Contactless corridor powered by face biometrics coming to UK immigration
The UK Home Office’s vague plan for “some form of contactless corridor or automated gates for identity and security checks”…
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Europe reaches worldwide for digital health certificate standards
Europe is reaching out to countries around the world to work towards standards for digital health passes in the fight…
HID Global delivers Estonia’s new biometric passport solution and document issuance software
HID Global has confirmed the completion of a new ePassport solution and biometric document issuance software for the Republic of…
UK unveils enhanced border control plans with digital ID for visas
The UK has unveiled new plans to fully digitalize the country’s visa system, including digital ID integration. The move was…
6 requirements for successful vaccine passports in new report
The UK’s Ada Lovelace Institute, author of several recent substantive reports on emerging biometric systems, has another, on COVID vaccine…
Veridos shares first-half results of biometric D4Fly border-crossing project
Veridos has announced positive results for the first half of the D4Fly (Detecting Document frauD and iDentity on the fly)…
Security enhancements amid the biometric passport power shuffle
Singaporean biometric passports will double in validity length, New Zealand ones will become more secure and political changes see a…
DHS abandons proposed expansion of immigration biometrics collection
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has officially withdrawn its proposal to drastically expand biometrics collection from immigrants and others,…
Halt ordered in biometric scans for US work-visa spouses
U.S. immigration officials this month will suspend requiring the collection of face and fingerprint biometrics from the spouses of some…
Analysis says proposed Eurodac children’s biometrics collection carries legal risks
Proposed amendments to the Eurodac biometric system, which would make official the lower minimum age for biometrics collection and add…
