Infineon Technologies will provide its security chips for France’s new electronic driver licenses. The new, polycarbonate smart cards will contain Infineon’s SLE78 microprocessor. The embedded microprocessor securely stores both the biometric and personal data of the license holder protecting identity and helping to reduce fraud. France’s state printer, Imprimerie Nationale, will produce the cards. As many as […]

Dutch Army commander Colonel Bernard Wulfse, has revealed that NATO is investing time, man power and resources into advancing the agency’s use of biometrics. Wulfse, who also works with the Joint Task Force Counter Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED), explained NATO’s increased biometric efforts at the Biometric Consortium Conference held this week in Tampa, Fla., stating […]

Sarasota County Sheriff’s Dept. turns to Morpho for fingerprint identification The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Department has adopted the MorphoBIS solution, which will be used to examine latent fingerprints and cold cases. The biometric purchase will set the county back $1.2 million, and will replace  a ten-year old system with faster technology and improved algorithms that are expected […]

The Marine Corps Systems Command is giving its Marines in the field the ability to pick out the bad guys from the good with a new biometric enrollment and screening device. An Urgent Statement of Need was issued six months ago and the Marine’s Force Protection Systems team along with Marine Air-Ground Task Force Command, […]

HID Global backs layered authentication to protect mobile banking HID Global is supporting the adoption of layered authentication as part of a larger, cost-effective security strategy for safeguarding online and mobile transactions from anywhere, and any device. One of HID Global’s focus areas is to make it easy for financial institutions to understand and interact […]

Ultra Electronics simplify card printing, joins aptiQ Alliance Ingersoll Rand has announced that Ultra Electronics Card Systems has joined the aptiQ Alliance program. Membership to the aptiQ Alliance means that Ultra Electronics customers using Magicard Rio Pro can now print and encode high security aptiQ smart cards for use at their own site, be it […]

Pierre Martin’s crime of armed robbery with a firearm is anything but revolutionary. His arrest, on the other hand, is a groundbreaking step forward for Chicago law enforcement as he became the first perpetrator in Chicago history to be apprehended a using the department’s facial-recognition software. Using little more than a Jan. 28 photo of the […]

Facial recognition biometrics is favored by a majority of individuals when applying for a driver license and for law enforcement when investigating crimes, according to a poll from Zogby Analytics. Some 78% of those surveyed favor the use of the technology when an individual is applying for a driver licenses. Thirty-five states have deployed the […]

The procedural crime drama on television will show a technician taking grainy surveillance camera footage, enhancing it, running it through a facial recognition database and coming up with a match in seconds. As with many things in Hollywood, this isn’t really how it works. Media reports after the Boston Marathon bombing were critical of facial […]

In an attempt to restrict fraudulent use of mobile SIM cards by criminals and terrorists, telecom service providers in India are planning to introduce biometric authentication. According to a Business Standard report, the push for full-proof verification is coming from Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar, who recently said the department of telecommunications (DoT) should institute […]