Two years ago, North Carolina’s DMV began its REAL ID card production effort. A new case study from card material provider PPG provides lessons about the driver’s license durability.

Facial recognition and fingerprints are already used to authenticate travelers at airports and border crossings. Now, Hertz is launching biometric checkout at car rental lots — the latest example of digital ID coming to the automotive world.

A recent webinar hosted by the Secure Technology Alliance Identity Council focused on use cases for a mobile identity credential in health care, banking and transit industries. The three industries have unique identity issues that mobile devices can help to solve from both usability and security perspectives. Speakers include: Jeffrey Fountaine, Ingenico Group; Judy Keator, […]

The energy drink Lucozade is adding chips to some of its drink bottles in a contactless promotion that lets lucky Londoners ride the city’s public transportation for free. The chip on the bottom of the bottle is tapped on a contactless transit reader just as the city’s normal contactless Oyster card would be tapped to […]

Gemalto’s Protiva Cloud Confirm is compatible with HP CloudSystem under the HP Helion cloud portfolio; FIME extended its ISO quality assurance accreditation under ISO17025; the Open Standard for Public Transport Alliance revealed that São Paulo Transporte and Swiss Post Solutions will utilize its CIPURSE standard; and Ram Shriram, a founding board member of Google and former executive at Amazon.com, has joined strong authentication specialist Yubico

Unisys Corporation has been selected by the UK’s Passport Office to implement its new facial recognition system; Cubic Transportation Systems received a $7.5 million add-on contract with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to expand the Clipper card fare payment system; and Diamond Fortress Technologies released ONYX HD3, a touchless biometric fingerprint authentication software development kit for enterprise mobile applications.

The March meeting of the influential Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was recently held in Washington D.C. FIPS201.com and SecureIDNews.com were on hand to cover the event and have provided, as a service to the IAB and the smart card community, an audio recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to […]

Datacard, Morpho issuing INTERPOL travel documents Datacard Group announced that it has partnered with Morpho to support the INTERPOL Travel Document Initiative. Morpho is providing the secure ID management and document production solution used by INTERPOL in the issuance of electronic travel documents to its officials.  Datacard Group is supplying its 3D laser engraving technology […]

Seven metro Atlanta residents are facing charges of theft, fraud, and racketeering charges for allegedly selling counterfeit MARTA Breeze cards, according to Creative Loafing Atlanta. MARTA Police identified seven suspects, so far, tied to the alleged Breeze card scheme – ranging from ages 22 to 46 . MARTA did not specify the amounts that were added to the […]

Washington Metro has announced that it will begin testing a new electronic payment program after awarding Accenture the contract to replace the existing fare collection systems for Metrorail, Metro-operated parking facilities, Metrobus and MetroAccess services. The $184 million contract will include a system for Metro customers that enables them to continue to use SmarTrip cards, while […]