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First Responders to receive smart, trackable ID cards

By Vicky Radcliff|2015-06-23T17:19:00+00:00October 19th, 2007|

What’s one of the most important things in disaster recovery? The natural response is to say to help – as much as possible and wherever needed. However, first responders – groups like fire fighters, police officers, medical personnel and the national guard, have recently struggled with responder tracking during major disasters like Hurricane Katrina and 9/11. Government officials struggle to locate, organize and effectively battle the crisis to which they are responding. First responders, who may quickly move from place to place and agency to agency in order to maximize efficiency and help, need to work and communicate quickly and focus as much as possible on the task at hand instead of the infrastructure of support.

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ID card for cardamom growers is hoped to boost business

By Vicky Radcliff|2015-06-23T17:19:03+00:00August 29th, 2007|

India is known for lots of things – the birthplace of many major religions, the Taj Mahal, delicious food, V.S. Naipaul, and the Indus Valley civilization. India has also long been revered for its spices, including cardamom, the unique ginger relative used in everything from digestive aids to Chai tea. There are over 40,000 cardamom growers in India today, and their regulatory group, the Spices Board, has introduced a new ID card program which is aiming to increase exports of the spice.

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Chinese RFID cards distributed to ensure happiness

By Vicky Radcliff|2015-06-23T17:19:06+00:00August 28th, 2007|

Authorities in Guangdong Province, China (one of the country’s wealthiest areas) have introduced a plan which aims to boost security, prevent crime, and make cities and villages in Guangdong safer for everyone. RFID cards, to be issued to all residents, are a key element of this plan. Citizens would be required to carry one of these ID cards on them at all times, and information from the cards will be used to bolster a government program called the “public security information network.” The RFID cards, which will hold information like bus records and credit card purchases, will likely transmit the information stored on the card to checkpoints at certain intervals. RFID cards, or contactless smart cards, have the ability to transmit information to a reader or interceptor through radio waves.

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Pool ID cards help keep track of kids

By Vicky Radcliff|2015-06-23T17:19:10+00:00June 6th, 2007|

Ah, the idyllic days of summer, where the days consist of mischief, little league games, playing with friends, and swimming at the town pool. Perfect, right? Maybe for kids - but parents can quickly get worried when they don't know where little Johnny or Suzie ran off to. The Shanklin Municipal Pool in Goshen, Indiana has instituted an ID card program which city officials hope will help prevent this.

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Town employees receive ID cards to ensure safety

By Vicky Radcliff|2015-06-23T17:19:14+00:00May 24th, 2007|

Officials were prompted to institute the new ID rule after a man in Marion, MA convinced residents he was the city's building inspector, allowing him to enter and rob homes easily. The city councilor in charge of the proposal says that the ID badge program is an easy and inexpensive way to assure residents that city employees are in fact who they say they are. The ID card initiative is hoped to prevent problems like those in Marion from occurring.

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Gov. Gregoire claims new border ID will replace REAL ID requirements

By Vicky Radcliff|2015-06-23T17:19:17+00:00May 17th, 2007|

After publicly joining the governors of several other states in a clear disapproval of the REAL ID act of 2005, Washington governor Christine Gregoire has voiced support for a new state ID program that would replace the state’s requirements for the REAL ID card.

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Irish ID Card Proposal to Limit Underage Drinking

By Vicky Radcliff|2015-06-23T17:19:21+00:00April 25th, 2007|

69% of Irish 16 and 17-year olds have admitted to underage drinking, and in a response, the Irish government is issuing a voluntary tamper-proof ID card, with plans to eventually make it compulsory.

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The Race is on for Developing the Smartest of Smart Card Technology

By Vicky Radcliff|2015-06-23T18:44:40+00:00April 16th, 2007|

In 2004, when the Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) was issued, a shot was fired that started the race to create the next generation of government ID cards. The directive requires that all federal employees and contractors carry a secure ID that works across all government agencies, and functions for the purpose of both access control as well as logistical applications such as logging onto computers. It’s estimated that HDPD-12-compliant forms of ID will eventually be carried by upwards of 4 million federal employees and tens of millions of contractors.

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ID Issues – Do Driver’s Licenses need Photos?

By Vicky Radcliff|2015-06-23T17:19:28+00:00March 20th, 2007|

We're all accustomed to the DMV - waiting in line, filling out endless forms, the people in line who can't seem to read the signs and obey the rules, the curt employees...and the really, really, really bad photos that always seem to end up on our state-issued IDs. It seems that they're an inevitable part of life - birth, death, taxes and the crummy license photo.

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Venezuela Issues First Refugee ID Card

By Vicky Radcliff|2024-01-04T15:16:22+00:00February 21st, 2007|

Years of warlords, civil strife and drug trafficking in Colombia have brought thousands of refugees into neighboring Venezuela - over 200,000 in the past eight years. While only 20 of these are recognized as legitimate refugees, Venezuela has recently instituted an ID card program to protect those who have requested asylum.

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