Finally, a video game tailor made for the avid RegardingID reader. Data Dealer is a new online game from a group of Austrian game developers that is all about collecting and selling people’s personal data. According to Data Dealer’s official site, the game is full of “irony and gleeful sarcasm,” but is ultimately a game […]

PayPal is working with shopkeepers in London’s Richmond High Street shopping district to accept customer payments via mobile devices and their profile pictures. According to the company’s official blog, PayPal has added a new, “Local” tab to its existing app that enables users to find shops or restaurants in your area that accept mobile PayPal […]

As identification technologies evolve, so too do hackers. This was a topic of discussion at Smart Card Alliance’s 11th Annual Government Convention held in Washington, D.C. in November. “If you don’t first know who’s on your network, you don’t really know if they’re supposed to be there,” says Betsy Hight, vice president of the Cybersecurity […]

Villanova University conducted a five-month pilot using Apple iPhones sporting NFC-enabled cases to give a group of student’s physical access to dorms and dining halls. Kathy Gallagher, director of Card Systems at Villanova University, reveals that the pilot included iPhone 4 and 4S models because those were the devices that were most common amongst students. […]

The Department of Defense and other federal agencies that employ the strong authentication credentials for daily use may have found an email assurance solution. Certipath discussed its email assurance solution at Smart Card Alliance’s 11th Annual Government Conference held in Washington, D.C. “Digitally signed emails don’t have a lot of info about the assurance level […]

Robert Lemley, director of Software Development with CBORD, details the latest contactless credentials and discusses the pros and cons of selecting a solution. Lemley explains what solutions like HID’s iCLASS and MIFARE’s DESFire EV1 can offer by examining costs, features and functionalities. Lemley believes that the day of multiple credential support is coming. “Today, we […]

Many Federal agencies are using credentials like the PIV or Common Access Cards to access secure portals using mobile devices.  At Smart Card Alliance’s Government Conference, representatives from Silanis and Juniper Networks demonstrated  solutions for the use of smart cards on Apple iOS devices. In response to federal pilots using mobile devices, Silanis has developed […]

In the past year, iris leader AOptix processed more than 5 million passengers through aviation security and immigration environments. The company expects to scale to 50 million per year in the next 18 months. It is changing the way people travel, the way airports manage their footprints and the way immigration authorities manage biometrics at […]

NexID is a spinoff from West Virginia University and Clarkson University that develops technology to determine if a fingerprint image is from a live finger or a spoof. Both optical and capacitive fingerprint readers are suspect to spoofing, but NexID’s software algorithms can be used to train these scanners to recognize spoofs, explains Mark Cornett, […]

IEEE launched the Certified Biometric Professional (CBP) program in 2009. In July 2012 it launched version 2.0 of the training program that is used by candidates preparing for the 150-question multiple choice exam. Version 2.0 includes updates to sections including compliance and standards, methods and applications, system design and implementation as well as new descriptions […]