With Aadhaar-Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) registration mandatory to receive many benefits programs, citizens are lining up at the Aadhaar cards distribution centers in Vijayawada to sign up for the cards, reports The Hindu. In the Krishna district, women and elderly people lined up at centers issuing the Aadhar cards in the Krishna district. […]

Gemalto is providing the Royal Oman Police with an electronic passport solution for the Sultanate. Applicants will be issued with secure travel documents in line with Oman’s goal to provide enhanced services and protection to its citizens, using digital security technologies. The solution includes Gemalto’s ICAO compliant Sealys e-passport documents and a full Coesys solution […]

Pakistan’s National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has decided to end its program for issuing smart identity cards to Pakistanis overseas, reports Geo News. The decision came after both the foreign office and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had reservations about the program. These included concerns about the fact that a foreign company had been contracted to […]

India’s Home Ministry has proposed issuing smart biometric resident ID cards through its National Population Register (NPR), a move which some say is duplicating the fforst of the UIDAI program. As reported by The Economic Times, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is putting together a group of ministers to explore whether or not these programs duplicate […]

There are two ways to achieve immigration reform, one is to deploy law enforcement, sensors and drones to the borders and the other way is to make sure those entering the country illegally can’t find work. In order to make the latter happen is to issues tamper-proof, biometric ID cards, states the Washington Post in […]

By Michael Magrath, Director of Business Development, Government & Healthcare, Gemalto The health IT landscape appears to be changing for the better when it comes to strong authentication. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT voted Sept. 6 to require multifactor authentication in certain cases involving […]

At this year’s Presidential Inauguration, security and access control firm XTec, helped provide mobile accountability, identity validation and tracking capabilities for the District of Columbia Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency and the District of Columbia National Guard. The two groups used XTec’s XNodes and AuthentX physical access control readers for identity capture and authentication. […]

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 […]

By Joseph Pritikin, Director of product marketing, AOptix It may be two years, it may be ten, but soon enough the identity credential will look very much like Facebook, YouTube, or Amazon: It will be an app or functionality embedded within an app on your smart mobile device. While the identity credential will be enabled […]

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 […]