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Digital ID in Africa this week: biometrics for public sector pay, passport and driving license problems
Niger’s biometric driving license saga continues to trundle on in the slow lane as an anti-corruption agency now finds fault with the Ministry of Transport, while in Chad there is a shortage of biometric passport booklets – though perhaps not if you’re willing to pay extra ... Read the whole story here.

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Sen. Booker latest to propose regulating government’s use of biometrics
The use of facial recognition in public housing funded by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) would...
 
Voice biometrics spoof nets fraudster $29M
The U.S. subsidiary of financial media giant Nikkei, has been victimized by a voice biometric spoof attack that netted a...
Air France and Paris airports to run biometric boarding pilot
Air France and Aéroports de Paris (ADP) have agreed to roll out a biometric boarding pilot early next year that...
 
Clear launches biometric services with United at Houston and Newark airports
Clear has announced the launch of its biometric services at two new major air travel hubs through its partnership with...
Mobile driver’s licenses reach public availability in New South Wales, Colorado, Oklahoma
Digital Driver’s Licenses (DDLs) became generally available on smartphones for drivers in New South Wales over the weekend, Xinhua reports,...
 
Biometrics stocks news: Next update, NXP down, Unisys up, new Ipsidy board member
Revenues from third quarter sales of Next Biometrics’ fingerprint technology are expected to drop by roughly NOK 17 million (US$1.86...
New African institute to distribute BIO-key biometric security solutions through partner program
The Technology Transfer Institute of Africa (TTI) is the latest to join BIO-key’s Channel Alliance Partner (CAP) program to extend...
 
Chinese researchers reveal method to bypass biometric fingerprint scanners in smartphones
Chinese security researchers from X-Lab security at Tencent challenged fingerprint security in a presentation at the GeekPwn 2019 conference in...
Iran looks into biometric payments to reduce card transactions
Iran is looking into a step-by-step integration of biometric payments and QR codes for better verification and to cut down...
 
DNA company vulnerabilities could expose biometric profiles of millions
Lax security of DNA databases could turn them into easy targets for hackers and a major risk to national security,...
Biometrics beyond the lock and key
This is a guest post by Saleel Awsare, SVP and GM of the IoT division at Synaptics. What’s next for...
 
Digital ID in Africa this week: biometrics for public sector pay, passport and driving license problems
The issue of removing ghost workers from public sector payrolls comes to the fore this week. In Nigeria university staff...
  Apple patents and Mastercard lead this week’s top biometrics and digital ID news
  Government, retail and smartphones to push facial recognition market to $7B by 2024
  INTERPOL urges systematic biometric data collection and sharing to combat terrorist threats
  US federal agencies sued for facial recognition deployment info as UK Commissioner calls for police use rules
  State constitution does not protect against Illinois biometric privacy lawsuit
  Acuant enhances ID capture and biometric liveness detection capabilities
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