Card Technology articles from September 2003

Card Technology archives from September 2003

The Politics Of National ID Cards.
September 1, 2003... Many governments are investigating smart cards and biometrics for use in national ID cards. But moving forward means persuading an often-wary citizenry to accept these new IDs. It's an open question what it will take to win the necessary...

Target Pilots Chip-Based Coupons.(consumer loyalty program for smart card users)
September 1, 2003... Target Corp. finally, albeit quietly, launched the pilot of the much-anticipated electronic coupon portion of its Target Visa smart card consumer loyalty program in late July. The scheme, which was first announced in 2001, allows Target Visa...

SIM Rebound Continues.(subscriber identity module cards)(Industry Overview)
September 1, 2003... Major smart card vendors reported their subscriber identity module card shipments again increased during the second quarter of 2003, although currency fluctuations and sustained weak pricing didn't make for rousing financial results. ...

SIM Shipments Rise.(subscriber identity modules)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
September 1, 2003... Vendor SIMs Shipped (millions units) (1st half 2003) (1st half 2002) % change Gemplus 77.7 61.4 26.5 Oberthur 28.5 18.3 55.7 ...

U.S. Seeks To Centralize Authentication Policy.
September 1, 2003... U.S. federal government agencies are continuing to beef up security on their computer networks, using such technologies as public key infrastructure, smart cards and biometrics. A few agencies, most notably, the Department of Defense, have...

Card Technology Calendar.(Calendar)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 7-9: Information Security Solutions Europe-Vienna Organized by EEMA For more information, contact Ruth Cattell at: +44 1386 793 028 Fax: +44 1386 793 268 ruth.cattelleema.org www.eema.org/isse Oct. 30-31: ID...

Regional News.
September 1, 2003... Asia/Pacific Thailand To Issue Java-based National ID Card: The Thai government will issue a multiapplication national ID card to citizens starting as early as November of this year, the Bangkok Post reported last month. The project is an...

New Passport Technology-Will It Arrive In Time?(biometric-based passports)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 26, 2004 is a date officials in central passport bureaus in European capitals and elsewhere are well acquainted with. That's the date when key provisions of the U.S. Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act, passed last year...

At Last, PKI Gets Down To Work.(public key infrastructure)
September 1, 2003... There has been talk for years about combining smart cards and PKI to secure electronic transactions, but relatively little action. Now the UK's banking clearinghouse is giving the concept a big lift. One of Europe's largest investments in...

A Smart Way To Finance Car Rental Fleets.
September 1, 2003... Lombard, the car-leasing finance arm of Royal Bank of Scotland, uses smart card-based digital certificates issued by RBS's TrustAssured PKI service to set up finance deals with vehicle rental companies such as SixtKenning and A+C Rentals. ...

Ready For The Big Leagues.
September 1, 2003... Biometrics is a young technology being asked to grow up fast. Governments want to identify millions of passport, visa and ID cardholders using digitized faces, fingerprints or iris patterns. Is biometrics accurate enough? Which technologies and...

Glossary of Terms.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... False rejection rate The probability that a system will mistakenly reject a legitimately enrolled user's biometric. False acceptance rate The probability that a system will mistakenly accept a non-enrolled user's biometric. ...

Comparing Biometric Technologies.
September 1, 2003... Characteristic Face Fingerprint Iris False rejection rate 3.3%-70% 0.2%-36% 1.9%-6% False acceptance rate 0.3%-5% 0%-8% Less than 1% Failure to enroll rate 0% 2%-5% 0.5% Source: U.S....

Transit Rolls; Multiapplication Still At The Gate.
September 1, 2003... Transit operators are putting chip cards into the pockets of millions of consumers around the world for electronic ticketing. But as the cards leave the station, few additional applications are on board. From St. Petersburg to Sao Paulo,...

Dutch Pride And The Interoperability Issue.
September 1, 2003... When major transit agencies in the Netherlands roll out their chip-based fare collection system starting next year, they expect to be able to boast of two world firsts. For one, it promises to be the first transit electronic ticketing...

A Global Look at Contactless Transit Ticketing.
September 1, 2003... (part 1 of 4) PLACE PROJECT STATUS ASIA-PACIFIC 1 Bangkok, Thailand Launch planned 2004 2 Beijing Pilot 3 Changsha, China ...