Chase Bank U.S.A., a division of the nation's largest credit-card issuer, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., will begin offering credit cards that use radio-frequency identification technology. The technology, called "blink," will let consumers make purchases by passing RFID chip-embedded cards in front a point-of-sale terminal. Chase plans to issue millions of blink cards by the end of this year.
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Precise Biometrics AB and Gunnebo Entrance Control are showing the next generation of electronic border control with biometrics at the IFSEC trade show in Birmingham, May 16-19. Gunnebo Entrance Control and Precise Biometrics are demonstrating at this exhibition a multibiometric verification system developed on a non-exclusive basis by Precise Biometrics for use in electronic border-control applications. The system is able to read and validate the holder of the new electronic passports in accordance with standards now being introduced in many countries around the world.
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Passports in the U.S. and in other countries around the world will soon become electronic thanks to small RFID chips that will hold a traveler's identity information, visas and immunization records. While much attention has focused on the embedded chips in these "epassports," governments and their private sector partners face many daunting challenges in designing and building secure, reliable systems of this scale.
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The Pentagon is fine-tuning a $75 million biometric ID system to protect U.S. bases in Iraq, the American Forces Press Service reported Tuesday. Department of Defense officials said the state-of-the-art identification system will use biographical data, facial photographs, fingerprints and iris scans to develop ID cards that cannot be counterfeited. Work on the new biometrics-based system began in late January when then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz pushed better protection for U.S. troops in Iraq.
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