| Daily Biometrics News : Feb 19, 2025 |
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| African speakers at ID4Africa double in reflection of digital ID progress |
| ID4Africa’s annual general meeting has grown every year, in terms of the size of the program and the number of…Read More |
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| Sri Lanka sets aside $10M in budget for 2025 digital transformation strategy |
| The Sri Lankan government has set aside US $10 million (3 billion Sri Lankan rupees)… |
| Singapore regulator studying age assurance for social media services |
| Singapore has already slapped app stores with age verification requirements, and is among nations exploring… |
| Email address age assurance is private, compliant and simple: VerifyMy, Yoti |
| Email is the technology that never dies, and now it has a use case for… |
| EU Data Protection Board adopts age assurance statement with guiding principles |
| With age check legislation coming to the fore of discussions about online safety, the European… |
| Start assessments now and consider age assurance ‘robustness’: Ofcom |
| Ofcom is readying for enforcement an age assurance with a series of stakeholder engagements, and… |
| Navigating the UK’s Online Safety Act – choosing the right age verification tech |
| Navigating the UK’s Online Safety Act – choosing the right age verification tech Zoom March… |
| ID R&D reveals top passive biometric PAD scores in DHS evaluation |
| ID R&D is the biometrics developer that detected all spoof attempts with a passive liveness… |
| NextgenID in-person identity proofing network deployment at US Post Offices advances |
| NextgenID has successfully completed the first phase of its PresenceID Network deployment in what it… |
| Internal feud rages over unvetted DOGE access to federal IT systems |
| Behind the scenes, tensions are rising between the White House and Intelligence Community (IC), Cybersecurity… |
| Thales to supply polycarbonate ID cards for Arizona Department of Public Safety |
| Thales is partnering with the Arizona Department of Public Safety to supply new polycarbonate ID… |
| Fake IDs getting more sophisticated as buyers shell out in crypto |
| The New York Times reports on the growing professionalism of fake IDs. While perhaps considered… |
| Indian biometrics integrations drive improved revenues for Next |
| Next Biometrics earned 72 million Norwegian kroner (approximately US$6.5 million) in a fiscal 2024 that… |
| Zwipe runs out of time for biometric card revenues, files for bankruptcy |
| Zwipe AS has filed for bankruptcy after an arbitration ruling and years of disappointing revenues.… |
| US states take a page from EU’s AI Act, but biometrics impact likely minimal |
| America is grappling with how to regulate AI. A divide has opened up between the… |
| Cardiff expands live facial recognition for Six Nations championships |
| Police in the capital of Wales are planning to deploy additional live facial recognition cameras… |
| Regula SDK update anticipates new ISO/IEC 39794-5 standard for biometric passports |
| An update to Regula’s Document Reader SDK brings in support for the new ISO/IEC 39794-5… |
| Australian state seeks public feedback on facial recognition use for gambling exclusion |
| The Australian state of New South Wales has opened up public consultation on new gambling… |
| New Zealand govt reviews privacy law amid battle over biometrics regulation |
| The government of New Zealand has been quietly reviewing the country’s privacy laws to identify… |
| Palm vein biometrics ‘crucial’ to JPMorgan’s biometrics strategy, payments head says |
| Jean-Marc Thienpont, global head of omnichannel and biometrics for JPMorgan Payments, referred to palm-based biometrics… |
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