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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.

 

American Airlines deploys 20 dormakaba biometric boarding gates at Dallas Fort Worth

American Airlines has announced the official launch of its dormakaba eGates at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) in…

 

U.S. House lawmakers move to codify DHS biometric screening abroad

U.S. Reps. Michael McCaul and Henry Cuellar, both from Texas, reintroduced the BITMAP Authorization Act, a bipartisan bill that would…

 

Da Nang Airport opens biometric priority lane

Da Nang International Airport has introduced a dedicated priority lane for passengers using biometric identification. Airport director Phan Kieu Hung…

 

Authsignal brings identity orchestration to IATA as airlines modernize authentication

Authsignal has joined the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) Strategic Partnership Program. The announcement follows IATA’s World Data Symposium in…

 

EES rollout triggers delays, biometric suspensions at EU airports

The full launch of the Entry-Exit System (EES) last Friday has led to long queues, missed flights, and suspensions of…

 

VerXid deploys Barnksforte biometrics for Nigeria airport ID rollout

Nigeria will soon set up a face biometrics technology system dubbed VPass across its airports to facilitate identity verification for…

 

Idemia wins €7.5M immigration biometrics contract in Belgium

Idemia has won a 7.47 million euro (US$8.7 million) contract to renew and expand the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS)…

 

IATA trials show biometric, contactless air travel ‘works securely and efficiently’

A future of fully contactless international travel could pretty smoothly transition into the present. That’s the conclusion drawn from a…

 

Ryanair boss calls EES ‘a s***show’ with full biometrics check launch days away

With just four days until the scheduled full rollout on April 10, Europe’s Entry-Exit System (EES) is causing anxiety in…

 

Hong Kong airport adds more biometric immigration lanes to speed clearance

Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) has introduced 12 additional automated biometric clearance lanes for immigration, known as e-Channels, allowing eligible…

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