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AdvanIDe expands its senior management team and reorganises operations to strengthen growth opportunities in established and emerging market segments.
Morpho (Safran) has signed a major eBorder deal with the United Arab Emirates that includes the implementation of 96 e-Gates and 94 e-Counters in five major airports.
Latvia has launched a biometric ePassport with a design based on the Latvian Song and Dance Festival.
North Dakota plans to introduce enhanced drivers' licenses which feature the RFID contactless technology and biometric data storage needed to cross the Canadian border.
Maharashtra state has launched a digital identity project with Microsoft India that will consolidate welfare schemes that linked to biometric "Aadhaar" ID numbers.
Delaware plans to follow Iowa in launching a pilot of a licence that is stored on a device.
The Smart Card Alliance has noted progress in its Identity, Access Control and Health and Human Services Councils in 2014.
MULANN announces changes to its management structure to support and enable the company’s plans for growth.
Ireland will launch a smartcard in July which citizens can use for travel within the EU and the European Economic Area.
GenKey releases BioFinger SDK designed for election and health markets.
Istanbul's Ataturk Airport has added four eGates with fingerprint scanners.
A $10 billion border security bill that requires the completion of a biometric entry/exit system has been approved by the Homeland Security Committee
Hong Kong will spend US$387 million on improved citizen ID cards with better microchips and storage capacity.
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Canada’s passport has been hailed as “the coolest in the world” after a blogger published images of the passport's designs when shown under blacklight
Morpho (Safran) has won a three-year contract to supply the Slovak Republic with driver’s licences.
SecureID plans to build the first EMV-certified smartcard manufacturing plant in Lagos.
French firm Oberthur has been awarded a contract for a national Bangladeshi ID project.
Iowa state's plans to pilot a digital driver's licence stored on a smartphone prompted debate across the globe. MorphoTrust VP Jenny Openshaw discusses how her firm arrived at the concept and how it will evolve over the coming years.
SDW spoke with prepress and personalisation solutions firm Jura’s marketing manager, Barna Barabas about his firm's plans for SDW 2015.
SDW spoke with passport, visa, and ID issuing solutions firm GET GROUP about its plans for SDW 2015.
Looking ahead to 2020, many studies show the predominant role that mobile devices and - more broadly - connected objects, will have in our lives.
Gemalto discusses how some visionary countries have made the leap to mobile identity or m-ID, meaning the creation of a mechanism - initiated using the eID component - for accessing online services with a high level of security thanks to mobile devices.
Travel documents confirm the identity of persons and enable seamless and secure international travel but are only as satisfactory as the identification-related systems behind their production, issuance, control and inspection.
Gemalto discusses the International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) considers new global approach, the Traveler identification Program (TRIP) initiative.
eDLs present a significant opportunity for issuing authorities to provide meaningful services to motorists. At the same time, these new licenses can simplify administration, provide higher-quality data and services, and can make organizations more efficient. NXP reports.
The next evolution of the ePassort standard will introduce the ability to add data to the electronic component of the passport post issue, in order to load and read information such as biometric data or electronic visas and entry/exit stamps during its lifetime. Gemalto discusses the importance of selecting the right partners and suppliers for this task.
SDW has sold all exhibition space more than six months ahead of the SDW 2015 show.
Held at the height of the English summer, SDW 2014, the world's leading next-generation government and citizen identity conference and exhibition continued to demonstrate its importance to the secure document and identity industry, once again breaking attendance records and consolidating its place on the industry’s calendar as ‘the must-attend event’.
The overwhelming success of the inaugural connect:ID exhibition and conference at the Ronald Reagan Center in Washington, DC exceeded expectations for event hosts - the IBIA and Science Media Partners.
Preparations are well underway for connect:ID 2015
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