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Government Printing Works (GPW) of South Africa has selected Gemalto's Sealys eID portfolio for their national identity program. GPW will harness Gemalto’s secure embedded software to protect the holder’s image and biometric data within the secure identity e-document, delivering outstanding levels of integrity and privacy. Moreover, GPW selected the high-end Sealys document fitted with the…
The Hungarian Banknote Printing Shareholding Company, HBPC in short, Hungary's premier security printer, was present at the 2013 Security Document World in London. We spoke to Maik Pogoda (HBPC) and András Kassai (DIPA) about the importance of international networks and developments in Hungary and beyond with regards to secure printing and secure ID. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq0jMdUiDPs
Five years after initiating the first phase of the ePassport scheme in India, the government is reported to move on the roll out of the much anticipated next phase. Piloted in 2008, ePassports were issued initially to diplomats and other high-level officials. Now, after a successful, albeit long, trial period, the responsible Ministry of External…
Mohsen Bentouati of Tunisia's Ministry of Vocational Training and Employment, says a biometric identification card pilot program could benefit a wide range of government workforce programs. Several unemployment support groups first requested Tunisia implement a biometric ID card system in 2011 as a way of covering all employment services. For instance, a student would be…
Developing on its vision of “Empowering residents of India with a unique identity and a digital platform to authenticate anytime, anywhere”, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) unveiled three new Aadhaar-enabled services and announced the establishment of first set of permanent enrolment centres (Aadhaar Kendras). The services that were launched are: Authentication services using Iris,…
The SNEDAI (Société nationale d’édition de documents administratifs et d’identification du Sénégal) has awarded Zetes with a contract to produce the Senegalese biometric visa. This project will see Zetes deliver 66 fixed enrolment stations to embassies, consulates and Senegalese border posts. It also makes Zetes responsible for data consolidation and AFIS deduplication (Automated Fingerprint Identification…
Infineon Technologies is supplying security chips to Taiwan’s electronic passport program. Infineon is the only supplier and has started shipping security chips of the SLE78 product family based on the digital security technology “Integrity Guard”. Taiwan has been issuing one million electronic passports (ePassports) per year to its approximately 23 million citizens since 2008. The…
Infineon's Björn Scharfen speaks at the Contactless Intelligence Spring Conference 2013 about the importance of Secure NFC and the vital role that it plays in mobile commerce. http://youtu.be/Bt7FdLD1vps