All Things Identification News

2010-03-19T07:20:00.001-04:00

Senators push Obama for biometric national ID card

CNETby Declan McCullagh Two US senators met with President Obama on Thursday to push for a national ID card with biometric information such as a fingerprint, ...

2010-03-16T18:47:00.001-04:00

Datacard Group Showcases Financial Instant Issuance Systems at ...Business Wire (press release)The Datacard FP65i financial card printer is a cost-effective option giving ... leading brand of secure ID and card personalization solutions. www.datacard.com.

2010-03-11T07:11:00.001-05:00

National ID Card Being Considered By Senators

Big Government (blog)There is a provision in the draft bill to force all Americans to possess a biometric ID card. Sources on Capitol Hill confirm to Big Government that the ...

2010-02-17T16:27:00.000-05:00

KYOCERA Develops World's Fastest Thermal Printhead for Card Printers

StreetInsider.com (subscription)... thermal printhead for desktop card printers used to print onto rigid materials such as ID ... print quality required in the desktop card printer market. ...

2009-11-25T07:14:00.001-05:00

Manitoba ID cards $1700 each: Tories

Winnipeg Free PressConservative Leader Hugh mcfadyen said Monday that few Manitobans have bothered to buy the enhanced ID card, introduced this year, at a cost to Manitoba ...

2009-11-11T07:10:00.000-05:00

CARTES & IDentification 2009 Exhibitor Profiles

TMCnet - USAOur secure ID and card personalization solutions are used to issue millions of financial cards ... As a market leader in the global color printer market, ...

2009-03-02T07:21:00.002-05:00

Infrastructure, ID cards are concerns for portsMiamiHerald.com - Miami,FL,USAAlso on the agenda is to have language repealed that would require Florida port workers to have a separate state ID card, when they already must carry a ...See all stories on this topic
Nashville diners swipe own credit cards to avert ID theftThe Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA"But I would be paranoid if I thought about it every time I use my credit card. " ... I know identity theft is a big issue in this country, but I have not ...See all stories on this topic
ID CARD £33M WINDFALLMirror.co.uk - London,UKBy James Lyons 2/03/2009 Fines of up to £1000 will be slapped on anyone who loses their identity card and fails to report it within a month, it was revealed ...See all stories on this topic
Japan introduces ID cards to sniff out illegal immigrantsFutureGov Magazine - Singapore,Singapore... card for all foreigners staying in Japan for more than 90 days—will be abolished, and foreigners will instead use the new cards as identification. ...See all stories on this topic

Examiner.com Wanna become an instant travel agent? 12 questions to askExaminer.com - USAIn the meantime, while waiting for customers to arrive - they can access Fam Trips and show their ID Card to Disney World and get in free. ...See all stories on this topic
Thousands of social security cards issued on Saipan sold to ...Saipan Tribune - Saipan,Northern Mariana Islands,Micronesia10, 2008, approximately 16666 Illinois driver's licenses and identification cards were issued to individuals using social security numbers with a “586” ...See all stories on this topic
CARD 'SHARP' SET OF I.DIOTSDaily Star - London,UKWHITEHALL boffins in charge of introducing ID cards can’t even hang on to their own security passes. They are losing them at the rate of 23 a day, ...See all stories on this topic

2009-02-25T07:35:00.001-05:00

Daily Press Officials hope new licenses will reduce counterfeitingDaily Press - Newport News,VA,USAHampton Roads drivers will see the updated licenses and ID cards beginning in June. Instead of leaving the DMV office with their new license, drivers will ...See all stories on this topic
DEPTFORD: Campaigners protest against Government ID card schemeThis is Local London - UKCAMPAIGNERS protested against Government plans to introduce compulsory ID cards by burning a giant card in a Deptford car park. ...See all stories on this topic

Daily Press DMV to start issuing new licenses and ID cardsDaily Press - Newport News,VA,USAStarting in March, customer service centers around the state will begin issuing new licenses and identification cards with black-and-white photographs and ...See all stories on this topic
ID cards, cameras, border controls - everything is on recordguardian.co.uk - UKThe Home Office says it will "transform our border control" by gathering information on all travellers entering or leaving the country by air, sea or rail. ...See all stories on this topic
Real ID plan advancesSan Francisco Chronicle - CA, USAHe added the IDs make identity theft more difficult. Nolan also said there is a lot of misinformation about the new identification cards. ...See all stories on this topic
Agent Urges Changes in Host Policy, CLIA IATAN ID CardsTravel Agent - New York,NY,USACLIA should eliminate the extra photo ID cards afforded to their member agencies. * The word "insolvency" should be spelled out and applied to those hosts ...See all stories on this topic
Alibaug fishermen to get biometric smart ID cardsTimes of India - India... taluka will be among the first few Indians to get the hi-tech biometric Multi-purpose National Identity Cards (MNIC), popularly known as smart cards. ...See all stories on this topic
Committee rejects tribal identification card billNews from Indian Country - Hayward,WI,USAA House committee rejected a bill aimed at making tribal membership cards valid forms of identification. HB1296 would have made a tribal identification card ...See all stories on this topic
'Make acceptance of PASS ID cards mandatory'Morning Advertiser - UK“CitizenCard is the biggest ID card scheme in the country and having the PASS hologram on the cards makes them the most difficult to counterfeit," said ...See all stories on this topic
OGC loses FOI ID Cards battle - does it care?ComputerWeekly.com - UKThe BBC reports that "ministers have been ordered to publish two reviews into the controversial ID Cards scheme after a four-year Freedom of Information ...See all stories on this topic

2008-11-27T09:04:00.000-05:00

Colusa considers medical pot ID cardsAppeal-Democrat - Marysville,CA,USAYuba County earlier this year approved a program to issue medical marijuana ID cards. County Counsel Dan Montgomery previously told the board it was ...See all stories on this topic
CBS 11 News Uncovers Fake ID Operation In DallasCBS 11 - Dallas,TX,USAHe asked about getting a Texas ID card and was directed to "El Tio." The employee was then taken across the street to a boot store to have his picture taken ...See all stories on this topic

Politics.co.uk Applications open for first ID cardsPolitics.co.uk - London,UKThe first ID cards will be issued to those making applications to extend their stay as a student or a spouse and will initially start in Croydon. ...See all stories on this topic
ID card to replace health cardGulfNews - Dubai,United Arab EmiratesBy Nina Muslim, Staff Reporter Dubai: The Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday that the new Identity Card can replace the Health Card to obtain ...See all stories on this topic
Britain begins ID card planPittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USALONDON -- The British government began its identity card program for foreign nationals yesterday -- six years after heated debate over whether the costly ...See all stories on this topic
UK government launches first ID cardsIT World Canada Blogs - Scarborough,Ontario,CanadaBut the ID card scheme has been significantly revised since its inception. Plans by the Home Office to make ID cards compulsory for all 200000 airside ...See all stories on this topic

2008-11-12T07:13:00.002-05:00

Health care attorney: ID theft can be a killerJournal Record (subscription) - Oklahoma City,OK,USA“I’ve heard that more insurers are going to now, somehow, start putting pictures on their ID cards,” Loomis said. “But right now they don’t, so health care ...See all stories on this topic
British biometric ID card system vulnerable to cloningSecurity Park - Winkfield,England,UKI’ve been concerned about such an extension of ID card use since they were very first announced.” “The big concern with ID verification is impersonation. ...See all stories on this topic
Govt nod for universal ID cardThe Statesman - Kolkata,India... the setting up of a UID (Unique Identification) Authority that would facilitate the process of giving multipurpose identity cards to all citizens. ...See all stories on this topic

2008-08-15T07:13:00.001-04:00

Ringdale Introduces New ID Card Production Software

IT News Online - Mumbai,Maharashtra,IndiaThis is useful for larger organizations that may collect the data centrally and print ID cards in one or more other locations. A cardholder's information is ...

2008-08-06T07:09:00.001-04:00

ID card prototype contract awarded

Data quality news - London,UKThe prospect of a biometric ID card system in the UK has taken another step towards becoming reality after French defence contractor Thales was awarded an ...

2008-07-30T07:11:00.000-04:00

CLIA Introduces New CLIA ID Card Rules

Travel Agent - New York,NY,USACruise Lines International Association (CLIA) has announced that travel agent qualifications for the official CLIA ID Card in 2009 will include enrollment ...

CGA provides gymnasts' ID cards to prove their Olympic eligibility

Xinhua - ChinaBy Sportswriter Chen Yu BEIJING, July 29 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese Gymnastics Association (CGA) on Tuesday provided copies of the ID cards and passports of ...

2008-06-25T08:24:00.001-04:00

ID card bid raises US security concern

Financial Times - London,England,UKBy Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington A leading US maker of identification cards has raised national security concerns after French defence electronics ...

2008-06-23T07:21:00.000-04:00

Experts: Fingerprint errors may harm ID cards

ZDNet UK - UKExperts have warned that the ID-card scheme risks being derailed by mistakes in fingerprint matches. The £4.4bn National Identity Scheme's (NIS's) reliance ...

2008-06-06T07:00:00.002-04:00

New voter ID cards issued

Cay Compass - Grand Cayman,Cayman IslandsElection office workers hit Hurley’s Supermarket Saturday in their drive to sign up voters for new voter identification cards. The election office’s Eldon

42-day detention: the threat to our liberty

Times Online - UKNor will they cut illegal immigration, since asylum-seekers have been obliged to carry ID cards for nearly eight years. Nor will they have any real impact ...

Bell ID uses latest GlobalPlatform card spec

SecureIDNews (press release) - Tallahassee,FL,USABell ID’s ANDiS4FIPS201 is an electronic card personalization product used to generate and load the PIV technology on government issued ID cards.

So, what are ID cards for?

Principia - Manchester,UKDaniel Dresner questions whether the Government has got the business case for ID cards right. Governments and administrations are transient but however ...

ID card critics query competitiveness of bidding process

Computing - London,UKLast month’s announcement that all five remaining suppliers bidding for £2bn-worth of contracts for the government’s ID card programme have gone through to ...

Ont. to develop enhanced photo ID for cross-border travel

Canoe.ca - Toronto,Ontario,CanadaBy THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - Ontario wants to offer enhanced photo identification cards as an alternative to a passport for non-drivers when they travel ...

2008-05-16T08:24:00.000-04:00

Jolly Technologies to Show Lobby Track 4.0 and ID Flow 4.0 at ...

PR-USA.net (press release) - Varna,BulgariaEagle Technologies Ltd remains the UK's only "trade only" multi-brand desktop card printer product distributor providing all leading card printer and ...

2008-04-23T07:11:00.001-04:00

Home Office aims to drive down cost of ID cards

ZDNet UK - UKHome Office minister Meg Hillier has said the government wants industry to help drive down the cost of ID cards to the public. ...

National ID Cards for Muslims in Arakan State

Narinjara News - Dhaka,BangladeshThe Burmese military government used to issue white national ID cards to Muslims in Sittwe, but many Muslims have refused to accept them because the cards ...

2008-03-31T07:13:00.001-04:00

Whose responsibility is the question of identification now?

Scotsman - United KingdomWith ID cards there are a number of legal questions that arise for a Scottish Government that may wish to oppose the introduction of such a scheme. ...

2008-03-26T07:05:00.001-04:00

Tagged High School IDs Improve Student Flow, Enforce Rules

RFID Journal - Melville,NY,USABy Mary Catherine O'Connor March 25, 2008—A Chicago-area high school has begun issuing RFID-enabled identity cards. According to staff members, ...

90% of people don't trust government with personal data

ComputerWeekly.com - UKEven so, 41% said they favoured ID cards, 40% were against and 19% were undecided. Of those who were against or undecided about ID cards, 93% said it was ...

New Internet Service Expedites State ID Card Applications

Centre Daily Times - Centre,PA,USA

2008-02-13T11:02:00.000-05:00

Smart card ID to be launched soon
Independent Online - Cape Town,South AfricaThis would also reduce ID fraud and improve turnaround time for processing documents, such as IDs and passports. A printing machine for the new passports ...

State Of The Art Printers For Enhanced Security
Bru Direct - Brunei DarussalamThe cutting-edge card printers are products of Digital Identification Solutions Group, a global provider of advanced identification solutions with a ...

2008-02-03T08:11:00.000-05:00

Datacard Group Provides Secure ID System for Super Bowl First ...

Centre Daily Times - Centre,PA,USADatacard(R) CP80 card printers with IDCentre(TM) Silver identification software and Photo Pointe(TM) solution were used to create the credentials. ...

2008-02-02T08:14:00.001-05:00

OnLine Distribution Hosts Channel Event with Key Vendors

MySolutionInfo (press release) - Beirut,Beirut,LebanonHID Identity and Zebra Technologies will extend their expertise in ID card printing solutions - a growing demand seen in the Middle East region. ...

2008-01-05T19:02:00.001-05:00

Companies roll out lower cost ID card printers with higher end ...

CR80News - Tallahassee,FL,USAMajor printer manufacturers including Datacard, Digital ID, Evolis, Fargo, and Magicard are all addressing this new sector with high function, ...

2008-01-03T06:26:00.001-05:00

Organizations adding more security to ID cards with secure ...

SecureIDNews (press release) - Tallahassee,FL,USAAll this is made possible by modern printing technology, which is often available from even the most moderately priced card printers. ...