This video is a real find: It is 47 minutes long and the most comprehensive account of the UID program we have come across to date. In an April 23rd, 2012 plenary to the NYU Stern UC Class of 2015, Professor Arun Sundararajan describes India’s fascinating digital identity initiative, shares video clips of his conversations [...]

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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 [...]

DigitalPersona, Inc., a global provider of authentication and access management solutions, announced the company’s U.are.U® 5100 series of fingerprint readers and modules has achieved Personal Identity Verification (PIV) certification. The U.are.U 5100 series makes high-efficiency, standards-compliant biometrics practical for handheld ID terminals and is designed to support a growing number of Civil ID applications such [...]