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New Zealand Post's trial of a new passport and digital photo capture system using Daon software is underway.  A recent article in New Zealand's The Dominion Post provided project details and highlights the modular system's potential: 

"The software behind the system could also let NZ Post capture fingerprints and voice samples for identification purposes....NZ Post will need the system for a contract it is negotiating with Internal Affairs under which it would enrol people in the Government's $122 million iGovt identity verification scheme. It also expects to provide biometric identity verification for other public and private sector clients – for example, to produce identity cards. Under the voluntary iGovt scheme, people would visit a Postshop to be digitally photographed, have their credentials checked and to obtain a password and logon that could be used to securely access government services online. People would either register their mobile phone, so a one-off code could be texted to them when they needed to conduct a secure transaction, or would be issued with a "two-factor" security token, similar to those used by banks to secure internet-banking transactions. Behind Post's hi-tech photo-capture service is a software system supplied by United States firm Daon, which Daon has also sold to Australia Post."

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