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For everyone in the secure transactions industry, France is known as the home of two out of three of the leaders in the industry: Thales (formerly Gemalto) and Idemia (made of Oberthur and Safran), while Germany is home to the third leader Giesecke & Devrient (G+D). However, everyone belonging to these major players was slightly embarrassed when they were questioned by international customers: “if your electronic ID card solution is so great, how come your government has not

While the whole payment industry is after always better security thanks to smart cards and mobile payments, some application developers have chosen to privilege ease of use over hardware-based security. QR codes were developed more than 25 years ago as a means of tracking inventory in a manufacturing environment. As they can represent any character chain, including URLs and payment data, and require very little dedicated investment, they are now widely used for a variety of p

Secure Identity Alliance (SIA), the industry association of identity system suppliers (its board members are Thales, Idemia, IN Groupe and Veridos) just published its latest report titled “Giving voice to Digital identities worldwide,” in collaboration with onepoint, a France-based consulting firm. In addition, SIA and onepoint held a conference to introduce the results of their research. The goal of the report is to provide a current status on the state of government-led Dig

Consensus is growing about the need for governments and organizations to grant different rights to people who received a COVID-19 vaccine...