Many people don’t have easy access to the Internet, yet state governments and others are increasingly moving services online. How do the states ensure that these people have access to these services and are able to enroll an identity? Regarding ID’s Gina Jordan posed these questions and more to ABI Research’s Phil Sealy. Listen via […]

The UN Refugee Agency has started deploying biometrics to enable displaced travelers to move between camps without having to be enrolled at each new stop.

A bill passed by the Virginia General Assembly and is awaiting the governor’s signature will go a long way toward enabling Virginians to dump most of their passwords in favor of a single digital identity credential. The proposal would establish uniform standards for strengthening and authenticating digital identities.

Insurance and banking provider USAA is rolling out biometric authentication on its mobile app and the financial services company says face and voice recognition capability should be available nationwide to all of its 10.6 million customers in the coming weeks.

Iowa is America’s first state to take steps toward implementing a digital driver license. The Iowa Department of Transportation has been talking about the possibility with identity provider MorphoTrust USA for about a year. The concept is being readied for a pilot phase, and planners are looking at the potential of a public launch in 2016.

Body recognition biometrics may be the most accurate form of authentication, based on theoretical research conducted at the University of Adelaide. A PhD student used an old online database of body measurements from 4,000 U.S. military personnel to come up with this system. What she found is that a series of large body measurements combined with one another is better than facial recognition.

Health care providers are starting to see the benefit of using biometrics for patient identification. These benefits include: less fraud, fewer duplicate records, shorter wait times. M2SYS Technology’s Michael Trader and Novant Health’s Melanie Wilson chat with Regarding ID’s Gina Jordan about biometrics in health care.

Microsoft is seizing the opportunity to hook up with Internet-connected devices and turning to the cloud to provide consumers with more identity authentication options, while also helping organizations embrace a bring-your–own-device (BYOD) policy. Alex Simons, director of program management for Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory, fills Regarding ID’s Gina Jordan in on the latest from the computing giant.

Confyrm is one of the latest winners of a pilot for the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, with a two year, $2.4 million award that will demonstrate ways to minimize loss when criminals create fake accounts or take over online accounts. An obstacle to federated identity is the concern that accounts used in identity solutions may not be legitimate, or in the control of their rightful owner. Andrew Nash, founder and CEO of Confyrm, fills Gina Jordan in on some of the details surrounding the pilot.

MorphoTrust is among the latest round of pilot winners for the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. The company is working with North Carolina and about half a dozen partners to create an electronic ID for accessing online services that will be issued at the same time as a driver license.