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Michigan college offers biometric degree
Davenport University is the second in the country to offer such a program; southerners can take a try at West Virginia U.
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ClassifEye enters the European market
Israeli company, known for technology that permits fingerprint authentication via mobile phone, strikes a joint venture deal with Dymacon Business Solutions
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RFID market to hit $1.6 billion by 2011
Frost & Sullivan sees tremendous growth in the ePassport and micro-payment sectors; RF-RFID confusion remains a problem, however
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Photocopiers the latest identity theft risk
Newer models store images on hard drives; without proper encryption, a Kinkos employee could go to town
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Bundesdruckerei enters the European Citizen Card market
Multiformat offering comes after company shines at the Turin Olympics
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Third Eye introduces employee stress monitor
Designed for medical monitoring, wrist-mounted device detects suspicious behavior
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Canada orders 415 new Viisage readers
$2.8 million contract will bring the total number of ePassport readers to 815 nationwide, making the Canadian program the single largest deployment of its kind
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Digimarc signs Mozambique driver's licence deal
Deal just the latest African success for the digital watermarking company; Digimarc releases earnings report
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Honeywell to license ImageWare for HSPD-12 efforts
Three-year, royalty-based licensing agreement follows on previous successes between the two companies
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Smartrac sets RFID inlay production record
Dutch company manufactured 11 million smart card inlays in February
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Will 2007 finally be the Year of Biometrics?
Industry has often suffered from its own hype; breakthroughs in the consumer market in 2006, however, may have been the tipping point
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States choose their own paths in regulating RFID
HID Global’s Kathleen Carroll takes on lawmakers in California, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire; Golden State legislators want to force full technical disclosure to consumers
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Gemalto wins Portuguese national ID contract
France-based companies dominance of the European identification market continues; new ID will include social security, taxpayer, and health care numbers; cardholders will use a PIN number to authenticate themselves; card can be used to sign government documents
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British to fingerprint and iris-scan all children aged 11-16
Leaked documents from the Home Office outrage privacy advocates; children’s data to be stored by the Immigration and Nationality Directorate until age 16, when information will be added to the National Identity Register; compulsory ID cards to be delayed until 2019
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Technical committee advises against TWIC encryption
National Maritime Security Advisory Committee says encryption would lead to higher costs, increased processing times, and roll-out delays, with little added security value; unencrypted fingerprint template offered as alternative
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The long view
“The Federal Government Is Gone”: Under Trump, the Fight Against Extremist Violence Is Left Up to the States
As President Donald Trump guts the main federal office dedicated to preventing terrorism, states say they’re left to take the lead in spotlighting threats. Some state efforts are robust, others are fledgling, and yet other states are still formalizing strategies for addressing extremism. With the federal government largely retreating from focusing on extremist dangers, prevention advocates say the threat of violent extremism is likely to increase.