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 ...

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 ...

A number of countries have turned to biometrics as a solution to prevent voter fraud during national elections, and they’ve met with surprising success. California-based DigitalPersona is assisting ...

Digital ID for homeless powered by blockchain technology could make like easier and save the hassle of replacing lost IDs—that’s the idea behind a test under way in Austin, TX. The pilot program in ...

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 ...

Legislation in Virginia will create uniform standards for strengthening and authenticating digital identities. The Commonwealth of Virginia is taking the lead on this issue, as the first in the nation ...

One of the most infamous cyber attacks in history was the Stuxnet computer worm in 2010 that – among other things – caused a number of Iranian nuclear centrifuges to spin out of control and destroy ...

Face morphing, where an attacker merges photos of two people into a single image, is a specialty of Mei Ngan, Computer Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and leader in ...

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 ...

What is all the fuss about post-quantum cryptography on smart cards? Well, with vastly superior computing power, quantum computers have the potential to break the current encryption algorithms used to ...

Chinese digital ID will merge with smartphone-based payments in a project scheduled to roll out soon. The project, which also involves facial recognition, will put the country’s all-important and ...

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 ...