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Watchdata passes VISA certification

Friday, December 23, 2011

Watchdata announced that its products have successfully passed certification standards for use by the Visa.

The TimeCOS-JV-S-T0-1 and the TimeCOS–JV–C–T0–1 are the two latest products by Watchdata to be certified by VISA and suitable for commercial use. The company’s expanded and upgraded sticker product, the Timecos/Fly TransWave v.10 has also passed standards for use by Visa. [end] 

Brazil’s National Institute of Information Technology (ITI) has granted NSH-1 compliance for ICP-Brazil to Watchdata Technologies’ WatchKey USB PKI security token. This is the first USB PKI security token on the market to meet the ITI standards.

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Visa Europe has confirmed that its new digital wallet service, V.me, will launch to an initial group of consumers in the UK, Spain and France in fall 2012.

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Watchdata Technologies has recieved Level 2 FIPS 140-2 validation certificate to Watchdata for its WatchKey USB Token under the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) by NIST and the Communication Security Establishment of Canada.

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The Indian government has started piloting biometric data capture for visa applications as part of its Immigration, Visa, Foreigner’s Registration and Tracking (IVFRT) project, reports The Indian Express.

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