Very soon, digital fingerprinting will be mandatory in German ID cards. The question is: Will it make the cards more secure? Or is it an invasive threat to our freedom? "It was a really creepy feeling ...

The Federal Ministry of the Interior has announced that it will be possible to scan German ID cards with an iPhone running iOS 13. Apple originally locked the NFC reader in iPhones so that it only ...

A new German law will allow intel agencies access to all citizens' ID photos. In combination with facial recognition surveillance technology, this means agents will be able to identify people in ...

The authentication process via German ID cards with RFID chips to certain web services can be manipulated to allow identity spoofing and changing the date of birth. German identity cards issued since ...

The German national digital ID effort is about to get much more mobile. Samsung Electronics says that the country’s digital ID will become available later this year on selected Samsung Galaxy ...

The feature-rich cards, which the government has spent €24 million on so far and is hoping will be used by a variety of third-party organisations, are capable of storing useful authenticators such as ...

Getting an ID card in Germany is set to become more expensive from next year under government plans. For the first time in a decade, the fee for applying to get a new ID card (Personalausweis) in ...

The Dutch semiconductor firm NXP has picked up the contract to provide RFID chips for Germany's new identity cards. NXP said in a statement on Thursday that its SmartMX secure contactless ...

LONDON – NXP Semiconductors NV /quotes/comstock/15*!nxpi/quotes/nls/nxpi has announced that its SmartMX secure contactless microcontroller chip has been chosen for ...

secunet was commissioned by the German Federal Office for Information Security with the extension of the control infrastructure for electronic identity documents. Border control applications like the ...