stage, the government intends to deploy it for the general public. This Sealys eTravel offering forms […]

FBI Director Robert Mueller testified in front of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on the Judiciary about the IT advance the agency is making. Of particular note is the FBI’s Next Generation Identification system that will add other biometric technologies and information to the criminal database. “It will also produce faster returns of information, […]

More than 200 Southwest Airlines pilots will participate in a biometric screening program at Baltimore Washington International Airport over the next two months. The SecureScreen program is using biometric and identification technology from Chicago-based Priva Technologies. Southwest pilots participating in SecureScreen undergo enrollment using Priva’s Cleared Security Platform, which stores their fingerprints, photograph, and other […]

Spring and Verifone have teamed up to develop a system for New York taxis that give travelers the ability to pay with a credit card, GPS-based location and mapping, weather updates, national and New York City entertainment and city news This partnership has resulted in equipping 6,600 NYC taxis with a real-time integrated payment and […]

The Smart Card Alliance Physical Access Council has announced new officers and steering committee and upcoming projects for the next year. Upcoming activities include a white paper on interoperable identity credentials for the air transport industry, recommendations for enhanced Wiegand message formats to support FIPS 201-related implementations, and an in-person council session at the Smart […]

HID Global announced that it is expanding its products in the access control space to include logical access control products. The new products will enable HID’s physical access products to be used for logical access as well. As part of the announcement, HID says its iCLASS contactless smart cards can be read by the embedded […]

A Carleton University student is charged with breaking into the school’s computer network and exposing the personal information of 32 students, according to a report in the Ottawa Sun. Mansour Moufid is charged with mischief to data and unauthorized use of a computer. The penalties for the charges range from fines to jail time. Moufid […]

Cryptomathic has released a new product that the company says will accelerate the speed of inspecting electronic passports. There have been concerns about the time it will take for e-passports to be read at border checkpoints with extended access control (EAC) systems. EAC is an additional security protocol that will be used on European Union […]

Sargent and Persona have announced a new physical access control system for college campuses. The SARGENT Passport 1000 lockset, available in offline and WiFi-enabled versions, is an electronic locking system that operates with PERSONA Campus software. The Grade 1 lock utilizes magnetic stripe and PIN code technologies for dual validation that can be customized to […]