On July 11, the first flight of Norwegian Air using facial recognition for boarding left from Los Angeles airport to Barcelona.

WISeKey, Swiss based cybersecurity, IoT and blockchain company combining traditional Cryptographic Trust Models with blockchain global distributed ledgers, is creating a new platform.

Canada and the Netherlands have given more details on a pilot project for paperless travel between the two countries.

Nigeria's Federal Government has cancelled the printing of e-passports by companies other than the Nigerian Printing and Minting Company.

Thales announced this week the closing of the sale of its General Purpose Hardware Security Module (GP HSM) business to Entrust Datacard, a leading provider of trusted identity and secure issuance technology solutions.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the distribution of electronic passports or ePassports this month, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said Thursday. 

Following the recent appointment of Global Sales Director for Airport and Airlines and the opening of a new London office, Regula is expanding its international presence with Regula Deutschland GmbH based in Kaarst, Germany

 Vision-Box and partners have today signed an agreement to officially launch the “Known Traveler Digital Identity” service, which will facilitate paperless border clearance between Canada and The Netherlands.

The Transportation Security Administration said on 20 june that it has no plans to make biometric identity-verification mandatory, although the agency continues to study and pilot different technologies to make passenger screening more efficient.

India's ministry of external affairs has announced that it is working on a chip-enabled ePassport as the ministry pursues reforms to deliver citizen-centric services.

Speaking at the Identity Week conference on 11 June, the Minister for Implementation, Oliver Dowden MP, provided an update on GOV.UK Verify and set out the government’s next steps towards enabling the creation of a digital identity market.

In this interview, Michael Schwaiger, Senior Product Manager in the Homeland Security division of Germany's secunet gives us some background info about the biometric Entry/Exit System (EES)

HID Global has signed an agreement to acquire the international identity solutions business of De La Rue.

Laxton will formally launch the ChameleonD at SDW-IDENTITY WEEK 2019 in London from 11-13 June. The Chameleon D is an addition to the Chameleon Biometrics family of products in the form factor of an integrated, multi-modal biometric desktop device.

An expert’s guide to using the paper elements of a passport.

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

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