Foreigners visiting Korea that plan to stay for more than 91 days will be required to register their ten fingerprints and a facial scan upon entry to the country, according to a Korea Herald article. The new program, which is a result of immigration legislation that passed Korea’s National Assembly in April 2010, will also […]

A planned trial for new biometric technology in the Queensland area of Australia would see surveillance cameras installed throughout the area outfitted with face-recognition technology in an effort to track and find wanted criminals or other persons of interest in public spaces, according to a Courier Mail article. The trial would seek to utilize the […]

Administrators for the city of Winter Park, Fla. have moved the city’s police department to a biometric system for securing access to records. The move is for compliance with the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division, according to a Computerworld article. The lack of compliance stems from shared passwords that often comes from sharing work […]

Jolly Technologies was giving demonstrations of its ID Flow system at the National Association of Campus Card Users Annual Conference. ID Flow is a visitor management system that enables a school to scan a driver license, capture a photo and fingerprint biometric, check that data against a watch list and then issues a credential, says […]

Identity security technology developers CardLogix and Datastrip have announced a partnership to combine technology to form a new mobile identity management solution. Specifically, the solution has combined CadLogix’s M.O.S.T., Credentsys smart card, or ePassport with DataStrip readers such as the handheld Easy Verify to develop handheld, mobile solutions for collecting fingerprint data. Among the potential […]

The Nigerian Government has announced new plans for biometric registration of its citizens that would be stored in a central database and yield biometric identity cards and a nine-digit unique identification number for each citizen, according to an All Africa article. The new program is not a new idea to Nigerians, as the country has […]

The Israeli government passed the biometric database regulation an order that will see the collection of fingerprint data and a photograph from all the country’s citizens to be collected in a central database, according to a 972 magazine article. The final approval of the regulations was signed off by MK Meir Sheetrit, who had also […]

The army is starting to test smart phones that could be used in combat in lieu of bulkier equipment. Apple and Android smart phones will be tested to see if they can withstand the rigors of combat, and can perform as effectively as current equipment. There are many applications the military wants to use, but […]

With security lines at airports yet again growing and concerns about full body scanners rampant, traveler frustration is again reaching a tipping point. The Transportation Security Administration recognizes this and is … once again … dusting off the idea of a trusted traveler program. TSA Administrator John S. Pistole wants to change the airport security […]

Northrop Grumman has announce a follow-on task order to continue its work with the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), according to a UPI article. The new contract, which is valued at $141 million, has Northrop for a one year providing systems engineering, software development, infrastructure, performance engineering, modeling […]