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 ...

A major hurdle has been cleared in the Morpho acquisition by U.S. private equity firm, Advent International. The European Union antitrust regulators approved the acquisition of Morpho, the biometrics ...

G&D prides itself on being the world’s number two producer of smart cards. But G&D is about more than just smart cards. For one, its genealogy dates back to 1852 when two men first created the company ...

Miwa Lock has launched their new AL5H hotel card lock system that combines Magstripe and smart card technologies into one lock to meet a wide variety of hotel security needs. The AL5H has been ...

HID Global enables workers to get in the front door of offices around the world. Many people see the three letters, either on their cards or access control readers, but odds are they don’t really know ...

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 ...

Oberthur Technologies may just be the ‘youngest old company’ in the card business. Sound like a contradiction? Consider this, it was founded in the mid-1800s but it was just twenty years ago that its ...

In the world of payments, contactless technology continues to make waves. With more than 20 million cards issued in the last year, more contactless payment devices in more consumers’ hands, means a ...

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, ...

The Singapore Standard 529 Smart Card ID (SSID) has a new standard, based on information specifications in Singapore’s e-passport, which will enable one card to be used for access control, retail or ...

Back in December 2016, 3M announced that it would sell its identity management business to Gemalto for $850 million. That deal has been completed following approval by the relevant regulatory and ...

Royal Oman Police, in its role as passport issuing authority of the Sultanate of Oman, awarded HJP Consulting (HJP) with a consulting contract for the new Omani e-passport project. This is HJP’s ...