The unified Brazilian identity card project has shown some signs of life with the announcement of a plan to share biometric data from the electoral registry with the federal government. This is ...

While the United States still debates whether to implement a voter ID mechanism, Brazilian household pets will soon be eligible for the Animal ID card free of charge as the National Register of ...

BRASILIA, Brazil, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Brazil has taken the lead with its introduction of the first high-tech identity smart card in Latin America amid concerns over security in the run-up to the 2014 ...

Brazil is launching its new national identity program powered by blockchain technology. Rio de Janeiro, Goiás and Paraná will be the first states to issue identification documents on-chain.

Handout picture released by Brazilian Civil Police showing the reproduction of the forged ID card -- with a picture of US actor Jack Nicholson and the name Joao Pedro dos Santos -- used by Ricardo ...

I am a Londoner, but I live and work in São Paulo in Brazil. This week I collected my Brazilian permanent ID card. It's taken months of bureaucracy and many visits to theinto get this far. I am a ...