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Digital ID in Africa this week: Biometric ID for Guinea, continued ID controversy for Côte d’Ivoire
West Africa comes to the foreground this week in African digital ID news as Guinea announces plans for a comprehensive civil registry and accompanying biometric ID card scheme with help from the World Bank. Plus, with help from the UAE, a biometrics scheme for identifying welfare recipients ... Read the whole story here.

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Daily Biometrics News
Amazon hit by Illinois biometric data privacy suit for Alexa recordings
A new class action law suit has been filed against Amazon under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act for recording the...
 
Stakeholders split on London police use of public facial recognition as study shows 4 in 5 false positives
The Chair of the Metropolitan Police staff association Ken March has called China’s use of public surveillance with biometric facial...
MobileIron report shows 84 percent of organizations plan new authentication methods
Within the next two years, 84 percent of organizations are planning to adopt new authentication solutions, and low-friction access technologies...
 
Afghanistan approves $15M purchase of 17,865 biometric devices for upcoming elections
Afghanistan’s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has approved funding to deploy biometric devices to ensure the integrity of the country’s upcoming...
Aadhaar amendment for voluntary biometric verification by private sector passes lower house
India’s lower house has passed the Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2019, sending legislation establishing new rules for private...
 
Aximetria develops local storage voice biometric authorization for crypto wallet
Fintech startup Aximetria has developed a new biometric voice authentication technology for private keyless authorization of mobile banking transactions. Digital...
Ipsidy rolls out rapid implementation option for biometric identity solutions
Ipsidy announced today the availability of its Identity Portal, a web-browser interface for enterprises with a rapid implementation option for...
 
Bringing verification into the 21st century
This is a guest post by David Thomas, CEO and founder of Evident ID Inc. The Government Accountability Office (GAO)...
STMicroelectronics launches biometric presence solution for low-power laptop security
STMicroelectronics has launched a biometric presence detection solution with output from its FlightSense Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensor used by Intel’s Context...
 
Apple testing biometric iCloud access and possibly launching iPhone with in-display fingerprint tech
Apple is planning to launch an iPhone with an in-display fingerprint sensor in China, The Global Times reports, citing Chinese-language...
IOTA Foundation develops crypto wallet secured with biometric authentication
The IOTA Foundation has developed a new secure software wallet for IOTA tokens with biometric authentication. The new Trinity Wallet...
 
Digital ID in Africa this week: Biometric ID for Guinea, continued ID controversy for Côte d’Ivoire
West Africa comes to the foreground this week in African digital ID news as Guinea announces plans for a comprehensive...
European Banking Authority sets conditions for PSD2 authentication compliance extension
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has agreed to allow conditional extensions of the deadline for implementing strong customer authentication (SCA)...
 
NIST releases draft AI standards plan
The National Institute of Science and Technology has released a draft of its plan for developing federal artificial intelligence standards,...
 
 
 
 
 
 
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