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The market for smart cards, secure ICs, inlays, (biometric) data capture, card personalization, printing and issuance in government, healthcare, and citizen ID will reach a cumulative value of $72 billion by 2016. The largest proportion of revenues will be from the deployment of national ID cards and e-passports. 

The employment of higher-value applications, in particular [...]

Two news stories from Identive today that have a Japanese flavour in common. First up is the news that Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. and Identive Group, Inc. are to jointly develop a new ID card reader that allows Japanese merchants, banks and others to read any of the diverse types of electronic identity credentials in [...]

Travel documents are for terrorists just as important as weapons, according to the key finding from the 9/11 Commission Report. This is the reason border control systems based on biometric applications have become the solution of choice in identifying potential threats. There is also considerable emphasis on the identification of immigrants using e-Passports and e-Visas [...]