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

Things Get Back to 'Business as Usual'

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Although the hoopla of BAA’s RFID baggage-handling trial last week gained plenty of headlines, for RFID blogger David Bicknell, “aconversation with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) showed the true state of where we are with RFID.”

Hear more about his talks at ComputerWeekly.com[end] 

Personal information of 1,300 international students at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, has been accidentally released by email. The information included the students’ names, email addresses, phone numbers and student ID numbers and was sent to each of the 1,300 students advising them of a career workshop.

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The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, New York has started using a self-checkout system that makes use of RFID technology, according to a local news report. In the past, if patrons wanted to check out a book or CD, they had to wait for a librarian to do it for them.

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If you want to use a credit or debit card at College of Brockport dining halls, forget it. Until the end of the school term, it’s mostly cash only due to a security breach which affected hundreds of credit and debit cards from students, staff and faculty.

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LikeBelt from deeplocal on Vimeo.

And now for something completely different.

Pittsburgh-based design studio Deeplocal has developed an NFC-enabled belt that lets the wearer “like” things on Facebook much in the same way that a dog “likes” your leg.

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DigitalPersona released a new version of its Pro Enterprise authentication device. It now contains the ability to support a number of new authentication credentials, enabling organizations to mix and match the ways in which employees securely identify themselves to Microsoft Windows and other applications.

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The ADEVERTISING Club of New York’s 48th Annual ANDY Awards has selected dwinQ to provide a live social media experience for guests using RFID technology and the patented dwinQ platform.

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