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 […]
Oberthur Technologies has successfully delivered of a turnkey eGovernment solution including an electronic national ID card and a complete ID system to the Swedish Tax Agency. Oberthur Technologies’ solution includes enrolment equipment, electronic secure document manufacturing, personalisation system, PKI¹ including certificate management and issuance and finally a Card Management System. Thanks to this strong and […]
Rob Haslam has joined HID Global as vice president of Government ID Solutions. In his new role, Mr. Haslam is responsible for the strategic development and worldwide expansion of the company’s government-to-citizen ID business. This includes extending HID Global’s reach by delivering secure ID solutions into major government ePassport and eID projects that integrate Genuine […]
Gemalto’s Sealys ID Motion smart card software dedicated to national government programs has received “Common Criteria EAL7 certification”. EAL7, or Evaluation Assurance Level 7, represents the highest level of security assurance within the international security evaluation scheme, also known as Common Criteria. By achieving this independent and government-recognized security certification, Gemalto has set a new […]
Home Affairs Minister Naledi Pandor told a media briefing in Parliament last week that the Home Affairs department would start producing smart ID cards, which have strong security features to prevent fraud and corruption. According to reports, Pandor said the old green ID book would be phased out. “We will get rid of the ID […]
After many years of discussion over the necessity of electronic ID cards, the government of Republic of Latvia adopted the relevant law in 2011, introducing a new type of personal identification document – the identity card and envisaging legal acceptance of it with the passports. The Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs (OCMA) announced the […]
The Open eCard team released the sources of the ISO/IEC 24727 based Open eCard App to provide an alternative to proprietary eID middleware solutions as well as the basis for the development of open applications in which all interested citizens can participate. In order to use national eID cards and electronic health cards in the […]
