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Civil registries are important – but how do you persuade the people?
How do civil registries enroll more people? Should they make birth certificates compulsory? These were among the issues discussed in the second part of the workshop ‘Mission 100: Towards Achieving 100 percent Legal Identity by 2030’ which began at ID4Africa in Marrakesh in June .. keep reading this report here

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USPTO to start verifying identities, including with biometrics, for trademark submission
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has unveiled plans of verifying individuals’ identities with face biometrics upon submission...
 
Bias testing introduced for biometric liveness detection in ID R&D, BixeLab collaboration
A new test protocol to evaluate the demographic differentials, or bias, in biometric liveness detection systems has been developed by...
Synthetic data getting serious for biometrics training
Synthetic data created by artificial intelligence systems, for AI systems is a growing market, as general adversarial networks (GANs) are...
 
Women in Identity doubles membership, expands board of directors
Non-profit Women in Identity (WiD) announced a new milestone in its journey towards a more inclusive digital identity ecosystem. The...
Sumsub stats show more biometric ID verification needed as crypto regulations increase
Cryptocurrencies could soon be subject to strict anti-money laundering checks in the European Union, with a provisional agreement between the...
 
Trinsic takes $8.5M in Seed round to add headcount, speed decentralized digital ID expansion
Digital identity vendor Trinsic has closed an $8.5 million Seed round led by venture fund Georgian with participation from Kickstart...
Deloitte believes the future of government rests on a vision it calls ‘agile identity’
Deloitte has unveiled a vision called “agile identity” which it believes is the future of government, soon after being awarded...
 
Digitalization of air travel ramps up, driven by biometrics, amid continuing airport chaos
Pent-up demand for both business and leisure travel emerging from the pandemic is seeing passengers embracing mobile and touchless technologies...
Giesecke+Devrient acquires Valid USA to increase payment, digital ID security
Giesecke+Devrient Mobile Security (G+D) has signed an Asset Purchase Agreement (APA) for the acquisition of Brazil-based firm Valid’s payment and...
 
‘Consent is not almighty’: tracking facial recognition in Europe and why it gets blocked
How facial recognition is used for authorization purposes is the topic of the third of MAPFRE’s six-part ‘Mapping the Use...
Engineer writes biometric code to ID anonymous faces in Holocaust photos
Google engineer Daniel Patt claims to have created facial recognition software that can identify unidentified faces in photos from prewar...
 
Sovrin wants feedback on third version of its framework for digital identity systems
The Sovrin Foundation has released a draft of its third ecosystem governance framework. Sovrin Ecosystem Governance Framework V3 comes a...
Civil registries are important – but how do you persuade the people?
How do civil registries enroll more people? Should they twist people’s arms by making birth certificates compulsory? These were among...
 
Problems with audits for bias in AI systems highlighted in research paper
Sasha Costanza-Chock, co-author of a research paper which looks into algorithmic audits, says there are many areas that require improvement...
  Facial recognition use increasing at US federal agencies faster than oversight, GAO reports
  US government committee gather evidence on biometric privacy-enhancing technologies
  iBeta report compares ISO and FIDO standards for biometric presentation attack testing
  Veterans of Zwipe and Fingerprint Cards form biometric access control venture Fuse Identities
  Cloud KYB services from Sumsub, iDenfy expand selfie biometrics applications
  Steep drop in SenseTime stock appears to reflect financial, not facial recognition market
Events and Webinars
Identity India 2022
  July 7, 2022 - July 8, 2022
Identity India 2022 New Delhi, India July 7-8, 2022 IDENTITY India is a conference and exhibition of public sector identity...
PhilSec 2022
  July 12, 2022 - July 13, 2022
PhilSec 2022 Philippines July 12 – 13, 2022 The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) in the Philippines launched...
Digital face manipulation and detection workshop
  July 12, 2022 - July 13, 2022
Digital face manipulation and detection workshop Online July 12-13, 2022 The European Association for Biometrics (EAB) is hosting a two-day virtual...
Digital Forensics for National Security Symposium
  July 27, 2022 - July 28, 2022
Digital Forensics for National Security Symposium National Harbor, MD  July 27 – 28, 2022 DSI’s 3rd Annual Digital Forensics for...
Security Exhibition & Conference
  August 17, 2022 - August 19, 2022
Security Exhibition & Conference Sydney, Australia August 17 – 19, 2022 The security landscape has evolved. Integrating physical security with...
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