The energy drink Lucozade is adding chips to some of its drink bottles in a contactless promotion that lets lucky Londoners ride the city’s public transportation for free. The chip on the bottom of the bottle is tapped on a contactless transit reader just as the city’s normal contactless Oyster card would be tapped to […]

Gemalto’s Trusted Services Hub is letting Mercedes drivers use mobile phones to control cars via new NFC vehicle keys. Carmaker Daimler AG’s new smartphone-based digital vehicle key will work with the Mercedes-Benz E-Class range, giving drivers the freedom to lock and unlock as well as start their vehicles using a smartphone. Gemalto enables the secure […]

Embedded card security features – or document security features – are classified into three levels based on how they are read in the field. Level 1 are overt features that can be read by the naked eye, while Level 2, Covert features require basic tools and Level 3, Forensic features can only be seen in a lab setting using sophisticated equipment. While all levels can play a role in total document security, Level 1 has emerged as the essential features as they can be verified readily with only minor training.

Promising secure biometric authentication from airport ID and check-in to boarding, Gemalto and IER launched their new Fly to Gate offering. IER is a leading developer of terminals and integrated solutions for major air and rail travel networks. Adding Gemalto’s biometric and document verification capabilities to the IER suite, the plan is to create an […]

For residents of five states that are not in compliance with Real ID and do not have a current extension, they will no longer be able to use their driver licenses for entry to Federal facilities. For more than half the country’s states and territories, however, extensions expire this year and if not rectified these citizens could be denied access to airline flights this time next year. That is if …

Automated self-service E-gates are changing the way passengers move through border control environments. Passengers scan chip-enabled e-passports and other travel documents, undergo biometric verification using face, fingerprint, or iris recognition and proceed through physical barriers such as a gate or turnstile to permit passage. Around the globe these identity …

Galois is the final winner of the fourth round of NSTIC pilots. The company and its partners will build tools that rely on biometric authentication to enable the storing and sharing of private information online and integrating mobile device, IoT and transit application for secure home applications.