Identity, Security, Payments, Biometrics, Smart Cards and Authentication News

Dulles, Reagan and Oakland go Clear

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Verified Identity Pass Inc., New York, will provide registered traveler services to Oakland International Airport, Dulles International and Reagan National Airports. Verified Identity Pass, operator of Clear the card, is approved by the Transportation Security Administration to provide registered traveler services.

The Oakland Board of Port Commissioners approved an ordinance selecting Clear to provide express passenger security lane services at the airport. The ordinance enables the airport to move forward with allocating space to Clear at the passenger screening checkpoints in Terminals 1 and 2 so that it can open registered traveler enrollment stations next month and express lanes soon after.

Enrollment is already available in the Washington area. Clear enrollment stations are already operating at the American Express Travel Office at 15th and K Streets and in the Congressional Federal Credit Union in the Longworth House Office Building. Additional stations will be installed by early February at the airports and at area hotels. All airlines operating from the Washington-area airports, and their passengers, will be able to use Clear’s fast pass lanes within weeks. Verified Identity Pass already has signed up more than 2,000 DC-area residents at flyclear.com.

Applicants start their enrollment via Clear’s Web site. The process is completed at the airports enrollment station where their photograph, fingerprints and iris images are captured, and two pieces of approved government-issued identification, such as a driver’s license and passport, are verified. An annual cost of $100, plus a $28 TSA pre-screening fee, is charged once the federal government approves an applicant. [end] 

Parkmobile USA has announced that its mobile payments solution is now available on all parking meters throughout Oakland, Calif.

Oakland drivers can now pay for parking with their mobile phone using the Parkmobile app on iPhone, Android, Windows 7, and Blackberry smart phones anywhere in the city. Users can also pay for parking by tapping their NFC phone against a Parkmobile NFC-enabled sticker on the meter.

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U.S. Bank and Oakland Community College, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., have launched a combined campus ID and prepaid MasterCard program for the school’s 78,000 students and 788 staff members.

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Calgary, Alberta is pushing forward with the anticipated summer launch of a new smart card payment system for public transit, according to the Calgary Herald.

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New Jersey Transit’s use of NFC payments with Google Wallet has been an “overwhelming and resounding success,” according to NJ Transit spokesman John Durson.

Introduced on the NJ Transit network in October 2011, Google Wallet enables riders to purchase tickets with the tap of an NFC-enabled phone at New York Penn Station, Newark Liberty Airport’s rail station and on 7 city bus lines.

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British journal Benchmark Magazine, a monthly publication about security technology, found after testing a variety of fingerprint readers, that those using multispectral imaging provide more consistent readings than those relying on optical scans only.

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PATCO, the high speed rail line that runs between Philadelphia and Camden County, N.J., is preparing to shift into Phase Two of its open payment trial.

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