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Our Mission

The Secure ID Coalition is an affiliation of companies providing digital security solutions for identification documents, including contactless smart cards. Our mission is to promote the understanding and appropriate use of smart card technology to achieve enhanced security for ID management systems while maintaining user privacy.

Such ID management systems include physical and/or logical access to facilities and networks.

Our Partners

Working with the following groups to help lead the charge for secure identification systems

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Citizens Privacy Rights

Coalition members support specific citizen privacy rights as follows:

Privacy of personal information as defined by all relevant regulations and laws, principally the body of laws known as the Fair Information Practices.

Confidence that ID documents have been appropriately secured against threats of fraudulent access to personal information.

Knowledge of

  • 1what data is contained in electronic ID document;

  • 2how that data will be collected, secured and transmitted;

  • 3the presence of radio frequency (RF) technology in ID documents;

  • 4when, where and why an RF device is being read.
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Secure News to Know

  • Why We Need Biometric ID Cards

    Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) met yesterday with President Obama to discuss their immigration reform proposal.  When he was a presidential candidate, Obama promised he would address immigration reform early in his administration; the Senators’ plan offers the beginnings of the debate.  One topic on the agenda for yesterday’s meeting was a proposed biometric-enabled ID card that allows for the definitive identification of workers.

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  • Medical Identity Theft is Coming... Don't be a Victim!


    According to a recent survey by The Ponemon Institute, six percent of Americans have been victims of medical identity theft.  This problem, while seemingly small, is on the rise and is increasingly costly patients, doctors and the larger healthcare economy.  Unless action is taken to secure our medical records, medical identity theft will become more prevalent as records begin to be digitized and move online. Read more...
     

  • Microsoft gets e-ID right

    Microsoft gets it right and this time it’s not Windows 7, but managing our identities online.   Scott Charney, Microsoft Corporate VP of Trustworthy Computing, addressed the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco this week and reiterated the importance of using real-world identity proofing to establish one’s digital identity.  Because criminal and nefarious activity online is so extensive, impacting consumers, corporations, and government, knowing with whom you are doing business is essential for both security and privacy protection.

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  • Wake Up: E-Verify Doesn't Actually Verify Workers

    This past December, a report to the Department of Homeland Security, on E-Verify, found the system has significant problems; wrongly verifying over half of the unauthorized worker population, a failing grade by any academic standard.

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