Nearly half of all United Nations (U.N.) member states are now issuing biometric e-passports, according to the newest data from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the U.N. agency ...

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 ...

Dorothy Bullard, manager of marketing publications, MorphoTrak 2014 marks the 40 th anniversary of Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS). In forty short years, fingerprint matching has ...

Mobile IDs are powerful credentials, and there are numerous use cases beyond proving driving privileges. The prospects are endless, from sporting permits to travel documents and gun licenses to health ...

Newly out of college, Jeni Best was working for a Texas probation department when a co-worker needed some moral support. “My office mate made me go take the immigration test with him because he didn’t ...

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 Kantara Initiative, a nonprofit consortium focused on strategies for simplifying our digital lives, has launched three pilot projects exploring the use of smartphone solutions for digital ID and ...

Blockchain was created to serve as a public ledger for bitcoin transactions. It solved the double spend problem in digital currency, preventing anyone from duplicating data and spending the same ...

Digital ID technology, already on the upswing during the pandemic, has gained an even higher profile in recent weeks as governments try to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and reopen their societies ...

Taiwan digital ID to replace existing national ID According to that first report, “a sample of the new digital ID will be unveiled in April or May 2020, and a card production and issuance system and ...

“I think it’s inevitable that mobile driver’s licenses will be a part of our future,” says Joseph Pearson, North America Sales Vice President for Citizen ID Solutions for HID Global. “It’s only been ...

Florida residents will be able to simply activate their mobile identification application, select the type of verification needed, and hold up their mobile device. The mobile device never leaves the ...