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  • Elektronische Gesundheitskarte: Der Zeitplan wackelt

    Die Bundesministerin für Gesundheit und soziale Sicherheit, Ulla Schmidt, hat für den kommenden Mittwoch die mit der Einführung der elektronischen Gesundheitskarte befassten Experten von Arztverbänden, Krankenkassen und Apothekern zu einem Krisengipfel in ihr Ministerium geladen. Das Krisentreffen ist notwendig geworden, weil sich die beteiligten Verbände bisher nicht auf eine einvernehmliche Lösung darüber verständigen konnten, welche Daten auf der Gesundheitskarte gespeichert werden sollen und welche von zentralen Servern oder einer völlig dezentral ausgestalteten Lösung geliefert werden können.

  • Elektronische Gesundheitskarte: Im Auge des Sturms

    Während ein Wirbel von Nachrichten rund um die Gesundheitskarte für Aufregung sorgt, bleiben die eigentlichen Konstrukteure der Karte gelassen. Sie liegen zwar nicht exakt im Zeitplan, doch sind sie mit den bisher erzielten Fortschritten zufrieden. Dies kann als Fazit des diesjährigen SmartCard-Forums des Fraunhofer Competence Center for Applied Security Technology (CAST) in Darmstadt gezogen werden, das sich ausschließlich mit der Gesundheitskarte befasste.

  • France, Biggest Identify Theft Victim, To Create Smart Cards To Prevent It

    France is one of the countries with the biggest incidence of identity theft, with 80,000 cases per year, according to the French Interior Ministry, in a story at net-security.org.

    Identity theft and identity fraud are terms used to refer to crimes in which someone fraudulently gets and uses another person's personal data, “typically for economic gain,” according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

  • French government votes to deploy national smart IDs

    The French National Assembly has voted on an identity protection law and plans to implement a smart identity card program to combat the growing problem with identity theft.

    The French Interior Ministry claims that there are 80,000 cases of identity theft in France annually. To lower the risk of identity theft, the government plans to move from driver’s licenses and national ID cards to an eID smart card.

  • French National ID card: A first step into the modern world, says Frost & Sullivan

    Identity theft is a growing issue in many countries with 80,000 cases per year in France alone, according to the French Interior Ministry. For this reason the French National Assembly has decided to vote on the new law on identity protection.

    The new French smart ID card is supposed to protect against identity theft and offers a new way to interact with administration services. However, to open a digital world for French citizens, the Government has to focus on smart card readers’ deployment.

  • GeldKarte mit elektronischer Signatur

    Gemplus erhielt als erster Anbieter von SmartCard-Lösungen zusätzlich zur Zulassung des Zentralen Kreditausschusses (ZKA) auch eine Zertifizierung nach dem Signaturgesetz. Damit ist die Kombination von GeldKarte und qualifizierter Signatur möglich. Diese Signaturen sind der handschriftlichen Unterschrift rechtlich weitgehend gleichgestellt. Die Lösung besteht aus dem GeldKarte-Betriebssystem SECCOS (SEcure Chip Card Operating System) und einem Chip von Infineon Technologies (Typ SLE66CX322P).

  • German labour eyes online authentication

    Germany's pensions agency and labour department will provide staff with electronic smartcards and set up a centre for verifying online transactions

    Germany's pensions administrator and labour department are implementing online authentication systems in a deal worth almost €10m (£6.7m).

  • Germany: IT-Security toolkit for smart card use

    In the light of the release of the new electronic identity (eID) cards as from November 2010, a group of selected IT companies will provide the cardholders with an IT-Security toolkit; it will contain a secure chip card reader, information about the use of the new eID and the electronic health cards, as well as assembled components made by the companies, such as access to web-based applications or antivirus software.

    €24 million were granted from the German IT Investment Programme to a list of winning IT companies in order to provide the citizens by November 2010 with an IT-Security toolkit that will facilitate and ensure a secure use of the new eID card.

  • Germany: The world’s most advanced smart ID card?

    Starting on 1st November, the German government is to roll out a new national identity card that is billed as the most advanced of its kind. The contactless smartcard can be used as a travel document, enables transactions such as online banking, airline passenger check-in and tax declaration, and gives German citizens control over which service providers can access ID card data.

    Around 60 million of the new ID cards, which contain fingerprint scans and a six-digit PIN digital signature, will be introduced for all citizens aged 16 and over over the next 10 years.

  • Half of UK adults fear ID theft

    Londoners most at risk as internet fraud soars

    Almost half of the UK population fear that their personal identity is at risk from online fraudsters, research released today has claimed.

    A survey commissioned by communications consultancy Glasshouse Partnership revealed that a startling 17 per cent of British consumers have direct or indirect experience of ID theft.

  • Head of e-Government Unit to launch European Centre of Excellence for SmartCards

    The launch of the new European Centre of Excellence for SmartCards and SmartMedia by UK Head of e-Government, Ian Watmore, is set to coincide with the release of cumulative EU IST eEpoch Project outputs at Connecting with Europe, the SmartCard interoperability conference at Cutlers Hall, Sheffield 18th & 19th May 2005.

    Led by Sheffield City Council, the two day event has been designed to address the full range of SmartCard technical and standardisation issues with a focus on interoperability and electronic identification. Through practical workshops and plenary sessions, speakers from across Europe will reveal, demonstrate and evaluate the results of seven pilot schemes in six countries including that of Sheffield City Council’s own multi-application SmartCard project.

  • Heralding the cyber era of governance - Bahrain

    With the news to have the smart card compulsory by next month, Bahrain is just one step away from a completely digitised economy. The law making smart card mandatory will make the Kingdom ahead of many countries in the region to switch over to the new digital economy. This smart card technology is much safer in use and there are minimal chances of frauds in financial transactions as well as in day-to-day affairs.

    The director of technical resources and head of Smart Card project at the Kingdom's Central Informatic Organisation (CIO), Elham Mohammed Saleh, says switching over to the smart card technology is a step forward to achieving excellence in this highly specialised segment of the cyber age.

  • Hong Kong card ID project wins IT award

    Hong Kong's Smart Identity Card System (SMARTICS) wins gold award in the 'Application' category of 6th IT Excellence Awards held by the Hong Kong Computer Society.

    The Director of Immigration Lai Tung-kwok received the award, on behalf of the Hong Kong Immigration Department.

    Lai said the Smart Identity Card System was a complicated system with state-of-the-art technology.

  • Hong Kong goes smart

    Electronic ID cards are now on offer to Hong Kong residents for accessing e-services

    Hong Kong residents are to be offered new smart ID cards for access to e-government services as well as online shopping, entertainment and e-banking facilities.

  • ID cards: can technology cope?

    The government faces a wide range of technology challenges if plans for a national identity card are to be successfully achieved.

    Many experts in biometrics say the aims outlined by the Home Secretary David Blunkett last week for the ID card scheme (Computing, 13 November) have already raised doubts over whether the system can be delivered in the form proposed.

  • Identifikations-Smart-Cards für Italien

    "Carta con Tutti" - Eine Karte für alle Fälle

    Eine Identifikations-Smart-Card soll Italienern künftig den Umgang mit den Behörden vereinfachen. Auf der so genannten CIE (Carta d'Identia Elettronica) sind mehrere Funktionen integriert, für die bisher verschiedene Karten notwendig waren. So kann die CIE als Ausweis zur amtlichen Identifikation, als Krankenversicherungskarte oder als Zugangsberechtigung für öffentliche Einrichtungen verwendet werden.

  • IMS Research details prospects for smart cards

    IMS Research has published a report examining current and future prospects for the smart card technology used in eGovernment and healthcare ID applications.

    In a blog discussing the report, Alex Green, senior research director at the company, has created an opportunity matrix detailing the top prospect countries for these markets in 2016.

    Green says he has given each country by application (eDriving licence, National eID cards, ePassports, healthcare cards) a score that is directly correlated to the volume of cards the firm forecasts to be shipped for that application in that country in 2016.

  • IN: “Rs 20,000 crore can be saved every year if RSBY card is used for PDS”

    In conversation, Anil Swarup, director general, labour welfare

    Anil Swarup is director general, labour welfare, with the ministry of labour and employment. He heads the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), the flagship programme of the ministry. In an interview with Samir Sachdeva, Swarup, an IAS officer (Uttar Pradesh cadre, 1981 batch) speaks about achievements of RSBY and how the use of information technology and smart cards has helped beneficiaries. Edited excerpts:

  • IN: Andhra Pradesh: MGNREGS wage payments through smart cards

    Several initiatives being planned to improve implementation of the scheme, says commissioner

    The State government is planning to make payment of wages to all wage-seekers of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) through biometric smart cards soon, Commissioner of Rural Development G. Jayalakshmi stated.

  • IN: Haryana Chief Minister Launches UID, Smart Cards Project

    Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today flagged off the ambitious project to enroll people for Unique Identification Number (UID) and Smart Cards in the state here.

    In the first phase of the Rs 137.63 crore project sanctioned by the Centre four Blocks of Ambala, Gharaunda, Sonipat and Sirsa would be covered as Pilot Project, Hooda told reporters on the occasion.

    Hooda enrolled himself for the scheme and his Biometrics and fingerprints were also collected.

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