LaserCard Corp., a provider of secure ID solutions, announced a follow-on purchase order valued at $5.4 million to supply secure credentials for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s National Identity Card program. This brings the total value of orders received for the program during the company’s current fiscal year to $12.8 million. The national ID cards […]

The Medical Group Management Association is starting to push for health insurers, vendors and health care providers to adopt standardized, machines-readable patient ID cards. The standard calls for use of magnetic stripe or two-dimensional bar code technology with the IDs. Most patient ID cards in use have no machine-readable elements. Health care providers typically photocopy […]

The Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles will start issuing enhanced driver licenses on Feb. 17, according to a news report in the Burlington Free Press. The new documents will cost $25 more than traditional licenses and enable cardholder to cross the Canadian border without a passport book. After June 1 no one will be able […]

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security reminded travelers from all Visa Waiver Program countries that they are now required to obtain approval through the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) prior to traveling to the United States. This requirement, effective today, applies to all eligible citizens or nationals traveling under the VWP.

 The Electronic System […]

iDcentrix announced it has signed a partnership agreement with Sistemas Integrales de Automatización S.A de C.V (SIASA), a systems integrator based in Mexico, to market identity products and services in the country. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The partnership agreement is focused on offering government organizations in the region state-of-the-art technology that assures […]

Proposed legislation has been filed in Arkansas that would require local governments and state agencies, including universities, to verify a student’s or potential employee’s Social Security number before he’s issued an ID card. Designed to protect against terrorists and the hiring or granting of in-state tuition to illegal aliens, the bill would force governments and […]

SecuGen, a developer of biometric technologies, has announced that they have worked in partnership with technology developer Sun Microsystems to integrate their Hamster Plus and Hamster IV fingerprint readers into Sun’s Solaris, Ray and Identity Management Solutions. With the new integration Sun is now able to offer products featuring biometric authentication to their commercial and […]

Washington state representative Jeff Morris has announced plans to fight the “malicious use” of RFID devices in 2009, according to an Information Week news report. Morris plans to introduce a package of consumer protection bills when state lawmakers convene next week, in an effort to safeguard privacy from what he terms “spy technology” devices. The […]

Oberthur Technologies announced the transfer of its card manufacturing operation in Los Angeles to an expanded facility in Exton, Pa., which will boast a 20% increase in overall production capabilities. Card manufacturing will cease in its Los Angeles facility by the end of March and will use the facility in Los Angeles to increase its […]

TransCore, a unit of Roper Industries, announced its TWIC hand-held reader, has received Transportation Security Administration authorization for use in security clearance of personnel accessing the nation’s ports as part of the Transportation Worker Identification Credential program. The reader was developed with DAP Technologies, a Roper Industries company that produces ruggedized handheld computers, and CoreStreet, […]