Archive for the 'ID Solutions' Category

South Africa to get Smart IDs

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 […]

Biometric smart card for Social Security proposed

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 […]

White Castle Satisfies its Craving for User Authentication

You might think that a company founded in 1921 would be slow on the uptake of cutting edge information technology. Not so for White Castle. This company has found a recipe for saving millions of dollars a year on processing paperwork for its 12,000 employees, and one of the ingredients is biometrics.
When an employee uses […]

Lockheed Wins $1B Biometrics Deal

The FBI on Tuesday selected Lockheed Martin for a $1 billion contract to build a database for fingerprints and other biometric information.
Lockheed Martin Corp., which built and maintains the FBI’s current 10-fingerprint database, was the expected winner among analysts. Making good on its incumbent status, the nation’s largest defense contractor will keep its hands on […]

Biometrics Registry Proposed

The White House National Science and Technology Council’s Subcommittee on Biometrics and Identity Management will now allow interagency governmental sharing of biometric identification.
It doesn’t seem like much of a story at first glance, but the Federal government has been working steadily on a government-wide standard for biometrics data capture, storage, and sharing. Currently each agency […]