Mobile IDs are powerful credentials, and there are numerous use cases beyond proving driving privileges. The prospects are endless, from sporting permits to travel documents and gun licenses to health ...

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 ...

It’s not your great-grandfather’s biometric anymore as a new patent promises to deliver a fingerprint sensor in keyboard keys. The fingerprint has received another vote of confidence from another ...

SITA provides technology, communications and border security solutions to airlines, airports and governments. For this program, the company is providing facial capture and integration with the CBP ...

A new biometrics-enabled security key — a device anchored around fingerprints — could help change the game when it comes to access control and payment applications, according to Giesecke+Devrient, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Kantara Initiative, a nonprofit consortium focused on strategies for simplifying our digital lives, has launched three pilot projects exploring the use of smartphone solutions for digital ID and ...

Blockchain was created to serve as a public ledger for bitcoin transactions. It solved the double spend problem in digital currency, preventing anyone from duplicating data and spending the same ...

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 latest bid to displace passwords, Visa is trying out a wearable payment sticker that would attach to consumers’ skin to enable transactions and other tasks. The move represents the latest move ...

Taiwan digital ID to replace existing national ID According to that first report, “a sample of the new digital ID will be unveiled in April or May 2020, and a card production and issuance system and ...