| Daily Biometrics News : May 21, 2025 |
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| African Digital Identity Hackathon winners present diverse ideas: ID4Africa 2025 |
| The winners of the African Digital Identity Hackathon, organized by Carnegie Mellon University Africa’s Upanzi Network, took the stage during…Read More |
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| Police use of facial recognition continues to raise public concerns |
| Should police use facial recognition technology? Two-thirds of Milwaukee’s Common Council says no. An article… |
| EU calls for public feedback on European Business Wallet |
| The European Commission has issued a call for feedback on the EU Business Wallet, a… |
| Strategies to get the most out of digital identity in focus at ID4Africa 2025 |
| Making digital identity useful is one of the key themes of ID4Africa’s 2025 AGM in… |
| Gambling sees increased risk from GenAI fraud, growing need for biometric IDV |
| A survey of recent content on biometrics and the global gambling industry reveals a growing… |
| Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya reveal revenue generation models from national ID programs |
| At ID4Africa 2025, a panel of representatives from five African countries deemed advanced in identity… |
| ID4Africa 2026 AGM will take place in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire |
| Cote d’Ivoire’s commercial capital, Abidjan, will be the venue of the 2026 edition of ID4Africa’s… |
| Expansion of biometric tech demands trust before adoption, survey finds |
| A new report on consumer attitudes toward biometrics performed by the Identity Theft Resource Center… |
| EU launches interoperable biometric matching service for border control |
| The European Union has made a big step in making its biometric databases for law… |
| Au10tix identifies new deepfake fraud tactic that probes for security vulnerabilities |
| The repeaters are here. I repeat: the repeaters are here. The Q1 2025 Global Identity… |
| Leveraging digital ID in the financial sector: ID4Africa panel |
| Financial inclusion was highlighted as the mother of all digital ID use cases during an… |
| US State Department doubles down on criticism of EU’s DSA |
| The U.S. government continues to pressure the European Union on the Digital Services Act (DSA),… |
| Microblink aces IDNet identity document verification evaluation |
| Put to the test against the IDNet dataset, Microblink’s identity verification platform detected 100 percent… |
| Yubico simplifies passwordless; YubiKeys for Enterprises now available in 175 countries and 24 territories |
| Yubico, a provider of hardware authentication security keys, has announced the expanded availability of YubiKey… |
| 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,… |
| 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… |
