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How the Defense Department is using biometrics

Monday, February 1, 2010
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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.  

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Axway, a business interaction networks company that manages digital business interactions, has partnered with MaxID, a developer of biometric and other identity solutions, to create a new handheld mobile device designed for use in biometric authentication.

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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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Governments and organizations are wanting more than one technology on a credential, says Stephen Price-Francis, vice president of marketing at LaserCard. The company was at the Smart Card Alliance conference talking about multi-technology IDs and the different technology it’s putting in a card.

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LaserCard Corp. announced receipt of a follow-on order for approximately $2.7 million of optical security media cards to be issued under the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Permanent Resident Card program. Deliveries of the cards are scheduled to concluded by the end of the year

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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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