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 ...

Security experts at Infineon made a breakthrough in this area by implementing a post-quantum key exchange scheme on the commercially available contactless smart card chip. Key exchange schemes are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s not your great-grandfather’s biometric anymore as a new patent promises to deliver a fingerprint sensor in keyboard keys. The fingerprint has received another vote of confidence from another ...

A new biometrics-enabled security key — a device anchored around fingerprints — could help change the game when it comes to access control and payment applications, according to Giesecke+Devrient, ...

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 ...