Biometrics

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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Datastrip's award-winning card reader wins GAO approval
Handheld identity verification terminals certified as FIPS-201 compliant; system is the first single fingerprint device to be so honored; mobile system designed to create ad-hoc checkpoints beyond hardwired areas
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REAL-ID roll-out to be delayed
DHS offers states a reprieve by reinterpreting May 2008 deadline; states now expected to begin program at that date, but waivers will be given; late 2009 the new start date
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DHS abandons RFID for US-VISIT exit tracking
Tests at land border crossings found the technology unreliable; RFID tags were embedded in government forms; Smart Card Alliance applauds
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State legislators offer REAL-ID Web site
Intended to drum up opposition to the bill, site includes a searchable database of action at the state level, links to critical studies, an archive of related news stories, and a countdown clock
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