The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has announced its interest in increasing facial recognition technology’s role in the country’s increasing biometric programs, according to a TechWorld article. Specifically, the department is planning a panel that would help provide specialized biometric technology assistance and foster better skills with the technology for other government […]

HID Global announced that its RFID reader module has been chosen by German airline security provider DESKO for its Personal Identification Mini Dock (PIMD) identity-checking system. Jointly developed with Panasonic, the “3-in-1” system is designed for border-control, policing and other security applications, and includes a DESKO-designed optical character recognition (OCR) unit and a fingerprint scanner, […]

AOptix has unveiled a new iris camera aimed at the customs and immigration market. “The targeted market for this is the immigration counters within airports,” says Phil Tusa, vice president of biometrics at AOptix. “When you go through modern airports, you’ll see that the immigration counters are very nicely designed in many places, they’re consumer […]

Sydney Airport has increased its automated biometric checkpoint kiosks and gates available for use by international travelers from 12 kiosks at seven gates to 16 kiosks and eight gates. The automated gated can be used by travelers 18-years-old or older with biometric passports, according to a CIO article. Federal home affairs minister, Brendan O’Connor, says […]

Royal Oman Police, in its role as passport issuing authority of the Sultanate of Oman, awarded HJP Consulting (HJP) with a consulting contract for the new Omani e-passport project. This is HJP’s fourth electronic ID consultancy contract in the Middle East region. The scope of the project is to support Royal Oman Police in the […]

ImageWare Systems has announced that it has been awarded a contract to perform an expansion of an existing border management system it initially installed for an unnamed country. The contract, which is valued at $37 million, is expected to start January 2011 and last for roughly a year and a half. The border management system […]

In just six months more than 300,000 Republic of China citizens have applied for their first passports in person, with the new biometric passports contributing to Taiwan’s inclusion as a candidate for the U.S. Visa Waiver Program (VWP), according to The China Post. In addition, a total of 3.88 million Taiwan passport holders have changed […]

Hoyos Corporation announced a partnership with Herta Security to implement iris scanning technology in airports in an attempt to solve airline security issues and create a secure process from check-in to boarding, says Jeff Carter, chief development officer at Hoyos Hoyos and Herta are creating a pilot program to run in Barajas Airport in Madrid, […]

Dates: September 27-29, 2011 Location: Tampa, Florida Venue: Tampa Convention Center URL: URL: http://events.jspargo.com/biometrics11/ or http://www.biometrics.org/ Description: Supported by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA), the Biometrics Consortium Conference is focused on Biometric Technologies for Defense, Homeland Security, Identity Management, Border Crossing and Electronic Commerce. The Conference […]

Australia’s Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) has announced that those seeking protection visas will have their biometric collected as part of the new initiative that has all those seeking citizenship or extended residency in the country, according to a Computerworld article. The biometric collection, which is being put in place for better management of […]