SINGAPORE--A national standard for smart card identification has been launched to ensure multiple cards can be read by a single reader. In a statement released Tuesday, Spring Singapore, a government ...

As the debate over a national personal identification system intensifies in the wake of Sept. 11, the smart card industry is gearing up a campaign to make sure its chip-based technology is the leading ...

Home Affairs can technically produce up to nine million smart ID cards annually. With the increase in locations where these ...

WASHINGTON — Imagine a so-called smart card that contained your U.S. government-checked identity, complete with biometric identifiers, plus your three credit-card accounts, your check card account, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation s increasingly high-tech soldiers are getting another computer in their arsenal — this one wallet-sized. The Pentagon began arming four million troops and civilians on ...

WASHINGTON - Top U.S. military officials unveiled today a new generation of "smart" identity cards, but were still weighing whether to add medical data and other information to the chip-based ID cards ...

NEW DELHI, India, August 15 (UNHCR) - Gurbachan can boast that at just 13 years of age she has become a pathfinder. The Afghan teenager recently became one of the first refugees to receive an ID smart ...

Oman became the first Arab country to introduce a machine-read smart card with stored thumb-print when the country's first ID card was issued in His Majesty Sultan Qaboos's name at a function held ...

Kenya’s transition from the old red booklet licence to the digital smart card driving licence is now fully integrated into the eCitizen platform. The upgrade enhances security, simplifies verification ...

BANGALORE, India, Sept. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- SmartSoC Solutions Private Limited, an Indian semiconductor design and product engineering company, today announced a strategic partnership with Cortus ...

The thing discouraging South Africans from upgrading to smart ID cards in 2025 are long queues and extensive wait times, reports Business Tech. It’s a huge bugbear for the Department of Home Affairs ...