Identity Cards

Biometrics and Smart Cards in Identity Management

The introduction of the electronic passport by governments around the world marks a major step in the use of biometrics. In fact, the electronic passport, or e-passport for short, combines the use of three important technologies for identification: biometrics, smartcards and radio frequency identification (RFID). Smartcards – increasingly often RFID-enabled – are already commonplace in our ever...

Identity cards help patients identify their doctors

Patients admitted to hospital are immediately overloaded with information from staff in A&E, to subsequent acute medical and inpatient wards. Essential details are conveyed to patients at each step, including diagnosis, management and identification of various team members involved in their care. An initial audit within our South London hospital revealed only one third of patients admitted onto...

Compulsion and Attitudes to Identity Cards in the United Kingdom

• An Identity Card issued alongside a passport without an opt-out is seen as significantly more compulsory than an opt-out system. • Providing an opt-out to the Identity (ID) Card process during application increases support for ID Cards, but not significantly, and reduces the certainty of those opposed to ID Cards. • Distrust in the UK Government, alongside the perceived privacy threat of ID C...

Can Smart Cards Reduce Payments Fraud and Identity Theft?

In the United States, when a consumer presents a payment to a merchant, the merchant typically makes a request for authorization before accepting the payment. Personal information, such as an account number, address, or telephone number, is often enough to initiate a payment. A serious weakness of this system is that criminals who obtain the correct personal information can impersonate an hones...

Security in Telemedicine – Certificates and Digital Identity Cards *