The DASH7 Alliance has announced the formation of the Container Security and Sensing Initiative (CSSI), aimed at defining the next generation of cargo container tracking and monitoring devices. The DASH7 Alliance is a coalition of organizations promoting a standard for wireless sensor technologies based on the ISO18000-7 standard for active RFID. Participating active RFID vendors […]

Following years of testing of the technology, James Loudermilk, a technologist from the FBI, has announced that the agency sees no point in utilizing facial recognition biometrics, according to an article from The Register. Instead, Loudermilk revealed the FBI’s plans to add iris scans to their database that now holds both fingerprint and DNA data […]

Sirit has announced the release of the 3.0 Firmware upgrade for its INfinity 510 (IN510) UHF reader. The upgrade introduces “Stray Tag Elimination” technology (STE), which allows the reader to differentiate between tags moving through a portal or an exit separately from stationary tags in the vicinity of the portal. “This feature is going to […]

VeriChip has announced that its chairman and chief executive officer, Scott R. Silverman, will present VeriChip’s in vivo glucose-sensing RFID chip at the ID World International Congress in Milan, Italy. ID World, which runs from Nov. 3-5, is the world’s leading symposium on the future directions of RFID, biometrics and smart card technologies, according to […]

By Zack Martin, Editor, Avisian Publications There’s been a lot of discussion about using the Personal Identity Verification credential outside of the federal government. First responders are the biggest group to discuss issuance of an interoperable credential, but other jurisdictions also want to issue the ID to employees. The problem was that the PIV/FIPS 201 […]

Elias Messaike, a forensic biologist in Sydney, Australia, is pushing for Australian police to utilize ears as way of identifying individuals, according to an ABC Australia News article. On top of it being a reliable means of identification verification, Messaike points to other benefits of using the biometric mode including its practicality, speed, lack of […]

The Identity Theft Prevention and Identity Management Standards Panel (IDSP) released a report calling for the development of an American National Standard on identity verification as a tool to help combat terrorism and identity theft. The report calls for national standards to verify the identity of individuals before being issued identification documents. The report were […]

A new workshop report from the Identity Theft Prevention and Identity Management Standards Panel (IDSP) addresses various facets of how research companies measure identity theft. The report finds that disparities exist in the way that terms are defined in statute versus in practice—terms such as identity theft, identity fraud and data breach. This potentially causes […]

CHARGE Anywhere, a Plainfield, N.J. provider of mobile payment solutions and a Forum Nokia member, has launched version 2.0 of its mobile payment software to allow an NFC-enabled Nokia phone to accept PayPass and Paywave contactless payments. Dr. Thami Smires, chief technology officer at CHARGE Anywhere, will introduce the solution in a joint presentation with […]

After a brief stall the Land Transportation Office in the Philippines has begun implementation of its RFID vehicle tagging policy. Following a couple weeks of intense public debate, the LTO finally put its foot down yesterday and announced that the forum to be held October 16, originally intended as an open discussion where citizens could […]