U.S. worker ID card being planned?
(SecureIDNews, Mar 09, 2010)
U.S. senators are planning to meet with President Obama this week to propose a new type of ID card that would use biometrics to confirm eligibility to work in the U.S., according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
National ID cards: Changing perspectives?
(SecureIDNews, Mar 09, 2010)
By Zack Martin, Editor, AVISIAN Publications
National identity cards are a fact of life for citizens of some countries but elsewhere the credentials are the focus of ire.
Immigrant rights group slam Obama, Democrats for slow action with legalization bill
(Washington Post, Mar 09, 2010)
By N.C. Aizenman and Spencer S. Hsu
Leaders of nearly a dozen grass-roots immigrant rights groups excoriated President Obama and congressional Democrats on Monday, accusing them of moving too slowly to legalize the status of undocumented immigrants and citing a record number of deportations in 2009.
Lindsey Graham to President Obama: Time to 'step it up'
(Politico, Mar 10, 2010)
By Glenn Thrush
President Barack Obama is summoning two key senators to the Oval Office on Thursday for an update on immigration reform efforts — but one of them, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), thinks Obama should be the one giving the update.
Real CSI Shows Off Fingerprint Technology
(WKRG-TV, Mar 09, 2010)
By Bill Riales
PENSACOLA, Florida - The Florida Department of Law Enforcement unveiled new tools to help in identifying criminals through fingerprints. The Biometric ID system can also collect information from palm prints, scars and tattoos.
It takes DHS about 35 seconds to collect fingerprints from all 10 digits
(Government Security News, Mar 09, 2010)
By: Jacob Goodwin
It takes more than twice as long for the US-VISIT program to collect 10 fingerprints from each non-citizen arriving into the U.S. at an airport or land border as it did prior to 2007, when only two fingerprints were collected.
Obama names retired Army major general to lead TSA
(Government Security News, Mar 09, 2010)
By: Jacob Goodwin
Following a 33-year career in the U.S. Army, primarily in the intelligence arena, and another six years building his own professional services company, known as Harding Security Associates (HSA), Major General Robert Harding (USA-Ret.), President Obama’s new nominee to head the TSA, sold his company to a recently established Northern Virginia government services company that was, in turn, financed by a Chicago-based private equity firm.
American Airlines CEO suggests need for more "profiling" in aviation security
(The Dallas Morning News, Mar 09, 2010)
By Dave Michaels
American Airlines CEO Gerard Arpey suggested Tuesday that TSA needs to do more "behavioral profiling" to separate "the potential bad guys from the non-bad guys." Arpey made the remark during a speech that generally complimented TSA's work since the agency's creation after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
New Delhi to issue smart cards to welfare recipients
(SecureIDNews, Mar 09, 2010)
New Delhi is planning to launch smart ID cards next year to help the poor and illiterate receive benefits from government welfare programs, according to The Press Trust of India.
