Biometric Update

Sagem Sécurité (SAFRAN Group) and Interppol announced that Sagem Sécurité will supply Interpol and its 186 member states with the latest version of its automated fingerprint identification system, MetaMorpho™. The announcement is part of a detailed agreement signed on Jan. 10.
In addition to automated processing, this new-generation system features the latest algorithms developed by Sagem […]

L-1 Identity Solutions extends their relationship with the Tribunal Electoral de Panama to upgrade the country’s multi-purpose National ID system which also serves as Panama’s voter registration system and help Panama prepare for the 2009 Presidential elections. Under the terms of the $3.7 million contract, L-1 will deliver a complete multi-biometric solution that includes new […]

South Africans should start seeing the new smart ID card by the end of 2009, as the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) reviews all its IT projects, director-general Mavuso Msimang says.
Speaking at a parliamentary media briefing yesterday, Msimang said the smart ID card system was being developed because the current green ID document had proven […]

U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) is proposing a new Social Security card that would be based on the same technology the U.S. Department of Defense uses for the Common Access Card.
The new Social Security card would have a photo, magnetic stripe, bar code and microprocessor chip that would contain users biometric. Exactly how individuals would […]

Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. has won a contract worth $6.3 million to conduct a biometrics research project at the request of the Air Force, the Defense Department announced yesterday.
Under the contract, the McLean, Va., company will help conduct research for a new 3-D facial recognition biometrics program, DOD said.
The company will conduct the research at […]