Kosovo has begun issuing new biometric passports powered by chip technology from Switzerland’s Trüb AG. The Balkan nation of 1.7 million has contracted the Austrian State Printing House (OeSD) to manufacture the new passport booklets and integrate Trüb’s the polycarbonate film datapages, which contain an ICAO-compliant antenna and chip module that stores the document holder’s […]

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency is working together with Unisys Corp. on a Land Border Integration (LBI) project to deploy one of the first pedestrian border crossings in El Paso, Texas. The initial phase of the Pedestrian Re-engineering initiative comprises a combination of gate systems along with handheld devices and RFID technology to […]

Eighteen months after its introduction, 31 countries have recognized the INTERPOL Global Smart eID & eVisa multipurpose, smart card credential. The INTERPOL Global Smart eID & eVisa is a travel document secured by PKI technology that provides enterprise smart card capabilities for logical and physical access to INTERPOL facilities and networks. As a travel document, […]

Morpho announced that Australia’s Customs and Border Protection Service signed a five year agreement for service of the SmartGate automated biometric security checkpoint solution. The SmartGate technology operates in real-time utilizing facial recognition hardware that compares the captured data of a traveler to the data contained on the chip embedded on his e-passport. Australian Customs […]

Elyctis, an electronic ID solutions developer based in France, has announced the release of ID BOX, a new compact e-passport reader. According to Elyctis, the ID BOX provides a much cheaper alternative to current e-passport verification equipment, enabling more border control and law enforcement officers to read all the features of electronic and biometric passports, […]

XIRING, a provider of security products for electronic transactions, introduced an ergonomic handheld e-ID control terminal at the Milipol trade show. This light, portable control terminal has the ability to read both contact and contactless smart cards, magnetic stripes and fingerprints. Its dual security methodology allows users to check documents with electronic security methods to […]

Morpho has announced the launch of the new design of its MorphoWay, an automated biometric-based e-gate for use in border control applications. The redesign has given Morpho’s border security solution a more modern look with a transparent build, but also has reduced its footprint to better accommodate border-crossing environments. Like its predecessor, the newly designed […]

The European Visa Information System (VIS) launched in October giving participating states the opportunity to collect and store third-country travelers’ visa information using biometrics. The European VIS hopes to simplify visa processing for issuing and checking authorities. The system collects and stores personal data, a facial image and fingerprint data. With this level of data, […]

New Zealand’s government has passed legislation to enable Immigration New Zealand (INZ) to store photos of all non-New Zealanders entering the country as well as require fingerprint samples in some circumstances. The new policies are expected to benefit INZ through increased data on travelers, but also the travelers themselves as INZ Minister Jonathan Coleman believes […]

AOptix Technologies has integrated its iris recognition system into 34 automated e-Gates at the Gatwick Airport South Terminal. The decision to bring in AOptix and its iris systems, called InSight VM, was identity management technology developer and integrator Human recognition Systems (HRS), who had developed and implemented the gates already in place at the airport […]