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Daily Biometrics News : Oct 9, 2024
App stores enter the age verification debate as social media points fingers
In the dialogue about how to effectively protect young people from accessing adult content online, social media companies take a…Read More
 
Global DPI Summit proposes 7 keys to speed up Africa’s digital transformation
The first-ever edition of the Global DPI Summit which took place at the start of…
Deepfake threat still stirring concern about election integrity
The specter of deepfakes continues to hover over the various elections of 2024, and even…
Veridas teases major facial access deployment at major American stadium
Spain’s Veridas is expanding in Europe and beyond, with movements in the biometric access control…
NYU Tandon Computer Science faculty tackling deepfakes
With the support of Google’s Cyber NYC Institutional Research Program (IRP), a team of NYU…
Thales powers Guam Police’s revived biometric system for gun-owner IDs
The Guam Police Department (GPD) will be reinstating its digital fingerprint system for the issuance…
France adding health cards to digital ID app next year
The French government plans to make the healthcare card, known as the carte Vitale, accessible…
The Maldives secures Mantra fingerprint biometrics scanners for national ID system
The Maldives has acquired biometric scanners that will be used as part of the country’s…
OpenID Connect spec family adopted as international standards
They grow up so fast. A full decade has passed since OpenID Connect was launched,…
Pats on the back, questions and suggestions for NIST’s Digital Identity Guidelines
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology should communicate clearly with Congress and continue…
Upgrade to New Zealand’s immigration system postponed
A key improvement to New Zealand’s immigration identity system, known as the Biometric Capability Upgrade…
Europe outlines plans for EU Digital Travel app as concerns over EES rise
The era of digital passports may be drawing closer in the European Union. The bloc…
Indian state launches pilot for family digital ID card project
Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has inaugurated a pilot project to introduce family digital…
ChatGPT can recognize ‘facial identities,’ perform age estimation: research
The large language model (LLM) ChatGPT “recognizes facial identities and differentiates between two facial images…
NIST seeks input, awards contract to hone digital identity guidance
A U.S. government body is seeking feedback on how attribute validation services (AVS) should work…
Worldcoin pivots away from Europe amid tangle of GDPR problems
One thing about the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): it is designed to protect…
Landscape of UK digital public services changing with shift in strategy
The UK government has convened a panel of tech experts to steer its digital strategy,…
Ghana launches CitizenApp to facilitate access to digital govt services
On October 7 in Accra, Ghana’s Vice President and candidate of the ruling party for…
Nigeria incorporating contactless fingerprints for online passport renewal
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) says it will soon enter an era where the application…
Accura Scan launches ID document liveness software for enhanced fraud protection
Accura Scan has introduced identity document liveness, or physical presence checking software to protect biometric…
 

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Central African Republic in full biometric voter registration preparations
The Central African Republic (CAR) is in the process of organizing local elections it has not held since 1988. The…Read More
 
Why the future of biometrics must be privacy-first for widespread scaling and adoption
By Blaine Frederick, VP of Product at Alcatraz AI In 2013, Apple revolutionized its flagship…
PimEyes says Meta glasses integration could have ‘irreversible consequences’
Two Harvard students made headlines after converting Meta’s smart glasses into a device that automatically…
US election likely to be a missed opportunity to advance digital ID policy
The 2024 U.S. election represents an opportunity for social dialogue around digital identity policy in…
Facial recognition and perpetrator focus – a culture shift
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner Focus on the perpetrator. That…
How multimodal biometrics help with age verification and compliance
By Vignesh Krishnakumar, co-founder and CTO of HyperVerge Over 66 percent of the world’s population…
Owning your identity in the web3 age: The shift to decentralized security
By Terence Kwok, CEO and Founder of Humanity Protocol Our personal information has become one…
Bosnia is leapfrogging neighbors with digital ID wallet launch: Identyum CEO
The European digital identity project is rippling beyond its borders into neighboring countries such as…
Laxton to accompany Ethiopia on 90M digital ID target by 2030
Laxton says its partnership with the Ethiopia National ID Program (NIDP) has been crucial in…
LATAM and Caribbean embrace DPI, led by Guyana’s digital ID and biometrics push
Latin America and the Caribbean have been leveraging technology to enhance public services, drive economic…
 
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Responsible biometrics: A guide to ethical and secure identity verification
Biometrics have been used for a variety of purposes for centuries. Fingerprints, handprints, and various measurements of the body were…Read More
 
A buyer’s guide to online identity verification
How to separate the contenders from the pretenders in online identity verification vendors Identity verification is the process of verifying…Read More
 
Metrics that matter – How to evaluate identity verification technology
If you’re confused by all the identity verification solutions on the market and how they’re different, you’re not alone. With…Read More
 
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Decentralized identity for secure user authentication
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Unmasking document and biometric identity fraud: Exposing the deceptions
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