UK’s Identity and Passport Service’s biometric ID card project may have some possible issues due to fingerprint errors, according to a Silicon.com article. The Biometrics Assurance Group, and independent UK-based biometrics group, has warned that the project, which is to be rolled out over the next four years in the UK, is facing possible serious […]

Destron Fearing, a unit of Digital Angel, an advanced technology company in the field of animal identification and emergency identification solutions, has been awarded $885,000 in contracts with the Portland, OR-based Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), a federal agency under the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the National Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S. Army Corps […]

The Washington Metropolitan Tranist Authority is making it easier for senior citizens 65 and older to get their discount when riding Metrobus and Metrorail with the new senior SmarTrip cards that will be available July 1. The new senior SmarTrip card is bright yellow, which makes it easy to identify as a reduced fare SmarTrip […]

GE Security Inc. announced the expansion of its Transition card reader series with three new Personal Identity Verification readers: the T-500-PIV, T-520-PIV and T-525-PIV. The readers are designed to help customers meet the PIV requirements mandated by HSPD-12 and enable customers to transition from their current access credential to the new PIV credential. The new […]

TSA considers biometric ACIS program but airports are not convinced By Zack Martin, Editor The Transportation Security Administration wants airports across the country to use and issue an interoperable credential. If a flight attendant at Chicago O’Hare International Airport was on a crew flying in and out of Atlanta’s Hartsfield Airport the ID card and […]

The Federal Trade Commission signed of on the sale of Digimarc’s driver license unit to L-1 Identity Solutions. This erases concerns that antitrust issues would hold up the deal, says Jeremy Grant, senior vice president and identity solutions analyst at the Stanford Group Company. The ruling could have slipped till July, which would have delayed […]

ID Solutions Inc. announced that it has been awarded a contract to supply software to the Transportation Security Agency’s Transportation Worker Identification Credential program. ID Solution’s ID Search Engine provides fingerprint match services to TSA’s TWIC enrollment applications to help assure that none of these credentials are issued to a given applicant more than once […]

Crossing the borders between Qatar and Saudi Arabia can now be done with a smart card rather than a passport. The two countries agreed to accept the national ID cards for passage in an effort to facilitate travel and commerce. All members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait […]

Dates: June 13, 2008 Venue: MITRE Corporation Auditorium, Bldg 1 Location: 7525 Colshire Drive McLean, VA 22102-7539 URL: https://conference.brtrc.com/RFID_Conf08/ Contact: Susan Brainerd- 301.412.9331, or [email protected] Description: The conference aims to improve participants’ understanding of RFID technology (systems and component views) and of the role of standards in the RFID marketplace. Electronic copies of the newly […]

U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bernie G. Thompson is wondering why two-thirds of the card printers for the Transportation Worker Identification Credential have broken down and why there isn’t a backup plan to have the credential produced elsewhere. More then 1 million port workers are expected to have TWIC by April 2009. […]