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Global estimate for people without ID reduced to 850M
ID4D has completed an extensive update to its dataset from 2021 to 2022 and revised down the estimate for the number of people worldwide without official proof of identity .. read this report here

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Biometric Update Daily News
Australian pols giddy with state and federal integration over digital ID
Australia’s efforts to get digital IDs into people’s hands shows, even winning over snarky journalists with the progress. Almost 80...
 
FaceTec quarterly revenue up 106% y-o-y to close 2022
Revenues earned by FaceTec from its biometrics and liveness check technology more than doubled from the fourth quarter of last...
Linux’s OpenWallet Foundation readies launch of open-source engine for digital wallets
In just six months, the OpenWallet Foundation (OWF) has grown from three to 350 global organizations, including trillion-dollar companies, which...
 
The promise of surveillance profits outweighs sanctions for U.S. and China firms
If there are pressure campaigns or government sanctions capable of dissuading China from its expansionist biometric surveillance policies, they have...
Hong Seng acquires 51% of eKYC firm Innov8tif for $7M
Malaysian investment holding company Hong Seng Consolidated Berhad has acquired a 51 percent stake in eKYC firm Innov8tif Holdings by...
 
EU Digital Identity Wallet pilots pull in big names, but questions emerge
More companies announce their commitment to working together on pilots to test use-cases of the EU Digital Identity Wallet. Meanwhile,...
Age verification proposed in 2 more US states
Two more U.S. states are working on ideas to separate children from pornography. Arkansas and Utah, a pair of the...
 
NEC and partners report early success with neonatal biometric vaccine management system
A biometric vaccination management program for newborn children has been jointly developed by NEC, the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)...
Thales, Idemia, Veridos reportedly jostle for mega biometric ID card contract in DR Congo
Some big names in the biometrics and digital ID space such as French giants Idemia and Thales and Germany’s Veridos...
 
Takeaways from Illinois Supreme Court decision on BIPA’s applicable statute of limitations
By David J. Oberly, Biometric Privacy & Data Privacy Attorney For years, litigants involved in Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act...
Philippines ramps up PhilID issuance efforts as over 50M physical, digital cards issued
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) says its objective to speed up the issuance of ID cards to enable citizens enjoy...
 
Selfie biometrics for ID verification expand on Airbnb
One of the world’s largest online rental platforms is increasing its use of identity verification, which is sometimes but not...
AI risk management evolves. Now it has to interoperate
Consensus about AI risk management is growing among the governments of developed economies. That does not mean officials anywhere feel...
 
Persistent phishing to push passkeys past passwords
The adoption of the FIDO Alliance’s passkeys by tech giants has pushed their support by user devices beyond three out...
  Global estimate for people without ID reduced to 850M: ID4D report
  Migrant activists in US say mistakes hindering CBP One app
  UK government to subsidize private digital ID schemes
  Kenya to clear backlog of biometric passports, new ‘smart and digital ID’ system coming
  Italian postal service launches project to ease issuance of digital ID, other services
  Mantra unveils new optical FAP30 fingerprint scanner with liveness detection
Biometrics White Papers
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 biometric technology is reinventing patient identification
It’s hard to care for patients if you don’t know who they are. Yet while patient identification systems have come...
Solving fraud in banking with trusted identities
One of the biggest challenges facing banks today is providing secure and trusted services while substantially improving the customer experience....
 
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
Can we exploit human visual attention to improve face recognition models?
  February 14, 2023
Securing identity in a world shared with virtual humans
  February 15, 2023
Aviation Festival Asia 2023
  February 28, 2023 - March 1, 2023
Workshop on protection of biometric data under GDPR
  March 1, 2023
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