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  • US: Texas: Can smart cards, biometric scans and the cloud keep dirty data out of health IT systems?

    In Harris County Texas, there are more than 69,000 pairs of people who share the same names and birth dates, according to entrepreneur David Batchelor. That’s the kind of thing that’s causing so much “dirty data” in hospitals’ medical records systems.

    “Right now there’s no way for an individual registration clerk to know that it is you that they’re admitting and that they got the right you,” said Batchelor, who five years ago started a health IT company called LifeMed ID. “There are standards (for patient registration), but there’s no way to audit whether those standards are adopted.”

  • USA: Access controlled

    The nuptials are set for Oct. 27, 2006. That's the day by which every agency in the U.S. government is supposed to be issuing smart cards that will marry physical access control and logical access control. The plan, mandated by Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD 12), is that all 5 million-plus federal employees and contractors eventually be given a common identification card that can be used anywhere and everywhere. At the front door of the federal building where the employee works. With single sign-on to computer systems. As part of three-factor authentication involving biometrics. On visits to headquarters or neighboring agencies.

  • USA: Better Privacy Protection Starts With Smart Cards

    Smart Cards in eGovernment Conference -- The Smart Card Alliance believes that protection of individual privacy is a critical goal for any identity management system. As part of its ongoing active approach to helping organizations and individuals understand how to balance both privacy and security in this complex arena, the Alliance announced the availability of a new briefing document, Identity Management Systems, Smart Cards and Privacy. The announcement came today as government and smart card industry leaders gathered for an event focusing on new federal government identity and credentialing initiatives at the Smart Card Alliance 4th Annual Smart Cards in eGovernment Conference and Exhibition, being held from March 9th through 11th, 2005 at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, D.C.

  • USA: BIG DEAL: DOD puts millions of smart cards in play

    Common Access Card leads the way toward a new deal for smart-card use

    The Defense Department has about 2.4 million Common Access Cards in use and is issuing about 10,000 more daily.

  • USA: California: San Francisco Transit to Scrap Paper Passes, Replace With Smart Cards

    San Francisco's largest public transportation agency -- the Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) -- will start phasing out paper passes this summer and turn to plastic smart cards.

    The cards -- currently known as TransLink, but will be renamed next week to Clipper -- automatically track and grant a rider's transfers and applicable discounts, according to a TransLink frequently asked questionspage on the subject.

  • USA: Controversial new ID badge: Privacy concerns worry employees

    In October, agencies plan to start issuing millions of new identification cards that will let managers track employees’ movements and activities — and put some cardholders at risk of losing their jobs, critics say.

    “There’s a lot of potential for misuse of this card,” said Pam Dixon, executive director of the World Privacy Forum, a nonprofit group concerned with technology’s impact on privacy.

  • USA: Critics wary about biometric smart cards

    Opponents worry about job loss and invasions of privacy

    Federal workers and privacy advocates are worried about a presidential directive requiring all federal employees and contractors to carry biometric smart cards to access federal buildings and computer systems.

  • USA: Federal Ruling Gives States Power to Set Higher Standards for REAL ID Driver's License

    In its final ruling on minimum security standards for state-issued driver's licenses and identification cards last week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security left the door open for states to decide for themselves if they want to set higher standards for secure REAL ID driver's licenses and e-government services.

    "Imagine the impact a state could have on protecting citizens' identities and improving government services if every driver's license they issued was capable of strongly authenticating online and in-person transactions," said Randy Vanderhoof, executive director of the Smart Card Alliance. "That opportunity is before states now as they define their REAL ID plan to comply with the federal standard, which includes only minimum technology requirements since it faced significant opposition from some states due to costs."

  • USA: First responders to get biometric IDs

    About 200,000 first responders in the Washington region will be issued biometric smart card IDs under a new program to be deployed by the Homeland Security Department, in partnership with state and local agencies in the Washington region, Lee Holcomb, DHS chief technology officer, said today.

    The initiative will involve police, fire and emergency response agencies in the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, Holcomb said at a forum on interoperability at the FOSE trade show in Washington.

  • USA: GAO: Smart-card growth continues

    Government usage of smart cards appears to be growing, despite a number of discontinued pilot programs, according to a report released by the Government Accountability Office yesterday.

    A House subcommittee requested the report, “Federal Agencies Continue to Invest in Smart Card Technology.”

  • USA: Government Cites Policies and Standards Behind Broader Use of Smart Cards

    The United States government is today making broad use of smart card technology and is headed toward a single smart card identity credential for all federal employees. To ensure these smart IDs work across all of the government, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) established a new committee, the Federal Identity and Credential Committee (FICC), one of the many policy and standards topics discussed at the Smart Card Alliance Government Conference and Expo held last week in Arlington, VA.

  • USA: Government releases guidelines for governmentwide smart cards

    The Federal Identity and Credentialing Committee has released guidelines for developing interoperable federal identification systems based on smart cards.

    The government has adopted a policy for establishing a common Federal ID Card, which could be used for both physical and logical access control. Individual agencies would issue and manage the cards, but the cards would interoperable across agencies.

  • USA: Government smart-card specs almost ready

    On Monday, the Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board will unveil its revised specifications for a governmentwide personal identity verification card.

    “The board is working feverishly on the formats,” said Curt Barker, co-chairman of the PIV project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The board’s report is due Friday, he said.

  • USA: Government will benefit from critical mass in smart ID cards

    With more than 10 million Common Access Cards issued and currently in the hands of 3.4 million DOD personnel and contractors, the Defense Department has learned how to issue and make use of smart ID cards.

    Mary Dixon, director of the Defense Manpower Data Center, responsible for issuing all of those cards, now wants to see agencies begin issuing the civilian CAC counterpart, the interoperable Personal Identity Verification cards.

  • USA: GSA wants specifics on smart cards, fingerprint biometrics

    The General Services Administration has released a request for information to figure out when 128k smart cards will be available to the government and what type of fingerprint biometrics is best.

    The agency is trying to collect information to help the Office of Management and Budget finalize requirements for the federal identity card called for in Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12.

  • USA: GSA’s Managed Services Office begins smart-card enrollment

    The General Services Administration today began registering employees so they can receive new identity cards under Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12, a GSA spokesman said.

    Under HSPD-12, agencies must have the ability to issue smart cards by Oct. 27.

  • USA: L.A. county awards transit smart-card deal

    The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has tapped Affiliated Computer Services Inc. of Dallas to deploy a smart-card system for transit riders.

    The five-year, $31.5 million contract has a pair of two-year options that could raise its overall value to $60 million.

    Under the contract, ACS of Dallas will build and operate a regional service center to administer the Regional Transit Access Pass program. The company will furnish an array of services, including cardholder registration, card inventory and distribution, and point-of-sale network management.

  • USA: Revised draft smart-card specs expected by March

    The Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board is reworking the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s draft standard for governmentwide identification cards.

    The board will revise NIST Special Publication 800-73 as well as the proposed Federal Information Processing Standard 201 based on it. The goal is to accommodate agencies’ existing personal identity verification (PIV) cards, said NIST’s Curt Barker, co-chairman of the PIV project.

  • USA: Smart cards: A step ahead, or a step backward?

    Some suggest using DOD's existing program

    A set of new policies, standards and acquisitions designed to get interoperable smart cards into the pockets of federal employees and contractors could have just the opposite effect, according to some industry insiders.

  • USA: Smart ID cards to go to first responders in Washington

    Starting in January 2006, about 200,000 first responders in the Washington metropolitan area will receive biometric smart card IDs that will allow secure cooperation at sites where federal as well as state and local first responders are called in.

    The First Responder Partnership Initiative includes emergency personnel from the city of Washington, Montgomery and Prince George’s counties in Maryland, and Arlington, Fairfax and Prince William counties in Virginia.

    Officials with the initiative said they want the program to serve as a model for other regions to enhance cooperation and efficiency between state and local first responders and their federal counterparts.

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