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Gabon hopes to deliver on its lingering national ID card promise this year
This December could usher in good tidings for citizens of Gabon who have gone for many years without seeing any new issuance of the national ID card .. read more here

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Google introduces passkey sign-in with farewell note to passwords
As of May 3, 2023, Google users can opt to secure their accounts using passkeys rather than passwords, according to...
 
Coinbase sued under Biometric Information Privacy Act
It was a matter of when not if. A cryptocurrency company has been accused of violating the U.S. state of...
Seed round for fintech ID startup raises €4.5M
A fresh investment of $4.5 million in Bits Technology could increase the Swedish firm’s penetration into identity and anti-money laundering...
 
Investors are finding deals among biometric verification firms
A pair of corporate finance deals that a year ago would have barely broken the water’s surface are in the...
Will Europe’s digital wallet become a honeypot? Seminar warns of security risks
Will the European Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallet become a honeypot for attackers? As the 2023 deadline approaches for offering European...
 
Questions raised over facial recognition use in Indian prisons
Government agencies in India have been providing contradictory information on the introduction of facial recognition use in prisons amid rising...
Italy considers new biometric surveillance pilots amidst opposition’s concerns
Biometric surveillance is a valuable tool to prevent crime, but it needs to be deployed in respect of Italian citizens’...
 
Aware expects bounce-back after messy fiscal 2022 for biometrics stocks
Executives at biometric authentication software maker Aware say they expect to increase total revenue by at least 15 percent and...
Paravision COO appointed to US Commerce Department AI advisory committee
Paravision President and Chief Operating Officer Benji Hutchinson has been appointed to the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIC), Subcommittee...
 
Alcatraz AI, Precise expand biometric access control reach
California-based biometric autonomous access control solutions provider Alcatraz AI is integrating its technology with Canadian counterpart Genetec. With this new...
Oosto says changes reflect macroeconomics, not shift in facial recognition customer focus
A series of personnel changes by Oosto may have more to do with the macroeconomic environment than any shift in...
 
Nigeria closes in on 100M digital IDs issued as enrollment pace declines
Nigeria is approaching 100 million national biometric digital IDs issues, reaching 98.7 million National Identity Numbers (NINs) by April 28,...
Idex gets production order of fingerprint sensors for biometric access control cards
Norway-based cybersecurity company Pone Biometrics has placed a production order for fingerprint sensor modules from Idex Biometrics to build into...
 
Age check rules meet with pushback from online publishers
Businesses in the North Atlantic economies have few options when it comes to new regulations they do not like. One...
  Like a Russian doll, Malaysian ID verifiers collaborate with and buy each other
  Amnesty wants end to surveillance infrastructure in Palestine
  Be prepared for more fake news, cloned people and manipulated images
  Paravision paper, Biometric Vox deal position face and voice for automotive evolution
  US city ends facial recognition moratorium, considers new rules for police
  First phones with Fingerprint Cards under-display biometrics revealed
Biometrics White Papers
Using biometric technology to fight public sector benefit fraud
The pandemic caused a scramble to digitize typically in-person services in order to provide extensive financial aid to those in...
 
Digital identity proofing for public good: The role of the state DMVs
DMVs have long provided organizations and individuals alike with a key identity verification tool in the form of a physical...
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,...
 
Single-frame facial liveness detection: How it works to reduce user friction and abandonment
The ability to ascertain facial liveness from a single-image frame enables high-performance presentation attack detection without adding friction to the...
Events and Webinars
IFINTEC Finance Technologies Conference and Exhibition
  May 3, 2023 - May 4, 2023
European Identity and Cloud Conference 2023
  May 9, 2023 - May 12, 2023
CMMC Day
  May 15, 2023
2023 Women in Biometrics Awards
  May 16, 2023
SIA GovSummit
  May 16, 2023 - May 17, 2023
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