The Texas prison system will be the first in the United States to use prisoners’ fingerprints to check for their immigration status, according to a Houston Chronicle article. The officials from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (DoCJ) will be utilizing a new federal program to help obtain the background information on their inmates. Specifically, […]

Smarter Security Systems (SSS), a provider of physical access control and other security systems, has announced the availability of their new biometric reader. The reader, called FastScan Vascular Reader (VR), touts the same high accuracy as other vascular authentication devices available, but also operates at a rate of .4 seconds per authentication. The FastScan VR […]

Consumer finance company Dubai First and a local telecommunications company are preparing to launch the UAE’s first NFC payments pilot with a commercial rollout slated for later this year. The six month trial will involve 250 Dubai First Platinum MasterCard customers in the Jumeirah Beach Residence area of Dubai. Read more here.   

One of the hot markets to grow ID card printing sales is in higher education, suggests this article form Business Solutions. Mark Doi, director of end user sales for the education market at HID Global, says universities offer a huge growth market for ID card sales. It’s a market that includes some 4,100 four-year colleges […]

The credit card reform bill, which passed the Senate and is expected to clear the House by the end of the week, could have serious implications for students and consumers under age 21, according to an article in the Christian Science Monitor. While the bill offers young consumers special protections, those may come at a […]

Switzerland’s voters have said the country can move forward with the creation of passports containing biometric information enabling the country to stay on the United States’ visa waiver program, according to news reports. Additionally, Switzerland’s recent joining of Europe’s control-free travel zone also requires an upgrade to biometric capabilities. The legislation, however, was not without […]

Diebold Inc. announced the delivery of a security system for the Lincoln Hall building on the campus of the National Defense University (NDU) in Washington. A challenge with the access control system was how existing and next-generation Common Access Card credential would impact the new system. Diebold future-proofed the blueprint for the access system to […]