In a report performed by the UK Home Affairs Committee, the UK’s regulations on immigration requiring biometric data being recorded prior to entry into the country have been a bit overzealous and are unfair to those immigrating from poorer countries, according to a Publicservice.co.uk article. While the UK has substantially installed and implemented biometric systems […]

The July meeting of the Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was recently held in Washington D.C. FIPS201.com was on hand to cover the event and has provided, as a service to the IAB and the smart card community, an audio recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to access a list […]

The Commission of Elections (Comelec) in the Philippines is finishing its bidding process for creating a biometric system to replace the commission’s current vote list, according to an Inquirer article. The agency would like to use fingerprint biometrics. The wining bidder is expected to provide 2,200 enrollment machines allowing for each municipality to have at […]

To solve the issues and hazards of anonymoity on the Internet, President Obama should appoint a cybersecurity czar dedicated to identification, said Robert Lentz, deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber, identity, and information assurance in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense as well as the chief information assurance officer for the agency. […]

Neurotechnology, a developer of biometric solutions, has been chosen to provide its multi-modal biometric identification engine as the enrollment and authentication engine for the Integrated Biometric Passport Issuance System for Indonesia, according to a TMCnet article. The system, called MegaMatcher, operates off of face and fingerprint authentication. The templates used for the passports are to […]

In order to continue moving a bill to replace all national IDs with biometric ones through the legislative process a compromise between the Israeli politicians pushing the bill and the bill’s opposition has been tentatively reached, according to a Globes Online article. The compromise involves an increase in security of the database by splitting the […]

The image of the ID card for British citizens was revealed by the Home Secretary. The ID card, which can also be used as a travel document in Europe, was revealed by the Home Secretary at St. Pancras International Station in London and to residents of Greater Manchester at an event in the city center. […]

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved the PASS ID bill, which would repeal parts of the REAL ID Act. “The bill the Committee approved is a good compromise that addresses many of the concerns we all have about the current REAL ID Act,” said Sen. Daniel K. Akaka (D-Hawaii), the sponsor of […]

CARTES, a 24-year Paris staple, will be expanding its reach next year with the launch of its first CARTES in Asia edition as part of the AsiaWorld-Expo March 16-18 in Hong Kong. It will feature three days of conferences and a hundred exhibitors and is expected to attract more than 2,500 visitors. “We have been […]

SCM Microsystems, a German secure identity provider, has received the 2009 Frost & Sullivan North American Smart Card Readers Market Leadership Award based on its work with the U.S. government’s various smart card programs, including the DOD’s Common Access Card and PIV that covers all federal workers. Other factors mentioned in the award were SCM’s […]