2014 marks the 40 th anniversary of Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS). In forty short years, fingerprint matching has become a part of everyday life; from law enforcement agencies ...

ICAO estimates that as of July 2011, these 93 states have issued more than 345 million e-passports, of which almost 340 million are in circulation. As per ICAO specifications, each of these documents ...

Legislation in Virginia will create uniform standards for strengthening and authenticating digital identities. The Commonwealth of Virginia is taking the lead on this issue, as the first in the nation ...

Applications will be accepted for the Florida mobile driver’s licenses in 2021, and the state has tapped Thales to provide verification and other services for that digital ID program. As Thales put it ...

A distributed ledger digital ID project in Taipei city, the capital of Taiwan, represents a new frontier for the use of blockchain-style technology for secure authentication. The effort relies not on ...

NIST has released the Public Draft of NIST SP 800-63-3, now called Digital Identity Guidelines, for public comment. Over the summer, the ‘public preview phase’ resulted in hundreds of comments, many ...

One of the most infamous cyber attacks in history was the Stuxnet computer worm in 2010 that – among other things – caused a number of Iranian nuclear centrifuges to spin out of control and destroy ...

With its new LA Wallet, Louisiana becomes the first state to actually rollout digital driver’s licenses to its citizenry. While other states have piloted the mobile licenses, this is the first ...

A new biometrics-enabled security key — a device anchored around fingerprints — could help change the game when it comes to access control and payment applications, according to Giesecke+Devrient, ...

Digital ID for homeless powered by blockchain technology could make like easier and save the hassle of replacing lost IDs—that’s the idea behind a test under way in Austin, TX. The pilot program in ...

SSARM is one of the leading IT systems integrators in Bulgaria and was awarded a major contract to equip Bulgaria’s aviation hubs with EES-compliant border control solutions following a tender by the ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released a “Biometric Strategic Framework” outlining plans for its use of biometric technologies until 2025. The goal of the document is to create a strategy ...