Facial recognition boarding at Miami International Airport
As the biometric authentication spreads — this latest project in Miami involves Lufthansa Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and SITA. It relies on live facial photos checked against CBP databases for...
View ArticleNew Tanzania travel ID includes smartphone digital passport
The HID-designed digital travel documents were first issued in Tanzania about a year ago and include an e-passport plus and emergency version for smartphones. The post New Tanzania travel ID includes...
View ArticleU.S. Customs looks to integrate facial recognition and body cameras
A request for vendor information from the federal agency signals the convergence of facial recognition technology and agents’ body cameras for better field work. The post U.S. Customs looks to...
View Article2020 Women in Biometrics Award winner: Annet Steenbergen, Government of Aruba
Annet Steenbergen is the co-founder/initiator of the Aruba Happy Flow biometric border control project for the Government of Aruba. The journey to Happy Flow began 25 years ago when she stumbled into a...
View Article2020 Women in Biometrics Award winner: Anne May, Office of Biometric Identity...
2020 Women in Biometrics award winner Anne May is the OBIM Biometric Support Center Lead for the Office of Biometric Identity Management with the Department of Homeland Security. She wound up in this...
View ArticleAustralian biometric ID launched for travelers
The program, backed by Unisys and IDEMIA, can handle 100,000 daily transactions, and also will be used for citizenship applications. The system facilitates the processing of legitimate travelers and is...
View ArticleEstonia turns to secunet eID for advanced travel document control
As Estonia continues to build out its electronic machine readable travel documents capability — another feather in the cap of in the nation’s digital ID infrastructure — the Baltic country has turned...
View ArticleIDEMIA joins UK passport ID check pilot
A digital passport authentication project in the UK will include the participation of IDEMIA. This deal marks the latest digital ID development in that country, and an example of a potential...
View ArticleApple launching vaccination status, passports in Apple Wallet
Two new efforts from the tech giant point to more mainstream use of electronic passports and offering pandemic status updates for travelers. The post Apple launching vaccination status, passports in...
View ArticleNew EES technologies at Bulgaria´s aviation hubs
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...
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