The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that it is expanding the categories of non-U.S. citizens required to provide digital fingerprints and a photograph upon entry to the United States through the US‑VISIT program. US‑VISIT records biographic and biometric information to conduct security checks and verify the identities of international visitors to the U.S. Collection […]

Futronic Technology Company Limited, a Hong Kong provider of fingerprint recognition software and hardware products, has released its latest fingerprint reader/writer for Mifare cards, giving the company support for both contact and contactless smart cards. The company’s new FS25 combines fingerprint match on device and ISO14443A Mifare card reader and writer into one device. It […]

Validity Sensors, a developer of biometric hardware, has announced that it will be supporting Microsoft’s Windows 7 Biometric Framework. The hardware used during a Microsoft demonstration of the framework at the WinHEC 2008 conferences was Validity’s VSF201 fingerprint sensor. Microsoft’s Biometric Framework is built to provide users with greater ease of integrating biometric devices into […]

By Joseph Pearson, marketing manager for government identification, Texas Instruments Electronic credentials ranging from passports to national ID cards are making next generation debuts in many parts of the world. The European Union is moving forward with electronic passports containing biometric fingerprint data for extended access control. Many countries are developing multi-purpose national ID cards […]

Lockheed Martin, a lead partner to the U.S. government biometric initiatives, hosted five biometric companies at their Biometric Experimentation and Advanced Concepts center in West Virginia. The companies, Cogent, L-1, Motorola, NEC and Sagem, were there to take part in the “More than Minutiae: An Advanced Fingerprint and Palm Print Technology Forum.” In addition to […]

Consumers are still worried about identity theft and would be willing to use biometrics to confirm their identity, according to a survey from Unisys, the Blue Bell, Pa.-based systems integrator. More than 70% of respondents will trust banks and government agencies to ask them for biometric data for identity verification. Fingerprints also nearly tied passwords […]

Entrust Inc. has been selected to supply the certificate authority software for Finland’s migration to second-generation electronic passports based on the Extended Access Control (EAC) standard. With the European Union’s June 2009 deadline for migration to the EAC standard on the horizon, Finland’s Population Register Centre expects the transition to the new EAC e-passport Certificate […]

Cross Match Technologies, a developer of biometric products, has had their mobile handheld fingerprint reader, Be.U Mobile, approved through the Transportation and Security Administration’s evaluation of products to qualify for the Transportation Worker Identification Credential pilot program. Ports around the U.S. will use the list of products that pass the TSA evaluation for purchasing and […]

Neurotechnology, a developer of biometric solutions, has announced they have been selected by the Bangladesh Army to provide the country with its MegaMatcher software development kit, a multi-modal biometric technology, to help identify duplicate registrations in the voter registry. The SDK is to become part of the Bangladesh Voter Registration Project that has already registered […]

Privaris, a provider of multi-function wireless biometric solutions, announced the availability of devices with preloaded HID Global credentials on its plusID product line. Customers can now purchase plusID identity verification tokens with HID 26-bit and 37-bit prox credentials, ready for use with their existing physical access control systems. With pre-coded plusID’s, the only step required […]