Oberthur Technologies may be looking for buyers of 60% of its smart card business, according to a report on Telecom.com via Les Echos. Oberthur is the world’s second biggest smartcard maker after Gemalto and selling off that portion of business would accounts for nearly three quarters of its revenue and is valued at 1 billion […]

After the 9/11 terrorist attacks there were many claims about facial recognition biometrics. Some vendors claimed that if the technology had been deployed at airports, the hijackers could have been caught and the tragedy averted. This was not one of the higher points for the technology as a number of factors show that statement to […]

IrisGuard, a Jordan-based developer of iris recognition systems, has landed a contract for supplying the Jordanian government technology for capturing iris data of each visitor to the country, according to a Bloomberg article. Such projects are not new to IrisGuard as in 2002 they implemented a similar system in the United Arab Emirates to track […]

As part of the Cameroon Government’s identity solutions road map, De La Rue Identity Systems announced plans for the roll out of nearly 500K Cameroon e-passports over the next three years. De La Rue will launch the new and International Civil Aviation Organization compliant e-passport, as well as upgrade Cameroon to document management and issuance […]

The United States Customs and Border Protection agency has opened the new “Ready Lane” at the Otay Mesa port of entry for individuals who have a travel document enabled with RFID technology. The new lane is dedicated for vehicle traffic with occupants possessing an RFID-enabled travel document, such as the U.S. Passport Card, SENTRI card, […]

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the availability of a new interactive PDF viewer allowing subscribers a new way to access our print magazines and content. The spring 2011 issue of re:ID is ready and the interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that […]

The United States State Department has made inquires to India’s government regarding their Unique Identification (UID) project that intends to see each citizen of the country given a unique identification number that corresponds to the individual via biometric data, according to an article from The Hindu. Among the information the State Department is searching for […]

secunet was commissioned by the German Federal Office for Information Security with the extension of the control infrastructure for electronic identity documents. Border control applications like the “ePass-Client” or the e-Gate solution “EasyPASS” at Frankfurt airport read and check electronic data from e-passports. In order for border officials to read the data stored on the […]

The Taiwan government has announced plans to begin collecting biometric data from immigrants entering the country looking for migrant worker or resident status, according to a FutureGov article. The Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs is leading the program in an effort to better protect its borders and citizens from terrorists and known criminals. The program […]

Starting in June, the Malaysian Government is planning to begin collection of thumbprint data from foreign visitors at each of the 96 entry points to the country, according to a FutureGov article. The new process is intended to track visitors from their entry through departing as well as to better find and stop wanted criminals […]