The Biometrics Institute, an Australian non-for-profit industry organization, has announced plans to increase its promotion of biometrics by expanding both its physical presence and its networking reach. The Institute has opened an office in London, where the Institute’s General Manager Isabelle Moeller, has relocated. This office will help the Institute bring together its European membership […]

The U.S. military’s biometrics program scored a big win in the war on terror this year when the system was used to recapture Afghan prisoners who broke out of the Saraposa jail in Kandahar. Wired reports that the military has been a proponent of biometrics over the last seven years, pouring billions of dollars into […]

O’Hare International and Miami International airports are the first test sites for the KnownCrew program, a new security screening procedure that expedites pilot screening at airport security checkpoints. As reported in the Minneapolis StarTribune, KnownCrew verifies pilots through photos and real-time airline employment data. It enables pilots to get through TSA checkpoints without going through […]

The Unique Identification Authority of India, an organization that assigns ID numbers to the country’s poor to help them obtain social services, is starting to give corporate access to its database. ICICI Bank Ltd. and State Bank of India are the first two companies allowed to receive the information. They will be the first of […]

A case for biometric technologies inclusion in mobile phones is made citing its potential in terms of addressing consumer needs for data protection, device security and inclusion in mobile services and operations in a Tech Biometric article. While some of the biometric capabilities for phones would require embedded or integrated hardware such as scanners to […]

The much-anticipated FIPS 201-2 draft was released in March. The team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology had been collecting comments on possible additions to the U.S. federal smart card standard since the first specification was released in 2005. The new draft focuses on clearing up some confusion from the first standard, enhancing […]

From the bag phone, to the brick phone to the flip phone, the mobile phone has evolved quite a bit in the last 25 years. The overarching trend had been toward smaller and smaller devices, but this preoccupation with size seems to have reached a plateau. The focus now is squarely on adding capabilities. For […]

After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks airport security was of the utmost concern. There was a lot of discussion around personnel vetting and using biometrics and other high-tech security to enable access to secure areas. The Transportation Worker Identification Credential was originally envisioned for workers at all transportation hubs–seaports, railways and airports. But lobbying from […]

The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) in Arizona has announced it has received four iris scanners for enrolling and identifying inmates at the Pinal County Jail as well as biometrically tracking and monitoring registered sex offenders living in the county, according to a San Tan Valley Today article. The scanners, which come from biometric technology […]

Entrust has announced it will help the Danish National Police (Rigspolitiet) migrate Denmark’s e-passport infrastructure to the Extended Access Control (EAC) standard – the EU’s newest standard for biometrics and e-passport security. Entrust will work with its partner Nets, a Danish technology vendor specializing in payments, to provide 670,000 EAC e-passports to Danish citizens on […]