| Daily Biometrics News : May 22, 2025 |
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| Need for speed in removing barriers to birth registration, ID integration in Africa |
| Speakers on two panels dedicated to birth registration early on Day 3 of the ongoing ID4Africa 2025 AGM in Addis…Read More |
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| Agentic AI shaping strategies and plans across sectors as AI agents swarm |
| The current moment would have us believe that AI agents are about to become our… |
| Asda supermarket chain faces legal complaint over facial recognition |
| Asda is facing a legal complaint over its use of live facial recognition (LFR) cameras… |
| Thales Data Threat Report warns that mad scramble to embrace AI comes with risk |
| In an online talk about AI, Eric Hanselman, chief analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence… |
| ‘Digital identity is critical national infrastructure’: ID4Africa 2025 |
| World Bank and European Commission Technical Consultant Adam Coooper examined the global landscape of digital… |
| Record ID4Africa exhibitors show growth in continent’s digital identity market |
| Among the new all-time highs in scale set at ID4Africa’s 2025 AGM in Addis Ababa,… |
| Ethiopia unveils FaydaPass digital wallet to boost financial inclusion |
| Ethiopia has launched what it calls the FaydaPass wallet, the latest move in its digital… |
| World raises $135M to support expansion |
| After launching in the U.S. market with great fanfare, World has announced new funding aimed… |
| Australia’s Age Assurance Technology Trial is halfway done |
| The Age Assurance Technology Trial is about halfway through its vendor interviews – according to… |
| Overcoming key challenges in APAC digital government |
| In a recent webinar hosted by Biometric Update, leading figures from Entrust spoke on “Unlocking… |
| GLEIF to integrate its vLEI into Finternet Lab’s tools |
| The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) is planning to integrate its verifiable Legal Entity… |
| Suriname launches OSD-produced biometric passport |
| Suriname has officially launched its new biometric passport for all Surinamese citizens. The Austrian State… |
| Identity is a zero-trust hard requirement for AI agents |
| By Titus Capilnean, VP of Go-to-Market at Civic By 2025, approximately 85% of enterprises are… |
| European countries continue border checks despite Schengen rules |
| European countries continue to extend temporary emergency border controls at checkpoints shared with their Schengen-member… |
| Scottish public split over use of live facial recognition by Police Scotland |
| The Scottish public are split over the use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology by… |
| Biometric verification securing, slowing cash transfer program in Nigeria |
| The Nigerian government is handing out cash to 2.3 million households under a scheme that… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
