The Texas prison system will be the first in the United States to use prisoners’ fingerprints to check for their immigration status, according to a Houston Chronicle article. The officials from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (DoCJ) will be utilizing a new federal program to help obtain the background information on their inmates. Specifically, […]

Global Defense group, BAE, has entered in talks with UK-based biometrics developer UK Biometrics, according to an NE Business article. If an agreement is met between the two companies it could open a number of business avenues for UK Biometrics as BAE serves as a medium to bring new defense and security products to market. […]

Datastrip has launched its EasyRead handheld biometric reader for the verification of travel documents. The EasyRead is the a mobile biometric device offering a one-step inspection procedure for validating Machine Readable Travel Documents and verifying document holders. The EasyRead also provides features to support identity management for e-passports, as well as national ID cards, visas […]

The publishing of the 2010 Justice Department budget touched on a new intelligence gathering program for the FBI called Going Dark, according to a Wired article. Among the items laid out relating to the program is the creation of a Biometric Technology Center that is to be developed jointly by the FBI, Defense Department, Justice […]

Who’s doing it and what’s being done to prevent it By Zack Martin, Editor, Avisian Publications Hacking can mean many things. The image it conjures for most is that of a young man in a dark room lit by nothing more than the glow of a computer monitor, trying to break into some top-secret government […]

The Track and Trace Solutions division of 3M Corporation has announced the deployment of its RFID Tracking System at a U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) base. The USMC base in Hawaii is using the solution at its Installation Personnel Administration Center (IPAC) to manage the base’s more than 8,000 personnel records, increasing efficiency in both the […]

Art Channel Galleries, a direct-marketing firm specializing in the collectible art and sports memorabilia markets, has announced plans to deploy RFID technology for authenticating its products. The company has completed the purchase of an RFID software and hardware package, and plans to begin integrating new RFID tracking and authentication software into its enterprise software system. […]

Lockheed Martin hosted four industry leaders in vascular, voice and signature recognition at its Biometric Experimentation and Advanced Concepts (BEACON) in West Virginia, a space intent on collaborating between industry, government and academia in the field of biometrics. The four companies invited were Identica, PerSay, Speech Technology Center and Noninvasive Medical Technologies. The intent behind […]

How a small subsidiary of Hughes Aircraft became a global leader in identity management By Zack Martin, Editor, Avisian Publications HID Global enables workers to get in the front door of offices around the world. Many people see the three letters, either on their cards or access control readers, but odds are they don’t really […]

The Smart Card Alliance Transportation Council sees contactless fare collection systems moving forward in four cities while at the same time interest is growing for mobile NFC fare payments. This latest update is based on information gleaned from the organization’s 2009 Payments Councils Summit in Salt Lake City, Utah, in February where new officers were […]