Identification

Mr. Andrew Morris Will Give the Special Prize in the Employer Branding Network Category b2b Media, with the investment company The Blueprint as partner, will launch the first edition of the Employer Branding Awards in this country. The project is about recognizing the achievements of companies on the Bulgarian market in promoting and strengthening the image of the employer brand.

The government is quietly preparing to postpone once again the introduction of personal documents with electronic identification. The new date on which the government is planning to introduce them is January 1, 2019.

The government has adopted the draft Law on Electronic Documents, Electronic Identification and Trusted Services in Electronic Commerce.

It allows electronic documents to be recognized as paper documents, as well as different levels of identification of physical and legal entities, the government announced on its website.

A company in Wisconsin will become the first in the United States to implant workers with microchips, BGNES said.

Three Square Market offers to implant a fully free RFID device in the hands of its employees.

Greek authorities have sent France's General Directorate for External Security fingerprints, photographs and other data pertaining to 180,000 refugees and migrants who passed through Greece in the period between August 1 and November 12, 2015, just before a deadly terrorist attack in Paris that claimed 130 lives and left 700 people injured.

National Health Insurance Fund announced that the operation of the system for fingerprint identification in hospitals stopped working exactly at 17:30 today.

Bulgaria's Supreme Administrative Court has annulled finally the regulation for the admitting and discharge of patients from hospitals only after fingerprint identification.

The announcement will be published tomorrow after the personal data of the five members of the court is erased.

A 33-year-old Albanian has been arrested in Loutraki after a four and a half months investigation regarding a big quantity of drugs that had been found on October 28th last year.

 
According to the police, he and a still unknown number of accomplices had hidden 17,93 kilos of cannabis and 93,48 gr. of cocaine.

Bulgaria's Health Ministry has postponed the introduction of fingerprint identification in the outpatient sector.

The decision will protect the healthcare system from collapse in terms of medical, technical, information and financial stability, stated Health Minister Ilko Semerdzhiev.

An Afghan asylum-seeker suspected of raping and killing a 19-year-old university student in Freiburg was also convicted of attempting to kill another woman in Greece but was released early from prison, Germany's top security official said Thursday.