VASCO Data Security Inc., a software security company specializing in authentication products, will announce at Cartes that its DIGIPASS 830a has new functionality including an alfa-numeric screen. DIGIPASS 830a combines e-signature functionality with EMV-CAP compliance. It has been enhanced to further comply with the French market emerging two-factor authentication standards and the UK APACS standard. […]

Following years of testing of the technology, James Loudermilk, a technologist from the FBI, has announced that the agency sees no point in utilizing facial recognition biometrics, according to an article from The Register. Instead, Loudermilk revealed the FBI’s plans to add iris scans to their database that now holds both fingerprint and DNA data […]

With programs such as the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) that track non-U.S. citizens entering the country via biometric data in place, select members of congress are now pushing for a similar system to be enacted that would also track those leaving the country, according to a Fierce Government IT article. The […]

The school board in Pittsburgh, Pa. has issued an order that gives their middle and high school students a couple weeks to sign-up for the school lunch program that sees them using biometric data as a form of payment rather than refillable debit cards or passwords connected to lunch accounts, according to a Post Gazette […]

Datacard Group, a secure ID and card personalization solutions provider, is piloting an instant issuance program with the Mountain America Credit Union in Utah. Working with Problem Solved, Datacard developed, implemented and supported instant card issuance software that is integrated with the credit union’s existing Symitar host system, and is also interfaced with Pemco, a […]

As part of its Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has begun issuing RFID-enabled ID cards to four Native American tribes, including the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, the Pascua Yaqui of Arizona, the Seneca Nation of New York, and most recently the 28,000-member Tohono O’odham Nation of Arizona. As of June […]

SMARTRAC has been selected as the supplier of contactless RFID inlays for the public transportation ticketing projects in Seville, Spain, and Riga, Latvia. SMARTRAC’s credit card sized ChipLink inlays, which are produced in the company’s factory in Malaysia, will be delivered to Paragon Identification of France, the who will convert them into finished paper tickets […]