In an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, Robert A. Pastor makes a case for the implementation of biometric voter IDs in America because they can help solve problems with voter fraud and migration. While more than 30 states already require voters to have identification cards, they haven’t always been used because many state courts […]

Swedish company Fingerprint Cards (FPC) has sold its technology to a financial information services company to be used in a line of biometric authentication devices geared to the financial services market. FPC’s technology, including its FPC1080A fingerprint sensor, will be utilized in authentication products that are planned for launch in the second half of this […]

Athena Smartcard Solutions and id3 Technologies have created a partnership for match on card smart card technology. Under the terms of the agreement, Athena will integrate id3’s match on card algorithm, embedding it into all of its operating systems and cards. The algorithms will work with both JavaCard-based and proprietary operating systems. Athena will also […]

Next year, New Jersey’s Ocean City High School will implement new student ID cards that must be swiped for attendance purposes. After the objections over similar ID systems in Texas, New Jersey citizens may not be so willing to welcome this technology into their schools. The Examiner reports that the high school will be implementing […]

Beur Central Model Jail is going to be the first prison to implement India’s new e-prisons program that registers all prisoners and issues them smart cards, reports The Times of India. Bihar state electronics development corporation has developed the cards, which will contain the prisoner’s name, father’s name, permanent address, fingerprints, phots, identity proof and […]

Human Recognition Systems’ identity registration platform MTrust now helps ensure compliance with the U.K. Border Agency’s (UKBA) Tier 4 regulations around international student sponsorship. MTrust is a mobile biometric identification system that uses fingerprint readers to track people within a system. In the education sector, it can be leveraged for attendance information and to alert […]

In looking for the next big possibility in biometric identifiers, a computer scientist believes the knees might have it. As reported on Science Daily, Lior Shamir, a computer scientists at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan, says knees are just as unique as fingerprints and could be a valid identifier. Shamir says that biometric knee […]

Bridge Community Bank of Mechanicsville, Iowa, will be implementing digital representations as a way to add protection to customer accounts, reports KCRG. Bridge has contracted with TASCET Inc. to use its Financial ICONN system. Account holders visit the bank to create their own Financial ICONN, which consists of personal identifying information, two digital fingerprints and […]

Biometric technology has been around for more than a century, with its earliest and most common uses centered in law enforcement. In the past decades, application of the technology has extended to the identification and authentication of individuals at border crossings, onto computer networks and into physical spaces. The triumvirate–finger, face and iris–remain the top […]

BioEnable Technologies has launched the next generation of its biometric kiosks with upgraded features to enable biometric identification through a kiosk environment. The new kiosks have increased memory and large CPU to enhance the processing capabilities of biometric verification and identification. The system features a multilingual touch screen interface that works within a self-contained platform. […]