U.S. surveillance system shopped to national security agencies
New e-mail correspondence released by WikiLeaks reveals that TrapWire, supplier of a controversial U.S. security surveillance system, intended to sign…
Border and Port Security
Biometric access control systems used at airports and national or regional boundaries to track and manage the flow of humans, and the databases and documents that support them, make up border and port security. Includes national and immigration registries, ePassports and smart card systems, automated border control (ABC) kiosks, and apps for data sharing among other products and services.
LA to use new fingerprint and palm print scanners
Biometrics4ALL was selected by the Los Angeles County Regional Identification System (LACRIS) to supply the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (LASD)…
HID Global predicts rise in eID issuance
HID Global recently shared its perspective on electronic government identity programs. HID Global predicts that by the year 2015, about…
World’s smallest two-finger scanner released
Integrated Biometrics, a developer and manufacturer of high performance fingerprint biometric technologies, mainly used by the military and law enforcement…
Authorities test new biometric systems at Tokyo area airports
Recently, Japanese authorities began testing new biometric identification systems at Tokyo Haneda and Tokyo Narita airports. The latest biometric system…
U.S. surveillance system spying on public spaces
According to a series of recent news reports, former senior U.S. intelligence officials have created a detailed domestic surveillance system…
3M Cogent makes a mark at UK Post Office
The Applicant Enrollment Identification (AEI) service of the United Kingdom Post Office announced that they have processed the biometric data…
Resident ID cards gets approval from EFC
India’s Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC) has overruled objections by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on the issuance of…
India’s Aadhar and NPR at odds again
The National Population Register (NPR) will not be completed as expected by June 2013. The NPR is the identity database…
Biometrics technology to be used in Zimbabwe’s elections
According to a recent editorial in the New Zimbabwe newspaper, election fraud and rampant cheating has always hounded elections in…
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