Still wondering what is really happening with the REAL ID legislation? In a report by Washington Technology, it is stated that most of the objection to the ID could be overcome if funding for the card was more available. It is expected to cost $11 billion to introduce the REAL ID over five years, and most of that burden would fall back to the states. Other concerns like privacy issues, still need to be worked out, and it will almost be impossible to get everyone to agree with one card. ![[end]](/resources/bullet/archive-4.gif)
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Two Texas police departments have successfully used live fingerprint scans to serve a warrant in conjunction with a 15-year-old murder case. The Carrollton and Lewisville, Tex. police departments used Plano-based Mentalix Inc.’s Submit live scan system to nab the suspect, Danny Elenilson Osorio. Lewisville police officers stopped Osorio in March on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Osorio gave a fake name and birth date, and police arrested him and took him to the Lewisville jail. read more »Three University of California, Riverside scholars have received a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to launch a program that will use facial recognition software to identify unknown subjects in portrait art. read more »dwinQ announced that with its RFID and mobile technologies the company has achieved Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer status and has completed a deep integration into the Facebook API & Platform. read more »Nigeria’s National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) announced on Wednesday at the 4th West Africa Information Communications Technology Congress 2012 that more than 100 million Nigerians lacked official identification in the country’s national identity database. read more »With many national governments and businesses such as airports and hotels moving toward e-passports and biometric identification, CIA agents and other country covert ops may have problems moving around the world under assumed identities, reports Gizmodo. read more »In an effort to streamline tenant control of visitor access at its commercial real estate properties in Manhattan, Trinity Real Estate has installed HID Global’s EasyLobby Secure Visitor Management (SVM) software. read more » |
