The Royal Canadian Mounted Police will soon be equipped with E-Seek 2D bar code and mag stripe readers that will enable Mounties to swipe the license to obtain the driver’s information rather then enter it manually. The 4,600 dual card readers are being supplied by Softchoice Corp., a Toronto-based technology solutions provider, and its subcontractor, […]

Entrust is moving forward with supporting the Master List Signing, the company announced during the ICAO Regional Seminar on Machine Readable Travel Documents, Biometrics and Security Standards in Abuja, Nigeria. The Master Signing List is a method to reduce expensive, time-consuming duplication that exists in the current e-passport verification process. The system involves countries importing […]

Dates: September 22 – 24, 2009 Location: Tampa, Florida Venue: Tampa Convention Center URL: http://www.biometrics.org/bc2009/ Contact: http://www.biometrics.org/bc2009/contacts.php Description: One of the leading Biometric conferences, BC2009 will address the important role that biometrics can play in the identification and verification of individuals in government and commercial applications worldwide. The conference is open to the general public. […]

CSC announced that the UK Identity and Passport Service (IPS), an agency of the Home Office responsible for issuing UK passports and ID cards, has awarded the company a 10-year managed IT services contract to upgrade the IPS application and enrollment system. The agreement has an estimated value of $570 million. IBM was awarded $390 […]

The Czech Republic started issuing electronic passports on April 1. Trüb AG is supplying the polycarbonate data pages with embedded chip. This chip stores the personal data, a facial image and two fingerprints of the document owner. With this new passport the Czech Republic is one of the first European Union Member States to implement […]

L-1 Identity Solutions Inc. was awarded a contract by the South Dakota Department of Public Safety for a complete driver’s license issuance system. The seven-year contract is valued at $8.8 million. The new South Dakota system provides a process that minimizes the chance for fraud to occur at any point in the issuance process. The […]

CoreStreet announced the availability of the CoreStreet FIPS-201 Suite of products to upgrade existing physical access control systems to be fully compliant with HSPD-12 and all functionality as defined in Special Publication 800-116. The company also announced that its PIVMAN products is available with Lenel and a partnership with MaxID to market PIVMAN with the […]