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 ...

Legislation in Virginia will create uniform standards for strengthening and authenticating digital identities. The Commonwealth of Virginia is taking the lead on this issue, as the first in the nation ...

With its new LA Wallet, Louisiana becomes the first state to actually rollout digital driver’s licenses to its citizenry. While other states have piloted the mobile licenses, this is the first ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A number of countries have turned to biometrics as a solution to prevent voter fraud during national elections, and they’ve met with surprising success. California-based DigitalPersona is assisting ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released a “Biometric Strategic Framework” outlining plans for its use of biometric technologies until 2025. The goal of the document is to create a strategy ...

What is all the fuss about post-quantum cryptography on smart cards? Well, with vastly superior computing power, quantum computers have the potential to break the current encryption algorithms used to ...