| Daily Biometrics News : May 20, 2025 |
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| African nations making digital ID gains in the face of common challenges |
| Several countries in Africa are on the right track with their national digital ID projects, but this is not coming…Read More |
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| Digidentity enables remote onboarding registration for GMC doctors in UK |
| Healthcare continues to open up as a potentially major market for biometrics and reusable digital… |
| Explaining W3C Verifiable Credentials and biometrics a key mission for Dock Labs |
| All legitimate credentials can be verified – but not all credentials are Verifiable Credentials. It… |
| Ethiopia reveals strategy behind digital ID progress as ID4Africa 2025 opens |
| Ethiopia’s Fayda digital ID program successes were in the spotlight on the first day of… |
| ID4Africa 2025 begins with record numbers, urgency and Ethiopian PM’s address |
| ID4Africa’s 2025 AGM kicked off today in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, attended by Prime Minister Dr.… |
| DHS invites comments on new biometric sensor performance studies |
| The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is inviting public comments on a proposed information… |
| Biometrics, age-appropriate design on the mind of UK Information Commissioner |
| UK Information Commissioner John Edwards is on a bit of a speaking tour, having recently… |
| Simprints highlights Gavi support for privacy-first biometrics for vaccines program in Ghana |
| Simprints welcomed Gavi CEO Dr. Sania Nishtar on a visit to Ghana to observe pioneering… |
| Prevalence of fraud-as-a-service models eroding online trust at speed: Jumio |
| Digital trust is “crumbling” under an avalanche of synthetic media, misinformation and deepfake fraud, according… |
| Digital Cooperation Organization wants Global South to join global digital policymaking |
| Pakistan has recently concluded the first Digital Foreign Direct Investment Forum 2025 (DFDI) in preparation… |
| Regula helps React cut onboarding time to under 30 seconds |
| Digital identification provider React has partnered with Regula to streamline digital onboarding and remote identity… |
| Idiap, PXL Vision introduce biometric document injection attack detection contest |
| The Biometrics Security and Privacy team at Idiap Research Institute and PXL Vision are hosting… |
| EU moves closer to EES biometric border rollout |
| The EU has made another step towards introducing its biometric border system. The exact date… |
| Germany rolls out biometric kiosks to streamline digital ID issuance |
| As of May 1st, all German government and immigration offices are required to accept digital… |
| Apologetic Intelligence – should bots handle complaints? |
| By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner Can Artificial Intelligence be sincere?… |
| Suprema achieves EN Grade 3 certification for its BioStar high-security access control |
| Suprema has gained EN 60839-11-1:2013 Grade 3 certification for its BioStar2 Access Control software and… |
| NDPC urges Africa-wide data protection, signs MoU with Somalia and launches privacy academy |
| It’s a busy month for Nigeria and African data protection officials as Nigeria’s capital Abuja… |
| 10 million passkeys registered for Mercari market app amid phishing crisis |
| Mercari, the Japanese e-commerce company behind the Mercari marketplace, has surpassed 10 million registered users… |
| Project NOLA’s facial recognition push raises legal and civil rights questions |
| This week, the New Orleans City Council’s Criminal Justice Committee is expected to convene a… |
| PNG launches birth registration legislation in landmark for national ID project |
| Papua New Guinea is taking a concrete step in making sure every citizen is officially… |
