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Sierra Leone seeks supplier of biometric voter kits and system ahead of 2023 elections
According to a tender document seen by Biometric Update. 2,000 kits are required by the tender which closes on 14 March 2022 for registration to take place later in the year ... Read the full report here

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Alaska bill proposes repeal of Real ID to offer non-biometric driver’s licenses
Proposed legislation in Alaska would repeal the state’s implementation of the Real ID Act, the Tenth Amendment Center writes, setting up a...
 
Aratek returns to ISC West for 2022 with broad range of biometric scanners
Taiwan-based Aratek will showcase its diverse range of biometric scanners and solutions at the upcoming ISC West 2022 security trade show...
Draft biometric SIM registration law in Philippines triggers privacy worries
A draft piece of regulation to render mandatory the registration of SIM cards including with biometrics in the Philippines has...
 
US plays catch-up with online protections, UK mulls another leap
Online privacy for children looks like it should be strengthened in the U.S. at a federal level, and sooner in...
Digital identity division boost Thales Group to best ever year
Thales Group has announced a strong set of financials that have prompted it to revise its predictions and targets upwards. While...
 
MOSIP, OpenG2P partner on digital ID solution for smooth service delivery
Open-source digital ID provider MOSIP and digital public goods organization OpenG2P say they are bringing together their solutions in the...
Critics of facial recognition out-lobbying well-known vendors
A research group picking through U.S. lobbying activity about facial recognition shows fairly modest spending by most organizations last year,...
 
Aculab updates authentication suite with face biometrics
Aculab has announced the expansion of its biometric authentication suite with a new, facial authentication-based biometric engine. Called FaiSentry, the...
Training dataset tower of babel collected for voice AI development
A Chinese AI data services vendor claims to have built speech training datasets in at least 30 languages, a task...
 
Veriff targets healthcare fraud with new biometric identity verification platform
Veriff has released a new suite of biometrics-powered identity verification solutions designed specifically for the healthcare industry. According to the...
Secret Double Octopus claims 80 percent cuts to deployment times via new digital ID cloud
Secret Double Octopus (SDO) has unveiled a new cloud deployment option for its digital ID authentication platform and associated offerings....
 
Plurilock unveils VPN and behavioral biometrics updates with Spring product release
Plurilock has announced the general availability of its Spring 2022 product release, which upgrades the company’s behavioral biometrics-powered continuous authentication...
Academic deepfake research paper suggests liveness detection vulnerable
Research into the methods, effectiveness and limits of biometric deepfake detection has been added to the growing body of work...
 
Statewatch warns of worsening ethnic profiling risk in EU as identity systems expand
Monitoring organization Statewatch warns that new biometric identity controls used by police and immigration authorities in the European Union could...
 
 
 
 
 
 
Events and Webinars
ID4Africa LiveCasts: Mobile for Identity Management and Inclusive ID4D
  March 9, 2022 - April 27, 2022
ID4Africa LiveCasts: Mobile for Identity Management and Inclusive ID4D March 9 & 23, April 13 & 27: 13:30 GMT From...
Border Management & Technologies Summit Middle East 2022
  March 14, 2022 - March 16, 2022
Border Management & Technologies Summit Middle East 2022 March 14 – 16, 2022 Dubai, UAE IBMATA are pleased to announce...
GISEC 2022
  March 21, 2022 - March 23, 2022
GISEC 2022 Dubai March 21 – 23, 2022 GISEC is the region’s most established and influential cybersecurity and infosec exhibition...
Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience North America
  April 6, 2022 - April 8, 2022
Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience North America New Orleans, USA April 6th – 8th, 2022 Presidential Policy Directive 21 (PPD-21):...
Identity Management Symposium
  April 6, 2022 - April 7, 2022
Identity Management Symposium Oxon Hill, Maryland April 6-7, 2022 DSI’s 8th Annual Identity Management Symposium will focus on the technologies...