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Thales Digital Identity and Security
Thales (stock info) is a global technology leader shaping the world of tomorrow today. The Group provides solutions, services and products to customers in the aeronautics, space, transport, digital identity and security, and defense markets. With 83,000 employees in 68 countries, Thales generated sales of €19 billion in 2019 (on a pro forma basis including Gemalto over 12 months).
Thales is investing in particular in digital innovations – connectivity, Big Data, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity – technologies that support businesses, organizations and governments in their decisive moments.
Thales Digital Identity and Security Biometrics News
Experts discuss pandemic shifting of airport biometrics emphasis, as new implementations unveiled
The adoption of airport biometrics is unlikely to be slowed by the pandemic, experts from Aruba and Vision-Box suggested during…
| Jan 14, 2021 | Cameroon moves to tackle hurdles impeding biometric IDs’ smooth issuanceCameroon’s general delegation for national security, the body charged with overseeing the issuance of biometrics-backed digital national identity cards for… |
| Jan 4, 2021 | BNP Paribas to begin issuing biometric payment cards to all customers within 6 monthsBiometric payment cards companies are starting out 2021 with a bang, as the first general roll-out of cards with integrated… |
| Dec 3, 2020 | Thales fingerprint biometric card named among top 100 business ideas of the yearThe fingerprint-enabled biometric card from Thales has been declared among the 100 best business ideas of the year by Actualidad Económica… |
| Dec 1, 2020 | Mastercard, Thales and Idemia promote biometric payment cards’ easy enrollmentCompanies developing biometric payment cards are hard at work exploring their benefits, potential alternative uses, and their enrollment processes in… |
| Nov 23, 2020 | Idemia to help war-torn Libya establish biometric digital ID systemA deal has been struck for Idemia to assist the north African nation of Libya in putting in place a… |
| Oct 29, 2020 | Thales launches remote biometric identity verification suite with passive livenessThales has launched a new Gemalto Identity Verification Suite (IDV) to provide biometrics and document authenticity verification for secure remote customer… |
| Oct 14, 2020 | Mobile drivers’ licenses from Thales coming to Florida in 2021Thales has been selected by Florida to provide mobile drivers’ licenses with robust security and full compliance with national and international… |
| Oct 1, 2020 | Thales, Zetes contracted for embedded biometrics and forgery protections of new Belgian passportsThe next generation of passports in Belgium will be produced by Thales and personalized with biometric and biographical data by Zetes under… |
| Sep 21, 2020 | Thales wins contract for Swedish biometric travel and identity documentsThales announced its subsidiary AB Svenska Pass has been awarded the contract to manufacture around 12 million biometric identity documents… |
| Aug 6, 2020 | Thales-led consortium delivers Thailand’s new biometric passportsThailand has officially launched a new passport with embedded biometrics, produced by a consortium including Thales. The e-passport has been… |
| Jul 29, 2020 | CyberLink, ISS and Thales integrations provide face biometrics for physical access control systemsCyberLink has formed a strategic alliance to provide its FaceMe biometric facial recognition engine to surveillance solution provider Lilin for contactless… |
| Jun 28, 2020 | Africans assess national biometric projects as Thales enters digital ID talks with DRCThere is a sense of reflection in Nigeria over the country’s ambitions to provide ID to all, with multiple reports… |
| Jun 26, 2020 | First commercial biometric payment cards issued in France to be powered by Thales and Fingerprint CardsBNP Paribas is expected to launch a new biometric bank card this fall in significant numbers, according to Le Parisien,… |
| Jun 26, 2020 | Public health and retail biometric facial recognition applications expand amid uneven trust environmentA survey by the European Union’s agency for fundamental rights (FRA) shows that only 6 percent of consumers are willing… |
| Jun 25, 2020 | Thales, Idex Biometrics and SmartMetric see biometric payment cards opportunity in contactless spikeBiometric technology providers continue to prepare for the mass adoption of fingerprint-enabled payment cards, and taking a recent spike in… |
| Jun 15, 2020 | Role of biometrics for safe travel reopening examined by IBIA Executive DirectorBiometrics will play a critical role in the redesign and future success of the aviation industry, but expanded outreach education… |
| May 28, 2020 | Consumer anticipation of biometric payments surges as contactless takes over from cashCash is disappearing and payment cards are being used more, shifting consumer attitudes about biometrics for payments and presenting a… |
| May 19, 2020 | Role of biometrics in air travel recovery discussed by CBP and Thales execs in new IBIA podcastExecutives from government and the private sector discuss how U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) biometric partnerships can help to… |
| May 12, 2020 | Thales receives Frost & Sullivan award for tech innovation with Gemalto digital ID walletFrost & Sullivan has awarded Thales with the 2019 Global Company of the Year award for the Gemalto digital ID… |
