The Security Industry Association (SIA), a member-based group that advocates on behalf of the security industry in the U.S., has publicly opposed a Bill in Alaska that restricts biometric technology in the state, according to a Security Info Watch article. The bill, which was introduced by Alaskan State Senator Bill Wielechowski, both defines biometrics as […]

Credit card trafficker Vladislav Anatolievich Horohorin, 27, was arrested Aug. 7 in Nice, France by French authorities and brought up on indictment charges unsealed. Horohorin, otherwise known by his online alias, “BadB” of Moscow, was indicated by a federal jury in back in November 2009 on charges of access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. […]

Hitachi has announced a partnership with Avion Solutions, a technical services company, on the development of a new biometric solution. The system is designed for use in law enforcement in North America and utilizes finger vein scanning, which authenticates via a near-infrared light mapping out the unique pattern of veins in an individual’s finger. The […]

A UK police force is piloting a RFID-based weapons tracking solution developed by TAGSYS and RFIP Ltd. to secure armaments for military, law enforcement and other agencies. For the initial installment, the police department is using the system to monitor and track tasers using RFID-equipped storage cabinets. Each taser is tagged with a high frequency […]

BIO-key International has announced a new contract that requires a biometric solution built off a combination between its and fellow biometric developer MorphoTrak’s matching algorithms, according to a UPI article. The contract, which came from an unnamed overseas customer, stipulates a large-scale fingerprint solution. For such systems MorphoTrak has partnered with others in the industry […]

Newport Digital Technologies, Inc. and Summit Government Group have entered into an agreement to promote sales of the N37B rugged mobile computing device. NPDT’s N37B rugged mobile computer is a device, certified by AT&T, for industrial applications such as inventory management, asset tracking, health care, law enforcement, field service/sales applications, and meter reading. In addition, […]

Stanley Inc. has been awarded two contracts from the U.S. Army totally $7.9 million, according to a Washington Business Journal article. The contracts stipulate Stanley support programs out of the Army Intelligence Center Language Technology Office in Arizona intended to develop biometric and forensic systems and to work on the Detainee Information Management System, a […]

Hardin County Jail in Eldora, Iowa has implemented Clincher RFID wristbands, non-transferable IDs that provide point-of-contact verification, to track and log interactions between guards and prisoners, according to RFID World Canada. Mobile computers powered by Guardian Mobile software enable officers to scan a prisoner’s Clincher RFID Wristband and record the interactions to provide documentation for […]

L-1 Identity Solutions has unveiled a new biometric device called the HIIDE 5. The HIIDE 5 is the next generation in their HIIDE device family which is a small and lightweight mobile option for enrolling or authenticating of one’s identity using biometrics in the field. Additionally, the new device is touted as a customizable option […]

Aware has announced that it has supplied a large European police agency, on par with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the U.S., with its Biometric Services Platform (BioSP). BioSP, a Web-based biometric application, will serve a number of purposes for the agency including screening and converting fingerprint records from agencies such as INTERPOL and […]