After nearly three decades in the field, the 125 kHz prox card remains one of the most widely used card technologies for electronic access. Still, it seems that many are unaware of more recent developments that now threaten the security of these cards. In a blog post on the company’s website, David Stallsmith, Director of Strategic Initiatives at ColorID, details prox, its susceptibilities and why it’s so easy to clone.

Under a North Carolina bill approved last year, the university student ID card has been added to the list of acceptable forms of voter identification. But colleges and universities in the state are postponing signing an attestation document that would make their campus cards official voter IDs, as university officials try to interpret the law and its ramifications.

Connecticut’s Westhill High School will begin printing the contact info for a suicide prevention hotline on the backs of all student ID cards thanks to the efforts of one of its students. Printing suicide prevention hotlines on student ID cards has also been a topic of discussion at the collegiate level, with an increasing number of universities adding valuable resources to the backs of campus cards.

The issue of voter identification, and how to execute it, is a topic of discussion that’s crossed paths with the campus card before. Now, Texas could be the next state to make the student ID card a valid form of identification at the voting booth, following a bill proposed by Texas State Rep. Erin Zwiener, D-Driftwood this week. The bill would allow Texas college students to vote after presenting a campus card alone.

Let’s face it, there’s not much happening on the back of a student ID card. Mag stripes and barcodes aside, in most cases the reverse side features little more than a paragraph of tiny black-and-white legal jargon and perhaps the odd financial network logos. But in 2016, we looked at what a campus can do with the back of the ID card to turn it into a valuable resource for students.

Pennsylvania’s Easton Area School District is set to expand its ScholarChip smart-card entry system to include campus visitors. The visitor management element joins area high school students who have been using the smart cards since the beginning of the school year.

A new campaign from Active Minds, Crisis Text Line, and The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is advocating for students to lobby their universities to print mental health hotlines on student ID cards. The”Transform Your Campus: ID Cards Campaign” is the first of its kind and will support high schools, colleges, and universities in their efforts to add mental health and suicide prevention crisis numbers to student ID cards.