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Angola seals financing agreement for $139M biometric passport contract
The green light has now been given for the supply of a new generation biometric passport for Angola after a financing agreement was signed .. read more here

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Face it: deepfakes are better and riskier than we think, says Jumio
Never at a loss for hubris, humans tend to overestimate their ability to detect deepfakes, says new research from Jumio....
 
Zimbabweans verify entries on voter’s roll after criticized biometric registration
Zimbabwean citizens who have registered to vote in the upcoming general elections had until May 31 to crosscheck the information...
Digital wallets and mobile ID to be taken at more TSA checkpoints
Android customers in Maryland have a new option for identity verification at select U.S. airports, with the announcement that the...
 
Nok Nok’s customer expansion continues, spurred by Fido Alliance’s new passkey guidelines
Passwordless authentication firm and co-founder of the Fido Alliance Nok Nok Labs has announced a Year-on-Year (YoY) increase of over...
Indian PM warned of rising Aadhaar payment fraud
Financial fraud related to the country’s unique biometric identifier Aadhaar is rising rapidly in India with, Indian Parliament member John...
 
Irish police watchdog warns of facial recognition abuse, UK police defends the technology
Ireland’s police watchdog said that they will need significant funds in order to track potential abuse of facial recognition technology...
ORF issues policy brief on digital public infrastructure for G20 members
Observer Research Foundation (ORF), a global think tank based in Delhi, India, has published a new policy brief highlighting the...
 
Trust Stamp gains approval for multi-factor authentication patent
Trust Stamp has gained approval for yet another new patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, this time...
Mexico said to be near an app designed to ease growing asylum crisis
Mexico reportedly has developed an app intended to lessen the chaos, dangers and wait times faced by asylum seekers at...
 
Airport digital ID pilot projects draw vendor, national players
Pilots of digital ID continue in the air-travel industry, with IDnow joining a public key directory test and Vietnam trying...
BioCatch identifies difficulties adapting to emerging financial threats
New research from behavioral biometrics firm BioCatch has identified concerns from financial institutions about dealing with emerging financial threats, finding...
 
Verosint streamlines identity proofing with Adaptive Proofing Workflows
Fraud prevention solution provider Verosint has joined forces with digital trust firm ID Dataweb to release what it calls the...
Generative AI raises questions about biometric security
Yet another sector is raising red flags about the potential harms of artificial intelligence, this time with regard to biometric...
 
Innovatrics ABIS gets high marks on NIST ELFT benchmark
Latent fingerprints are the ones forensics experts collect and analyze, those carefully captured traces of human mischief that criminals leave...
  Remark AI wins $6M contract for mobile facial recognition in cop cars
  Experian taps IDVerse for document verification, liveness and face-matching
  Togo brings in Atos and Idemia to build national digital ID program
  Swiss casino automates ID verification with Regula SDK
  DHS HART program still behind schedule and over-budget
  US states closely watching federal rule changes on biometrics
Biometrics White Papers
iProov Biometric Threat Intelligence Report 2023
As face verification gains traction and becomes more prevalent, threat actors are developing evermore sophisticated ways to circumvent these systems...
 
Yoti MyFace liveness white paper
Liveness is an essential part of any verification or authentication process. It gives you reassurance that you are dealing with...
From good to great: The right biometrics capabilities for better banking
The banking industry was already a major user of biometric solutions before the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the pandemic accelerated the...
 
Deep dive into deepfakes
Concerns about fraud are growing as the technology to create deepfakes becomes increasingly accessible. This white paper by ID R&D...
Events and Webinars
Border Security Week
  June 6, 2023 - June 7, 2023
Digital Identity unConference Europe​ 2023
  June 7, 2023 - June 9, 2023
Webinar: Is your digital onboarding really digital?
  June 15, 2023
Future Identity Finance
  June 20, 2023
Biometrics Institute: US Discussion Day 2023
  June 21, 2023
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