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Brazilian digital ID firm Unico acquires Oz Forensics and Trully.AI
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ACI pushes back on Philippine national ID card contract cancelation
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As the European Union approaches the launch of its digital identity project, feedback on the…
Infant.ID updates biometric scanner for infants and advances research
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The Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) has announced the incorporation of a liveness detection feature…
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