Biometrics

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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