2014 marks the 40 th anniversary of Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS). In forty short years, fingerprint matching has become a part of everyday life; from law enforcement agencies ...

When you’re chasing down international criminals, the last thing you need is a passport inspection slowing you down at the border. That’s the idea behind the new travel documents issued to officers of ...

Biometric authentication in recent years has moved well beyond fingerprints, with projects involving faces, irises and even biometric cardiac signatures picking up steam. That’s right, a person’s ...

Applications will be accepted for the Florida mobile driver’s licenses in 2021, and the state has tapped Thales to provide verification and other services for that digital ID program. As Thales put it ...

Chinese facial recognition is perhaps the world’s most active laboratory for the biometric technology, and recent weeks have brought even more developments for that authentication method. All of this ...

2021 Women in Biometrics awardee Amy F. Turluck serves as Director of the Department of Defense Biometrics Operations Directorate, Defense Forensics Science Center. After nearly three decades in the ...

SSARM is one of the leading IT systems integrators in Bulgaria and was awarded a major contract to equip Bulgaria’s aviation hubs with EES-compliant border control solutions following a tender by the ...

The newly announced Catalan digital ID initiative will use blockchain technology to empower citizen service in the northeastern corner of Spain. The regional government of Catalan reportedly has ...

Evernym, a company using distributed ledger technology for identity, said it working with the Red Cross and four other global nonprofit groups on a project designed to boost the use and power of ...

ICAO estimates that as of July 2011, these 93 states have issued more than 345 million e-passports, of which almost 340 million are in circulation. As per ICAO specifications, each of these documents ...

The idea of the GET Mobile Driver’s License (mDL) offering – or GET Group NA’s other mobile ID products – is to enable citizens and issuing agencies to expand the trustworthiness of a physical card to ...

Biometric ID for first responders could help police and firefighters better respond to emergencies. Those authentication technologies, however, come with risks and challenges, according to a new draft ...