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Biometrics and digital ID across Africa this week: mass enrollments, closed borders and system failures
While Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Chad either launched or announced mass enrollments for biometric civil registrations, the system in Tanzania has broken down, meaning an unknown wait for those who have applied for biometric ID in order to register and keep their SIM cards going .. Read the full story here.

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Idex Biometrics announces breakthrough system-on-chip technology slashing smart card costs
Idex Biometrics is launching a biometric-system-on-chip (BSoC) which holds the potential promise to lower the manufacturing cost of biometric smart...
 
Iris biometrics from IrisGuard to enable paperless disbursement of refugee cash aid in Egypt
IrisGuard has partnered with Egypt National Post (ENPO) and the UNHCR to deploy its biometric mobile platform EyePay Cash to...
Biometrics and digital ID across Africa this week: mass enrollments, closed borders and system failures
While Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Chad either launched or announced mass enrollments for biometric civil registrations, the system in...
 
Megvii to refile for lapsed blockbuster biometrics IPO in Hong Kong by end of March
Although currently still on a U.S. blacklist, biometrics unicorn Megvii is refiling for the Hong Kong IPO, writes Reuters, after...
Biometrics, passwordless authentication and encryption key tech demoed at RSA Conference 2020
The annual RSA Conference is on this week in San Francisco, bringing together leading online biometrics and digital identity providers,...
 
Canadian Privacy Commissioners investigate Clearview AI, develop guidance for police use of biometrics
Canada’s Privacy Commissioner and those of the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia and Quebec have announced the launch of...
Alcatraz AI names new VP of Global Accounts to grow biometric access control business
Alcatraz AI has appointed California-based Mitch Fagundes as Vice President of Global Accounts to lead the company’s global biometrics business...
 
New face-cloaking tool 100 percent effective against Amazon, Microsoft, Face++ in testing
Researchers say they have found sand to throw in the gears of unauthorized deep-learning models that harvest facial images online....
How FIDO-based biometric technology clears up the IoT authentication mess
IoT devices can be a security nightmare for businesses and consumers, and now that they have become part of daily...
 
NEC equips West HQ in Australia with biometric kiosks for authentication
NEC has entered a partnership with West HQ, an entertainment, fitness, lifestyle and accommodation destination in Sydney, Australia, to deploy...
Biometric Signature ID statistics show reduced resets with gesture authentication
Biometric Signature ID (BSI) has released statistics for six accounts that deployed its secure gesture biometric solution BioSig-ID to protect...
 
Facebook pays users for their voice recordings to improve speech recognition tech
After it was caught in the act of secretly transcribing voice recordings without user consent, Facebook is officially upgrading its...
 
 
 
 
 
 
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