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Francis Tuffy

1 Aug. 2023

3 min read

Highlights from Identity Week, Amsterdam

This year, Identity Week Europe moved its base from its traditional home of the ExCel Centre in London to RAI in Amsterdam. In addition to over 200 exhibitors, 3,000 attendees and 71 start-ups from 93 countries there was a full programme of conference presentations.

Digital Identity Events

Alan Hodgson

1 Aug. 2023

5 min read

Who Will Own Identity Verification?

One of the issues that was discussed at the recent Optical and Digital Document Security (ODDS) conference in Prague was the future of personal identity.

Digital Identity

Francis Tuffy

1 Aug. 2023

4 min read

Costa Rica Passport Makes Journey from MRP to ePassport

In 2021, as Costa Rica reached the 200-year anniversary of independence from Spain and at a time when countries around the world were struggling with the effects of COVID, the country took the bold move to upgrade its travel document from machine-readable to a fully compliant biometric passport.

Passports

Francis Tuffy

1 Aug. 2023

2 min read

US Government Overreached in Identity Theft Case

The US Supreme Court has limited the reach of the federal Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act, rebuffing the Biden administration’s efforts to prosecute a man already convicted of Medicaid fraud with a separate charge of aggravated identity theft arising out of the same fraud case.

Digital Identity

Francis Tuffy

1 Aug. 2023

2 min read

New Document Issues

The Kurdistan Region of Iraq’s new ePassport was issued on 16 July at a ceremony in the regional capital of Erbil.

ID Cards Passports

Francis Tuffy

1 Aug. 2023

2 min read

Is Low-Price Evaluation Secure?

In this commentary piece, government ID procurement processes come under scrutiny, and we question whether the lowest price solution is always the best value for money?

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Francis Tuffy

1 Aug. 2023

4 min read

The Vital Importance of Proof of Health Status Interoperability

Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic response, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has recognised that there is a gap and continued need for a health status passport.

Digital Identity

Francis Tuffy

1 Aug. 2023

5 min read

News in Brief

The EU Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI) is to be made available free of charge to all 450 million citizens of the European Union (EU) in the form of a personal digital wallet stored on their mobile phone, the European Parliament and the Council of the EU have agreed.

News

Francis Tuffy

1 Aug. 2023

2 min read

TSA Defends Use of Facial Recognition – and it is Set to Increase

According to a recent article in Extreme Tech, the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has ramped up its biometric identity verification pilot by installing facial recognition systems in more airports.

Biometrics

Francis Tuffy

2 July 2023

2 min read

New Document Issues

One new document issue to report on this month, the US state of Wisconsin new driving licence and ID card.

News

Francis Tuffy

2 July 2023

5 min read

News in Brief

South Africa’s Department of Transport (DoT) announced that the country’s only driving licence card personalisation machine is back up and running after breaking down last month.

News

Francis Tuffy

2 July 2023

4 min read

Brazil Reboots its Travel Documents

In this, the first major redesign of the country’s travel document for over two decades, the Casa da Moeda do Brasil has pulled out all the stops to make the new Brazilian passport a real showstopper!

Passports

Francis Tuffy

2 July 2023

2 min read

US State of Oregon DMV ID Data Breach

The Oregon Driver and Motor Vehicles Division (DMV) of the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) recently confirmed that an estimated 3.5 million driving licences and ID cards were compromised when the agency was hacked.

Driving Licences

Francis Tuffy

2 July 2023

3 min read

Celebrating Outstanding Design and Innovation in ID and Travel Documents

The prestigious Regional ID Document of the Year Awards form part of the industry’s High Security Printing (HSP) Latin America conference.

Events

Francis Tuffy

2 July 2023

2 min read

Vision-Box Installs eGates at Ezeiza Airport

Multinational technology company, Vision-Box, has deployed its Seamless Journey Platform in the new terminal at Ezeiza, Argentina’s largest international airport by passenger numbers.

Biometrics Technical Features Travel

Francis Tuffy

2 July 2023

4 min read

HSP Latin America 2023 – Celebrating 10th Anniversary in Style

Nassau, the Bahamas was the spectacular setting for the 10th High Security Printing™ (HSP) Latin America conference, which welcomed over 240 delegates from 118 organisations and 38 countries, over half from Latin America and the Caribbean.

Events

Francis Tuffy

2 July 2023

5 min read

Company News

The Togolese Agency for Identification, ANID-TOGO, has partnered with Atos and IDEMIA to build a national biometric eID system based on the Modular Open Source Identity Platform (MOSIP).

News

Francis Tuffy

2 July 2023

3 min read

Apple on the Biometric ID Trail Again

While the tech giant, Apple, is essentially a consumer electronics firm that produces stylish smartphones, laptops, desktops and TVs, it is also a big user of biometrics to verify the identity of the user. Even more than that, it has never shied away from following other research areas that involve identity as a service.

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Francis Tuffy

2 July 2023

3 min read

What We Can Learn from Over-Reliance on Mobile-Based Authentication

The transition in the ID and secure document industry from physical to digital authentication is just one example in a wider movement across many sectors to strike a balance between convenience and security in identity verification.

Authentication

Francis Tuffy

7 June 2023

3 min read

Continuing Efforts for Greener Cards

The inaugural Cash & Payments Sustainability Forum (organised by Reconnaissance International) created the ideal venue for cash, ID and other secure document manufacturers to showcase their efforts to put our industry on a more environmentally sustainable footing.

ID Cards Technical Features

Latest News

Highlights from Identity Week, Amsterdam

Who Will Own Identity Verification?

Costa Rica Passport Makes Journey from MRP to ePassport

US Government Overreached in Identity Theft Case

New Document Issues

Is Low-Price Evaluation Secure?

The Vital Importance of Proof of Health Status Interoperability

News in Brief

TSA Defends Use of Facial Recognition – and it is Set to Increase

New Document Issues

News in Brief

Brazil Reboots its Travel Documents

US State of Oregon DMV ID Data Breach

Celebrating Outstanding Design and Innovation in ID and Travel Documents

Vision-Box Installs eGates at Ezeiza Airport

HSP Latin America 2023 – Celebrating 10th Anniversary in Style

Company News

Apple on the Biometric ID Trail Again

What We Can Learn from Over-Reliance on Mobile-Based Authentication

Continuing Efforts for Greener Cards

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