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Trustech, the event dedicated to payments, identification and security, is back to Paris after a couple years under the sun of the Mediterranean. People who count in our industry are happy to have the opportunity to meet again and see changes in positions and corporations of their acquaintances. Interestingly, the eID segment is taking an always increasing place in our industry. While Cartes was centered around the card industry and the first editions of Trustech were very mu

Looking back on history, G+D recently published a story about the beginning of the SIM cards 30 years ago, in 1991, with the company’s first delivery of commercial SIM cards to Radiolinja, then mobile operator in Finland. Before this, the concept of the SIM emerged when engineers from smart card manufacturers Giesecke & Devrient (now G+D), Gemplus and Schlumberger (both now part of Thales), participated in the standardization process of cellular communications, which became k

Since biometrics have been around, there has been discussions on how ethical biometrics can be defined and designed. The case of facial recognition is event more significant. We all know what unethical facial recognition is. It is clear to most of us that mass surveillance programs or citizen scoring, as is done in China, does not qualify as ethical facial recognition. One of the steps in defining what is ethical is setting up the difference between face recognition, i.e. fin

According to several reports, EU Green Pass certificates, the ones that are used in the form of QR codes to prove one's Covid vaccination or negative tests, are now on sale on hackers' forums and even on Telegram. The fraudsters generated certificates in the name of Adolf Hitler with a birthdate set at January 1st, 1900, and also in the name of Mickey Mouse, Sponge Bob and a few others. The issue is that these certificates are recognized as valid by the official Green Pass ve