Four women are working around the clock to implement biometric identification for the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) in New Delhi, India. Kavita Belani, Aradhana Jena, Teena Joseph ...

Digital ID for homeless powered by blockchain technology could make like easier and save the hassle of replacing lost IDs—that’s the idea behind a test under way in Austin, TX. The pilot program in ...

Chinese digital ID will merge with smartphone-based payments in a project scheduled to roll out soon. The project, which also involves facial recognition, will put the country’s all-important and ...

Password sharing is a rampant problem, according to a survey from LastPass. Some 95% of those surveyed admit to sharing six passwords with other people. Typically the sharing is with a spouse or ...

ICAO estimates that as of July 2011, these 93 states have issued more than 345 million e-passports, of which almost 340 million are in circulation. As per ICAO specifications, each of these documents ...

With its new LA Wallet, Louisiana becomes the first state to actually rollout digital driver’s licenses to its citizenry. While other states have piloted the mobile licenses, this is the first ...

SSARM is one of the leading IT systems integrators in Bulgaria and was awarded a major contract to equip Bulgaria’s aviation hubs with EES-compliant border control solutions following a tender by the ...

2021 Women in Biometrics awardee Marta Garcia Gomar is the Chief Technology Officer at IDENTY Touchless ID. For nearly a quarter of a century, Marta Gomar has dedicated herself to biometrics. She was ...

EveryKey, a device for control access, zoomed to 676 percent of its crowd funding target on IndieGogo in January. The product is being promoted by “EveryKey chief evangelist” John McAfee, the same guy ...

Automobiles are vulnerable to being hacked these days much like computers. It’s becoming more common for modern cars to come equipped with on board computers and other electronic systems that connect ...

The collection of biometric data in Florida public schools was prohibited under a law that went into effect this summer. Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed the legislation, prohibiting schools from taking ...

It was late June of 2014 when businessman John Edge was invited to a screening of a short film directed by actress Lucy Liu. “Meena” is about an 8-year-old girl sold to a brothel and forced into sex ...