Leading next-generation government and citizen ID event SDW 2017 has revealed year-on-year growth in visitorship of 6%, and a record level of conference attendees.

Malaysian identity solutions firm Iris Corp has appointed two new directors.

MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation selected as a foundry partner by ELAN Microelectronics to manufacture fingerprint sensor IC-based smart cards. 

The Belgian parliament has approved legislation on electronic identification.

Swiss-based cybersecurity/IoT company WISeKey has announced its new citizen digital identity platform under the Microsoft CityNext, a smart city programme.

Nigeria is considering the option of producing its ePassports in country, rather than relying on international firms.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced the deployment of facial recognition biometric exit technology to Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) for select flights from ORD.

Australia Post has released its highly anticipated digital identity verification solution Digital iD via a soft launch for consumers, government and businesses, with a biometrics-enabled version to be released in the coming months.

Hungarian secure identity solutions firm Jura has revealed that its LetterScreen++ ghost-image solution for passports has been patented.

Entrust Datacard launches ioTrust security solution.

Central Asian state Kyrgyzstan has begun issuing ICAO-compliant eIDs.

ITW Security Division has developed a new Laminate Patch that is designed to work with a wide variety of plastic ID Card substrates including PVC, PET and composite cards that have been personalised with a D2T2 or retransfer card printer.

Nigeria’s National Identity Management Commission rolls out SMS platform to access ID services

HID's Kathleen Carroll to chair SIA Data Privacy Advisory Board. 

TSA PreCheck Application Program enrols five million customers.

Clemens Berger becomes chairman of the management board of substrate and foil manufacturer.

Empowering e-government by shifting to smart cards is accelerating the arrival of a new era of mobile identity and electronic documents.

In this white paper, Hewlett Packard details an enterprise approach to mobile eID based on hardware tokens in microSD cards.

Citizen ID documents such as national IDs and driver licenses will ultimately follow the trend toward mobility.

To enable public administrations, companies and citizens to freely interact while retaining their formal relationships of liability, there needs to be a progressive development in the use of "digital trust" services.

Next-generation government and citizen identity event SDW 2017 has revealed that speaker proposals are now being accepted for its 11th edition.

secunet Security Networks has published the final set of test results from the SDW InterOp 2016 event held in London in May 2016.

More than 100 companies have already reserved stands for next-generation government identity solutions event SDW 2017, which will be held on 26-28 June, 2017 in the QEII Centre in London.

The organisers of SDW InterOp 2016 would like to, in the strongest terms, clarify that any vendor claims being made surrounding the reading speed of ePassports is not in any way an official result of the tests.