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Rapid digital identity certifications in UK indicate pent-up demand: DCMS
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Focus on bank’s role in digital wallets gets sharper
It is the second month of 2023, and seemingly everyone wants in on what could be the awakening of banks...
 
A big BIPA decision: Plaintiffs have 5 years to file biometrics claims
A lawsuit limitation decision involving biometrics privacy has been handed down by the U.S. state of Illinois’ Supreme Court. It...
Next for Nigeria’s NIN: location tracking and smart cities
The Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) has launched a call for proposals from the country’s academics with the aim of developing...
 
Oz Forensics pitches liveness detection to the channel with reseller program launch
Oz Forensics is offering its biometric liveness detection capability to prospective partners to enable them to take regional leadership in...
Smart cities advance: Taiwan invests in Iveda, Remark partners with Aaeon
Several smart city projects have advanced in the last few weeks. Arizona-based surveillance firm Iveda has announced several new clients...
 
Free-to-use civil registration system OpenCRVS adds features, configuration
The open-source, free-to-use civil registration and vital statistics platform OpenCRVS has introduced substantial developments in its latest version, 1.2. New...
Yoti integrates selfie verification checks into the electronic signature process
Yoti has become the first identity verification company in the industry to integrate selfie biometrics for identity verification directly into...
 
Patent awarded to ID R&D for securing voice interactions with biometrics and liveness
ID R&D has been granted a patent for a technology bringing continuous, multi-modal biometric authentication to chatbots and virtual assistants...
Tech5 and uqudo develop biometric remote voter verification system for Oman election
The partnership of Tech5 and uqudo has led to the deployment of their technologies for remote biometric voter identity verification...
 
Liquid Avatar reports growing user engagement with web3, verifiable credentials
Aftermath Islands users have created 1.2 million NFTs in the metaverse platform’s first 100 days. Those users verified that they...
French Senators okay AI surveillance bill excluding facial recognition for 2024 Olympics
AI video surveillance technology will be used for incident detection during the 2024 Summer Olympics in France, but not facial...
 
Password inertia keeping consumers from easier payment authentication
Two separate reports have highlighted new trends regarding the adoption of novel payment authentication methods. The first one, resulting from...
Liminal sees digital identity landscape orienting around consumers in 2023
Consumers will take a more central role in the digital identity ecosystem in 2023, according to the latest set of...
 
Dutch watchdog has doubts about centralizing passport biometrics data
Proposals for central biometric databases, especially government databases, are popular with anyone fed up with maddeningly fragmented identity system standard...
  Sprawling US intel project to improve long-distance biometrics on college campus
  Australian gov’t points to what could be with myGov. Not everyone sees it
  Voice deepfakes on the rise; biometrics can help
  Aviation IT spending, biometric gates forecast to spike as private, public entities invest
  Rapid digital identity certifications in UK indicate pent-up demand: DCMS
  Sierra Leone launches biometric ID card to upgrade CRVS, Kenya’s UPI goes birth-to-death
Biometrics White Papers
Multispectral imaging (MSI) fingerprint technology
Organizations increasingly rely on digital technologies to validate identities for secure interactions and services such as banking transactions, medication dispensing,...
 
Mitigating demographic bias in facial presentation attack detection
Bias in AI-powered biometric algorithms can lead to unfair treatment of individuals in certain demographic groups based on their gender,...
How can we get personal? Leveraging biometrics for loss prevention — and beyond
With biometrics, retailers can reduce loss and theft, improve customer service and increase operational efficiency. The value of robust identification...
 
On-demand webinar – Human or machine: AI proves best at spotting biometric attacks
With large organizations processing millions of face checks monthly, one advantage of AI liveness detection is the reduced burden on...
Events and Webinars
ID4Africa LiveCast – Civil registration in Africa: Scaling for impact
  February 8, 2023
Securing identity in a world shared with virtual humans
  February 15, 2023
Aviation Festival Asia 2023
  February 28, 2023 - March 1, 2023
World Police Summit
  March 7, 2023 - March 9, 2023
7th Edition Connected Banking Summit East Africa
  March 7, 2023
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