Contactless Smart Cards, RFID, Payment, Transit and Security

ICAO MRTD Symposium and Workshop

Wednesday, September 6, 2006

Dates: September 6-8, 2006
Venue: Montreal, Canada
Location: Montreal, Canada
URL: www.icao.int/icao/en/atb/MRTDsymposium/MRTD_06/
Contact: MRTDSymposium@icao.int, MRTDSymposium@icao.int

Description: Following on last year’s successful event, ICAO plans to hold its second Symposium on Machine Readable Travel Documents (MRTDs) and Biometric Enhancement, from 6 to 8 September 2006. An Exhibition will complement the Symposium and highlight important products and services related to MRTDs, biometric identification, and border inspection systems.


Tentative Programme: A tentative programme for the first two days includes a continuation of the discussions of the previous event, along with new topics and special emphasis on the importance of ICAO-standard, secure travel documents in national aviation security programmes. On the third day a workshop will be offered, focussing on the technical issues of upgrading to ePassports and the functions and usage of the prospective ICAO Public Key Directory, a project to facilitate authentication of ePassports. Who should attend: The Symposium will be of particular interest to officials of passport issuing agencies, immigration, customs, and other border control and security authorities. Staff of airlines and airports, involved in passenger service systems, handling of travel documents, facilitation and aviation security should also participate. [end] 

Border control automation challenged by complex interoperability issues

By Nigel Reavley, Sales Director EMEA, FIME

The use of biometric technology in identity credentials is increasing. It aims to enable countries to implement robust security measures at border crossings and make it difficult to produce fraudulent travel documents. Today, more than 90% of passports deployed include biometric features, often fingerprint images due to their non-intrusive nature.

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The European Association for Biometrics (EAB) is focusing on a goal of driving the research and development of biometrics and building the future of the industry around a concern for end-user privacy protection.

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that it will hold a workshop on April 26 to examine the use of mobile payments and how this emerging technology impacts consumers.

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Intercede announced that it was awarded an order for the supply of Intercede MyID Identity and Credential Management software licenses totaling more than $1 million. This contract is in support of the issuance of ICAO compliant smart card travel documents. The country and partner cannot be named at this time.

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Dates: September 12-15, 2011

Location: Montréal, Canada

Venue: ICAO Headquarters, 999 University Street, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

URL: http://www.icao.int/mrtdsymposium2011/

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Federal Trade Commission staff is seeking public comments on the issues raised at a FTC workshop exploring facial recognition technology and the privacy and security implications raised by its increasing use.

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