Self-service immigration eGates tested at Dublin Airport

Certain passengers arriving at Dublin Airport are able to avail of self-service immigration control at Ireland's borders thanks to a pilot of automated border control (ABC) gates put in place by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service(INIS) and the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA). As part of this project, SITA's iBorders biometric gates use the latest…

Suprema inks biometric ePassport contract with Mexican Government

Suprema Inc. has won a nationwide electronic passport project for the Mexico Government. The project, steered by Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE, Ministry of Exterior) of Mexico, is aimed to develop passport issuing system for 2.7 million electronic passports across all 32 states in Mexico including the Federal District of Mexico City. With the initial…

Schiphol to process millionth passenger using eGate border crossing technology

The Automated Border Control System, the electronic border crossing gates or e-gates, at  Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, has processed nearly 1 million passengers and is on target to reach that milestone in December. The eGates, which were deployed in March 2012, were developed by Accenture  and Vision-Box for the Netherlands Ministry of Internal Affairs and have reduced transit…

‘New P@ss’ project investigates new security technologies for mobile eID applications

Infineon Technologies and NXP Semiconductors Germany GmbH, both manufacturers of security ICs, as well as the specialist for secure chip card systems Giesecke & Devrient (G&D), are investigating how future generations of electronic identification documents can be made more secure and efficient. The three companies form the German consortium of the “New P@ss” research project…

EC Digital Agenda: new Regulation to enable cross-border electronic signatures and to get more value out of electronic identification in Digital Single Market

The European Commission has proposed new rules to enable cross-border and secure electronic transactions in Europe. The proposed Regulation will ensure people and businesses can use their own national electronic identification schemes (e-IDs) to access public services in other EU countries where e-IDs are available. It also creates an internal market for e-Signatures and related…

The travel function policy on national eID in the European Union

By Detlef Houdeau and Chris Shire, Infineon Technologies Currently, the EU policy for cross border control processes cannot be described as harmonized. When looking at this topic, it is important to note that the Schengen Area is not a geographic area but rather a list of twenty-five states within a cooperative framework. In addition, there…

EU Cyber War Exercise ‘Cyber Europe 2010’ with 320 ‘incidents’ successfully concluded

The first ever, pan-European cyber security exercise “Cyber Europe 2010” ended successfully yesterday. More than 150 experts from 70 public bodies around Europe participated in the exercise. They were exposed to more than 320 incidents, or ‘injects’. The exercise was a first, key step for strengthening Europe’s cyber defense. The key challenge now is for the Member…

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