Contactless Smart Cards, RFID, Payment, Transit & Security

Sixth Symposium and Exhibition on ICAO MRTDs, Biometrics and Security Standards

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Dates: November 1 - 4, 2010
Location: Montréal, Canada
Venue: ICAO Headquarters
URL: http://www2.icao.int/en/MRTD2/Pages/SixthMRTDSymposium.aspx

Description: Information about the event will be posted as soon as available. [end] 

National Biometric Security Project (NBSP) has announced the availability of a new update to the published and emerging biometric standards that include 17 new standards since the previous incarnation released in September 2009. The new listing of standards brings the total to 111 with an additional 95 standards outlined as emerging standards that are under consideration. Many of the standards listed were put in place to increase security, ease interoperability between different companies’ products, ease interfacing with specific technology and standards put in place to assist developers creating new technologies.  

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India’s Social Welfare Department has implemented the Beggars Personal Management System to track beggars using biometrics. This effort is to fight recent large-scale deaths and mismanagement within colonies, according to a Deccan Herald article.

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An event hosted by MasterCard Worldwide and Collis, the MasterCard EMV M/Chip Payment Solutions Symposium, was held to promote the deployment and use of the chip-based payment solutions.

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Entrust Inc., is extending its public key infrastructure technology to provide the Entrust Credentialing Service, an end-to-end hosted solution for organizations to issue unified smart card credentials. This system is tailored for enterprise, citizen or government environments that want to secure physical and logical access, virtual private networks (VPN) and other enterprise functions and capabilities.

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HJP Consulting has completed the German BSI certification process of the Extended Access Control (EAC) e-passport inspection system “Regula series 7004,” manufactured by Regula Baltija Ltd., based in Latvia. The Regula inspection system is an EAC inspection system to be certified according to the test standard BSI-TR 3105 part 5.1 “Test plan for ICAO compliant Inspection Systems with EAC 1.11.”

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Ghana’s major electronic clearing and payment system could provide enough space and communication capabilities to enable adding new purposes for removing ghost payrollers, according to a Peace FM Online article.

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