A trial scheme called miSense where air passengers flying to and from London Heathrow with Cathay Pacific and Emirates are to be fingerprinted is to be introduced inside weeks.  The scheme, similar to fingerprinting schemes in US airports, will be voluntary.
Scanners placed in boarding lounges will allow passengers participating in the miSense scheme to have […]

Authentication of personal identification has been pushed to the forefront of politics recently, but most of the debate has been surrounding the issuance of ID cards and RFID tagging.  However, these are not the only ways to ascertain identity as shown by a new finger vein scanning system developed in tandem by Hitachi and Sumitomo […]

7th RFID Networking Forum
RFID’s presence is getting to the point where seminars, workshops, conferences are appearing all over the world. Recently, the 7th RFID Networking Forum took place in London, UK to discuss the use of radio frequency technology in various sectors, and to focus on prospective users. Attendees included solution providers, analysts, venture capitalists […]

If you live in or have driven in and around either Toronto, Canada, or Atlanta, Georgia, USA, you know how awful traffic is. In Toronto, it take can some out-of-town commuters two hours or more to get to work in the morning, and longer to get home on bad days. And that’s by car. Atlanta […]

FinnAir is using RFID in an innovative way: managing the assignment of employee tasks. Employees use an RFID-enabled Nokia 51401 phone to read off their tasks from one of various locations hosting RFID tags. Their work details are transmitted to their phones, which can then view on their screens. The solution uses IBM’s WebSphere middleware […]

First cash wasn’t fast enough, too much change to count out.  Then credit cards were too slow, too much time spent signing or  entering your PIN.  Now we’ve got biometric fingerprint payments, just scan and go.
Introduced by Citibank in Singapore, where everything must happen at light speed, the new biometric fingerprint payment system is designed […]

Governments all over the world are moving towards ID cards and RFID-enabled passports to combat ID fraud, welfare fraud and global terrorism.  To be honest I am sceptical as to how a card will actually be able to stop a terror attack because an active cell will either be totally underground or assimilated into society […]

Finextra reports that a group called the Smart Card Alliance (SCA) is refuting the findings of two researchers studying RFID-enabled contactless credit cards recently. [Note: The Finextra article does not have a link, and they refer to the Smart Card Assocation, which I believe is an error. Here is a link to what appears to […]

A New York Times piece earlier this week suggests that identity thieves might be found more easily by looking to the victim’s family members, that they in fact might be the thief. The culprits might be spurned relatives, ex-spouses, or anyone in the immediate family with motivation and access. In the case of Eric Wagenhauser, […]

Certicom and Texas Instruments are working on a means of storing encrypted authentication information on RFID chips. The chips are only 160 bits and use an ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) scheme which is as secure as a 1024-bit RSA (Rivest Shamir Adleman) public encryption key. The reduction in bit space is necessary, as most RFID […]