Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has announced its plans to implement mandatory digital fingerprint collection from foreigners applying for temporary citizenship, work visas and student visas, according to a University World News article. The program for Canada is nothing new to various other world governments. The U.S. has had a similar program for five years […]

Sagem Sécurité has introduced its “Face on the Fly” and “Finger on the Fly” biometric technology for at the Milipol trade show and exhibition in Paris. Sagem Sécurité’s on-the-fly facial recognition technology, “Face on the Fly,” features a facial image acquisition process based on a system of synchronized video cameras enabling the face to be […]

Researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a new way to combat passive RFID tag cloning using the physical attributes of a tag to identify it rather than just the information stored on it. According to Professor Dale R. Thomas, passive RFID tags are easy to counterfeit because they do not include conventional encryption […]

British forces in southern Afghanistan are looking into creating gated communities with biometric checkpoints for the citizens of the combat zone in an effort to keep the Taliban from gaining access to the villages, according to a Times Online article. The idea for the checkpoints follows the studying of counterinsurgency methods utilized during the Boer […]

The Indianapolis-based Indiana Blood Center had a problem. Regulations required that blood donors be positively identified each time they donated blood, but the problem was donors don’t always have their government-issued identification card, such as a driver license. “You would be surprised how annoyed people would be when they couldn’t give blood,” says Pete Lux, […]

AuthenTec announced the shipment of its 50 millionth fingerprint sensor. Founded in October 1998, AuthenTec established a previous industry benchmark of 25 million sensors in November 2007 and took less than two years to double that mark to 50 million. AuthenTec’s 50 millionth sensor was shipped to Fujitsu Limited for integration into its smart phone, […]

DigitalPersona, a developer of biometric solutions, has announced that its customer Picis, developer of health care information systems solutions, has reported success with its Picis ED PulseCheck Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) that uses DigitalPersona’s U.are.U fingerprint readers. The PulseCheck EDIS system is a solution that enables emergency room personnel to quickly access patient records […]

UPEK, a developer of fingerprint biometric solutions, has announced the release of two new fingerprint scanners called EikonTouch 300 and EikonTouch 700. Both are connected to PCs via a USB annd feature a one-touch interface. The main differences between the two are that the 700, which is designed for use in the government sector, is […]

Cogent Systems, a developer of biometric devices, has announced that its mobile biometric authentication devices, Fusion Mobile Ident II and Mobile Ident III, have been certified compliant with the FBI’s Next Generation Identification (NGI) Initiatives and Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) Image Quality Specifications (IQS). The testing for certification was completed by officials from […]

SecuGen, a developer of biometric solutions, has announced that it has been chosen by technology developer Lucky Technologies to provide optical fingerprint devices to be integrated into Lucky’s iGuard. The iGuard is to serve as a commercial solution for physical access control and time and attendance tracking. In addition to utilizing fingerprints for authenticating individuals, […]