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Evernym acquisition sets next chapter for self-sovereign identity in Europe
There was big news in the world of self-sovereign digital identity last week with the announcement of Avast acquiring Evernym. Thought leader and futurist Heather Vescent looks into the deal in our latest Industry Insight column ..keep reading this exclusive report

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Biometric Update Daily News
Trust Stamp strengthens Africa team to deliver tokenized biometrics
Trust Stamp says it is adding more personnel to beef up its Africa presence in Rwanda as it looks forward...
 
Megvii, CloudWalk, Yitu to join SenseTime on US investment blacklist
U.S. investors are to be barred from investing in eight more Chinese firms alleged to be involved in abuses in...
Enterprise biometric solution combines Nymi wearable, G+D access control technology
A wristband for passwordless physical and logical biometric access control has been jointly developed by Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) and Nymi to unify...
 
Aadhaar set to expand by 900K with court order to include sex workers
Sex workers in India should be brought into the remit of government services with voter and ration cards and Aadhaar...
Thailand, Finland invest $94M amid digital ID funding, partnership flurry
A number of governmental projects around the world have announced new funding or partnerships, with the Thailand Digital Government Development...
 
Idemia brings biometrics to Barcelona airport via Aena partnership
Idemia has entered a new partnership with Spanish airport operator Aena to deploy its biometric technology at Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El...
Fime study X-rays impact on fingerprint biometric systems from environmental conditions
Joël Di Manno, Authentication and Biometrics Laboratory Service Line manager and Abdarahmane Wone, Biometrics and Artificial Intelligence researcher at Fime, have...
 
Everest Foundation unveils ambitious biometrics-powered digital ID token project
The Everest Foundation (EF) has announced a new biometric-based digital ID and wallet project based on a tokenomics model. Available...
Striving for a fairer, more inclusive world – Turing Institute digital identity conference
Do countries need entirely new, purpose-built systems for digital ID rather than expanding existing systems? How reliable are algorithms? What...
 
Evernym acquisition sets next chapter for self-sovereign identity in Europe
There was big news in the world of self-sovereign digital identity last week, with the announcement of Avast acquiring Evernym....
Customer experience is shaping the usability of biometrics in banking
By Ján Lunter, the Founder and CEO of Innovatrics  The rapid acceleration of technology adoption and rising customer expectations over the...
 
Ping launches authorization, BIO-key updates panel for enterprise IAM
Ping Identity has launched dynamic authorization capabilities for its digital identity cloud platform to enable enterprises to control what users can...
Grabba and Todaq jointly launch decentralized biometric credentials SDK
Mobile biometrics provider Grabba and credential and access management provider Todaq have launched the jointly-developed GOTO decentralized digital identity product to the...
 
Academics, Oosto propose facial recognition, AI ethics guidance in new forum
A group of artificial intelligence ethicists and stakeholders took a step towards establishing a forum to advance AI guidelines and...
 
 
 
 
 
 
Events and Webinars
LEAP | Global Tech Event In Saudi Arabia
  February 1, 2022 - February 3, 2022
LEAP | Global Tech Event In Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia February 1-3, 2022 The largest tech event in history just...
Idemia’s Biometric Breakfast
  February 2, 2022 - February 2, 2022
Idemia’s Biometric Breakfast February 2, 2022 Vienna, Austria IDEMIA Biometric Devices’ next “Biometric breakfast” session will take place in Vienna,...
Border Security Conference
  February 7, 2022 - February 8, 2022
Border Security Conference February 7 – 8, 2021 London, UK With COVID-19 spreading across the globe, the security and integrity...
Border Management & Technologies Summit Asia
  March 15, 2022 - March 17, 2022
Border Management & Technologies Summit Asia Singapore March 15-17, 2022 The Border Management & Technologies Summit Asia conference and exhibition...
Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience Europe
  March 15, 2022 - March 17, 2022
Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience Europe Bucharest, Romania March 15-17, 2022 Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience Europe brings together leading...