Millions of television viewers watch each week as detectives pull latent fingerprints from crime scenes and catch bad guys with the help of a massive fingerprint database. Avid viewers even know it by ...

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 ...

A pilot in Austin, TX, seeks to consolidate and safely store the identity documents, medical records and other forms that prove the identity of people who live on the street. The pilot, backed by ...

Nearly half of all United Nations (U.N.) member states are now issuing biometric e-passports, according to the newest data from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the U.N. agency ...

A new Visa concept involves putting a payment sticker on a consumer’s hand to authenticate payments and other tasks, such as those conducted on the Internet of Things. Questions remain about identity ...

Embedded into a complete tag, the ultra small chip contains a unique 64-bit ID number and will optimize product availability for customers . MARIN, Switzerland – November 11, 2003 – EM Microelectronic ...

Dorothy Bullard, manager of marketing publications, MorphoTrak. 2014 marks the 40 th anniversary of Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS). In forty short years, fingerprint matching has ...

In this podcast episode, SecureIDNews' Gina Jordan talks with Colin Wallis about Kantara's three pilots recently funded by the Department of Homeland Security. Each pilot focuses on a unique aspect of ...

In this podcast, part 2 of our conversation with Andre Boysen of SecureKey, we explore the specifics of how ledger-based cryptographic systems like blockchain can empower digital identity. Learn how ...

Digital ID technology, already on the upswing during the pandemic, has gained an even higher profile in recent weeks as governments try to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and reopen their societies ...

In the late 1800s a German physicist named Heinrich Hertz created radio waves in the laboratory. A century later, we are still expanding upon Hertz’s discovery. Radio waves make possible all wireless ...

Taiwan is making big progress toward its new digital card for the 24 million citizens. The most recent development, according to a report, is that the country’s cabinet in late August approved a plan ...