New York City is looking to add smart chip technology that can be used in the city's municipal ID cards. The smart chips would enable the cards to store and spend money.

Approximately 33% of all denied hospital claims are associated with inaccurate patient identification, which costs the average hospital $1.5 million and the U.S. healthcare system more than $6 billion annually.

The European Commission has proposed that identity cards held by EU citizens be required to include digital images of the holder's fingerprints.

The Arizona Department of Transportation announced that its residents will need a new form of identification to pass through TSA screeners in the future.

Fliers who don't have the latest driver's licenses will have a two-year reprieve before their IDs are rejected at airport security checkpoints.

In my last column I wrote about the “Human Factor” of access control and identification. I now recall several negative incidents that I experienced as a security director involving security staffs screening persons entering the lobbies of hospitals.

Two individuals obtained credentials and then worked with others to open accounts and gain access to loans all illegally.

The alleged scam targeted customers who often paid with American Express Black cards and other high-limit credit cards.