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Kenya Huduma Namba funding almost entirely cut as UPI, digital birth registration begins

The identity landscape in Kenya continues to shift as birth registration goes digital on 1 March and funding for Huduma...

Digital identity market poised for massive growth, but not in the US

If a new industry research paper is correct, digital ID apps are going to boom. Juniper Research says the 2.3...

Oversight may become common feature of facial recognition policies for police

The 2023 crop of biometric surveillance legislation in North American is trying to find a balance between public safety and...

Partners join forces to enhance digital payment experience with biometrics

A pair of partnerships have been formed to bring biometrics to payments, one in Asia Pacific and another in the...

Digital wallets beyond $16T in payments; banks want to handle identity transactions too

The launch by the Linux Foundation Europe of the global OpenWallet Foundation (OWF) drive to create an open-source engine –...

PixLab adds active liveness detection to FaceIO biometrics framework

Biometric liveness detection technologies by machine vision company PixLab have been implemented in the firm’s FaceIO cross-browser facial authentication framework....

Chipped ID documents expand in Vietnam with passport launch, healthcare use

Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security will begin issuing chip-based biometric passports from 1 March in line with exit/entry requirements for...

Eurostar, Eurotunnel worries about capturing biometrics stall ETIAS again

The launch of the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) has been delayed by the European Union once again,...

EU program creates criminal network investigation platform with Phonexia voice biometrics

European Union research project ‘ROXANNE’ has completed its development of a system that includes voice biometrics for law enforcement agencies...

Why are so many organizations still playing the waiting game with digital ID?

By Nick Mothershaw, Chief Identity Strategist at the Open Identity Exchange The digital ID eco-system is rapidly expanding, with ID...

UAE project to make scores of govt services accessible for citizens through digital ID

The government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has launched the first phase of a project dubbed ‘Emirati’ which will...

Dojah, Nethone earn ISO certifications to demonstrate data security

Dojah and Nethone, two fraud prevention and KYC providers that handle biometrics, have announced that they have recently earned ISO...

Better security for Aadhaar fingerprint authentication in place

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has implemented a new two-factor authentication mechanism for Aadhaar fingerprint biometrics. The machine...

Innovatrics CEO advises careful use of synthetic data to improve biometrics, cut bias

Synthetic data can be used to improve biometric machine learning models and AI applications, says Innovatrics CEO Ján Lunter, but...

Vouched seeks more growth after $6.3M in venture funding

US health agency ponders digital identity as a service to manage crises

Cyprus plans $43M ID document upgrade tender

Another patent from Apple puts palm biometrics on smart watches

Customers prefer facial age estimation for self-checkouts: Yoti global retail report

cetecom advanced accredited for Android biometric standards testing

Biometrics White Papers

January 2023 update to ISO/IEC standard 30107-3: How do changes affect development and testing?

In January of 2023, ISO/IEC published a new, second edition of the 30107-3 standard that replaces the earlier, first edition...

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,...

Presentation attack detection: Measuring performance of APCER and BPCER

APCER and BPCER are acronyms for error rates used to quantify the performance of presentation attack detection (PAD) systems. This...

Biometrics are transforming the retail landscape

The retail experience has undergone profound shifts in the past decade. As consumers grew more comfortable making purchases online, they...

Events and Webinars

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7th Edition Connected Banking Summit East Africa

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GISEC 2023

March 14, 2023 - March 16, 2023

2023 Digital Identity Accountability Summit

March 14, 2023

Emerging & Disruptive Technology for Defense

March 21, 2023 - March 22, 2023

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