Switzerland’s citizens are set to vote on whether or not they want passports and ID cards embedded with chips containing biometric information, according to a Swiss Info article. This past March the Swiss parliament approved a country-wide implementation of biometric passports and ID cards for their citizens, however, the program’s opponents collected 55,000 signatures to […]

Following a seven year trial for the technology, Australia is ready to being full implementation of facial recognition checkpoints for border control at their airports called SmartGate, according to a ZDNet article. The system has already been implemented at Qantas, Brisbane, Cairns and Melbourne for Australians with biometric chip embedded e-passports and is expected to […]

Secure identity provider HID Global has rolled out its latest card personalization software, Asure ID 2009, that features an intuitive user interface and incorporates user-tested tools that make ID card design, data entry and data management easy for any type of user. In addition, Asure ID 2009 comes with an underlying software architecture built on […]

HID Global announced that it has been selected to supply its Fargo HDP5000-LC printer/encoders to the U.S. Department of Defense Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC). As part of the DMDC’s migration to the next generation of ID card printers, the HDP5000-LC units will be utilized throughout the DMDC. The primary use of the Fargo HDP5000-LC […]

GlobalPlatform, the international smart card specifications association, has released figures showing an estimated annual increase of 15% in the total number of smart cards that use the GlobalPlatform Card Specification as the basis for card infrastructure. The organization estimates that since October 2007, the number of deployed GlobalPlatform based smart cards has risen from 265 […]

The first phase of the United Kingdom biometric ID card system was unveiled to some citizens and politicians upset over the program, according to a ZDNet article. This first phase requires foreign nationals to get new ID cards with fingerprint data on them. The data will be stored indefinitely on a UK Identity and Passport […]

Thirty five finalists are in the running for 10 Sesames awards that will be presented during the 2008 edition of the CARTES & IDentification show Nov. 4-6 in Paris. At first there were 233 entrants, but the field has been cut to 35. It’s a field which features some of the top names in the […]