It’s supposed to be a high of 88 degrees in Washington on Thursday, but there may some extra sizzle in the air if FEMA has anything to say about it. FEMA will be performing a portion of its Summer Sizzle demonstration at this month’s IAB. IAB attendees, who choose to participate, will be electronically scanned […]

Biometrics pass speed and security tests, accuracy not quite there The National Institute of Standards and Technology is continuing its march towards approving an ID card with a stored fingerprint that can be quickly authenticated without the data on the card ever leaving. The match-on-card fingerprint trials show that existing technology will work, although accuracy […]

The U.S. Army has chosen Animetrics, a developer of facial biometrics and imaging technology, to assist with their Biometric Automated Toolset (BAT) system, an identification system aimed at improving military intelligence and force protection. The Animetrics software being used, called 2D-to-3D, will be able to create three-dimensional images of suspects and people of interest to […]

The Portuguese book retailer Byblos hopes the RFID-enabled system in its new Lisbon superstore will improve customer service, inventory control and security. The 4500 square-meter Byblos Amoreiras store offers 350,000 books, games and videos for sale, each tagged with an RFID device. The system, developed by CreativeSystems and using RFID labels designed for the retailer […]

This is the question being asked by Jeremy Grant, senior vice president and identity solutions analyst at the Stanford Group Company. There are many projects underway, Real ID, the FBI’s Next Generation Identification program, the Passport Card, the DOD’s Automated Biometric Identification System, are just a few. The Airport Credential Interoperability Specification may be one […]

An audit by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Inspector General’s office shows that the agency is not complying the HSPD-12 and FIPS 201. The White House Office of Management and Budget and the President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency requested the audit. The report shows that the DOD is lacking in six specific areas with […]

The Regional Transport Authority of Hyderabad, India, has announced plans to monitor its driving test tracks with an RFID-enabled system designed to automate testing for driver licenses. The new system will be tested in a pilot program at one of the RTA’s three test tracks. The Nagole track will be equipped with a set of […]

Sagem Morpho Inc. introduced the MorphoAccess 521 TWIC biometric reader, a smart card access device to meet Transportation Security Administration implementation requirements for the Transportation Worker Identification Credential program. The MA521 TWIC is designed to read encrypted biometric data, such as a digital fingerprint, perform the match to the cardholder and perform an active card […]

Biometric and smart card companies aim to educate lawmakers on how the technologies can be privacy enhancing and not privacy invasive By Zack Martin, Editor RFID. It’s hard to believe that four little letters can cause individuals to imagine such evil things. Mention RFID and people envision Big Brother or another type of all-seeing specter […]

Dutch semiconductor manufacturer NXP is making a mistake suing Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, says Karsten Nohl, a University of Virginia graduate student who worked with others to break the MIFARE cryptographic algorithm. “It’s a terrible decision, there is no legal case to be made,” Nohl says. “This was reverse engineered legally without any […]