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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]