AuthenTec, a provider of fingerprint sensors and solutions, announced it has shipped more than seven million AuthenTec-enabled phones powered by the Symbian OS, comprising 14 mobile phone models using AuthenTec’s fingerprint sensors. The two companies have collaborated for more than five years. Some of the phones, which now include AuthenTec’s TruePrint-based sensors, include NTT DOCOMO’s […]

In an effort to create a system to curb forged identification papers as well as improve government agency’s abilities to properly identify citizens without proper identification on them the Israeli government has approved a motion calling for biometric passports and a database of biometric information of the Israeli citizens, according to a Y Net News […]

While the U.S. State Department and Washington States are already issuing the Passport card, some Canadian provinces are getting ready to issue the new ID cards as well, according to a report from the Regina Leader-Post. Resident of Saskatchewan will be able to apply for new Passport cards and enhanced driver licenses next April, just […]

ASK announces today that OTLIS, the Lisbon, Portugal transport operators, selected C.ticket, ASK’s contactless paper tickets, for their automatic fare collection ticketing system. The order of 25 million tickets will be delivered over the next two years. The contactless technology can be used on the metro, buses, trams, trains or the Transtejo ferry. Lisbon transport […]

Nokia, a worldwide leader in Near Field Communications (NFC) technology, is launching a new 3G handset with embedded NFC called the 6212 Classic. Re:ID podcast host Chris Corum spoke with Damien Balsan, Nokia’s Head of NFC Business Development for the Americas, about the new device. The two also explored NFC progress in the Americas, the […]

The German government has proposed and electronic ID card that would use contactless smart card technology, according to a report from Electronics Supply & Manufacturing. The new credential would be similar to the electronic passport, but could also carry an electronic signature that could be used for online authentication. Berlin-based Bitkom, a trade organization in […]

Giesecke & Devrient will produce and supply 600,000 passports and 400,000 driver licenses to the Republic of Kosovo. G&D developed both the passport and the driver’s license in close cooperation with the Kosovar Ministry of Internal Affairs, who also had EU advisors confirm that the documents met a high security standard. Several technologies protect the […]

Some 3,000 blank British passports and blank visa stickers were stolen from a delivery van, according to an Associated Press report. The supplies were being flown from a Royal Air Force base near London to British embassies overseas. Britain’s Identity and Passport Service says that contactless smart card chips embedded in the passports that store […]

The International Biometric Group has announced that it will begin testing for a new qualified product list for access control for the U.S. Transportation Security Administration. Products that make it through IBG’s testing and are included on the list will then have the opportunity to potentially be implemented at any of a number of airports […]

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has announced that they will be eliminating the $28 fee associated with signing up for the Registered Traveler program. The program, currently operating with roughly 135,000 travelers registered in the 19 airports that have adopted it, enables a traveler to get through security lines quicker at airports by giving personal […]