All Things Identification News

World-wide news relating to identification technology and products with emphasis on id card printers, id cards, and name badges.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

ID card bid raises US security concern

Financial Times - London,England,UKBy Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington A leading US maker of identification cards has raised national security concerns after French defence electronics ...

Monday, June 23, 2008

Experts: Fingerprint errors may harm ID cards

ZDNet UK - UKExperts have warned that the ID-card scheme risks being derailed by mistakes in fingerprint matches. The £4.4bn National Identity Scheme's (NIS's) reliance ...

Friday, June 06, 2008

New voter ID cards issued

Cay Compass - Grand Cayman,Cayman IslandsElection office workers hit Hurley’s Supermarket Saturday in their drive to sign up voters for new voter identification cards. The election office’s Eldon

42-day detention: the threat to our liberty

Times Online - UKNor will they cut illegal immigration, since asylum-seekers have been obliged to carry ID cards for nearly eight years. Nor will they have any real impact ...


Bell ID uses latest GlobalPlatform card spec

SecureIDNews (press release) - Tallahassee,FL,USABell ID’s ANDiS4FIPS201 is an electronic card personalization product used to generate and load the PIV technology on government issued ID cards.

So, what are ID cards for?

Principia - Manchester,UKDaniel Dresner questions whether the Government has got the business case for ID cards right. Governments and administrations are transient but however ...


ID card critics query competitiveness of bidding process

Computing - London,UKLast month’s announcement that all five remaining suppliers bidding for £2bn-worth of contracts for the government’s ID card programme have gone through to ...

Ont. to develop enhanced photo ID for cross-border travel

Canoe.ca - Toronto,Ontario,CanadaBy THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - Ontario wants to offer enhanced photo identification cards as an alternative to a passport for non-drivers when they travel ...