Applications will be accepted for the Florida mobile driver’s licenses in 2021, and the state has tapped Thales to provide verification and other services for that digital ID program. As Thales put it ...

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 ...

A recent report from Australia Post outlines a forward-thinking plan for a nationwide digital identity initiative. Though the country’s postal service is focused on the specific needs of Australians, ...

2014 marks the 40 th anniversary of Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS). In forty short years, fingerprint matching has become a part of everyday life; from law enforcement agencies ...

In the UK, High Street is where the pharmacy, dry cleaner and shoe repair shops are located, the U.S. equivalent of Main Street. A staple on High Streets across the country is Timpson, a shoe repair ...

2021 Women in Biometrics awardee Amy F. Turluck serves as Director of the Department of Defense Biometrics Operations Directorate, Defense Forensics Science Center. After nearly three decades in the ...

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 ...

As more countries move to adopt digital ID programs, such efforts are attracting the interest of other players in the larger identification ecosystem. Australia provides a fresh example of that, with ...

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 ...

When it comes to creating a secure credential, there is no single piece of technology that will stand in a criminal’s way. Driven by powerful economics, overseas counterfeiters have been able to keep ...

Automobile facial recognition software in the 2019 Subaru Forrester could cut down on distracted driving while making another case for biometrics in vehicles. The biometric technology in the ...

As digital ID and blockchain move closer together—potentially impacting everything from airport security checks to benefits delivery—a new paper from the Kantara Initiative takes a deep look at the ...