Civil ID is generally thought of as the use of biometrics to identify or verify the identity of individuals when interacting with governments. Examples of this could be for the purposes of document issuance, border management, voter registration or employment background checks. This page brings you all the latest news, press releases and information on this sector.
The UK’s Border Agency has confirmed it is scrapping the iris recognition gates which have been in use at some of the country’s main airports since 2004.
A civil liberties group in Israel has filed a petition to Israel's High Court of Justice seeking to annul a law that would establish a governmental biometric database and to cancel the database’s two-year pilot program.
3M Cogent's biometric access control readers complete US TSA Transportation Worker Identification Credential Initial Capability Evaluation ICE assessment.
Smartmatic's automated biometric voting system used in Venezuela’s recent candidate selection elections.
Here is an in-depth overview of how well biometric technology is performing in India's UID project. And, more crucially, it explains why performance is so good?
Governments investing taxpayers’ hard-earned money in automated border control (ABC) systems will experience false economies by cutting corners in enrolment.
Policy considerations when implementing biometric enhanced, chip-based passports.
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