Sagem Sécurité has won a seven-year contract to produce 12 million secure drivers licenses and vehicle registration cards for Morocco. At the core of the system is the contactless smartcard provided by Sagem Orga GmbH. During a police check, an officer will pass the card over a smartcard reader to access the data stored in […]

Datastrip Inc. has launched its latest product, the DSV2+TURBO handheld biometric terminal. Certified under the Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-12), the DSV2+TURBO is designed for federal, state and local applications requiring on-the-spot ID verification. It is capable of reading a wide array of cards including both contact and contactless chips. The DSV2+TURBO features a “large-screen […]

ImageWare Systems has been awarded a patent for a multimodal biometric identification or authentication system. This patent covers a system and method for enrolling, searching, matching, and managing biometric modalities on a common platform, and is independent to the biometric types or the algorithms managed. The patent is employed throughout ImageWare’s portfolio of biometric identity […]

Get a bunch of students, mostly freshmen, away from home for the first time. Stick them all in a dorm, many of them are armed with a checking account and checks, a credit card, a student ID card, their driver license and Social Security card. It’s a recipe for ID theft. Realizing that, many colleges […]

Gemalto’s Vice President of Business Development and Government Affairs, Neville Pattinson, testified before U.S. Congress urging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to make privacy and security of government credentials, such as REAL ID and WHTI cards, a high priority. At issue is how well the RFID technology being considered for enhanced driver’s licenses, REAL […]

Gemalto will provide the world’s first clear window security feature on drivers licenses for Swedish drivers. The Gemalto Sealys Clear Window is a transparent window in the pure polycarbonate structure for enhanced physical security that matches stringent expectations from criminal laboratory and national road authority of Sweden. About 600,000 licenses will be produced per year […]

Mobilisa’s Defense ID, a handheld scanner that checks an ID card presented at any point of entry, is being utilized by the Walter Reed Army Medical Center to secure access points. The scanned information is compared to more than 100 databases of individuals who are wanted for criminal offenses or are otherwise barred from military […]

Malaysia’s national identification card, the MyKad, is reported as being the world’s first national ID card and one of the largest issuances of dual interface technology according to The Hindu paper. MyKad has been issued to all citizens and contains secured applications for national identification, drivers license, e-passport, health card, ATM card, public key infrastructure […]

The Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection agency is exploring how to fit the Transportation Worker ID card (TWIC) standards into the requirements it is developing for the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative’s (WHTI) People Access Security Service (PASS) card. TWIC relies on smart card technology (ISO 14443 standard) while the DHS is looking […]

The White House has released an updated National Strategy for Homeland Security document but does it say anything new? Prepared by the Homeland Security Council advisory group, the report outlines preparedness and prevention efforts, including border security, surveillance, biometrics and information-sharing. It covers ID cards, cargo identification and tracking, passenger screening and cyber-security threat detection […]