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Weekend Reading : Feb 1, 2025

AI agents usher in another emergent biometrics use case

Biometrics will be needed to backstop proof of humanity as AI agents join the online world, just as innovations in…Read More

Payments and identity converging in digital wallets

Digital wallets tend to be designed primarily for digital IDs or online payments, but as…

Clearview fights to give away 23% of facial recognition business

A U.S. district judge has heard arguments for and against approving the unusual settlement agreement…

Advocacy group calls on Trump administration to speed up digital identities

The Better Identity Coalition (BIC) sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency…

New plan, but same name for UK’s ‘digital centre of government’

The UK’s “digital centre of government” will be known as the Government Digital Service (GDS),…

UK age assurance shift driven by mDLs, regulation, public safety

Age assurance for online retail purchases is becoming increasingly common in the UK, as merchants…

DIF works toward standardized data scheme for age assurance credentials

Legislation and discussion on age assurance has exploded globally, with major regulatory shifts ongoing in…

Looking into the DEEP: Advancing Pakistan’s DPI

Pakistan is progressing toward a digitally empowered society, with initiatives such as the Digital Economy…

New civil registration law refocuses Cameroon’s push for SDG 16.9 legal ID target

Ornela Ndip is a 25-year-old internally displaced person (IDP) who fled her hometown of Kembong,…

China’s DeepSeek AI poses formidable cyber, data privacy threats

China’s DeepSeek AI model represents a transformative development in China’s AI capabilities, and its implications…

Funding, acquisitions

ID.me secures $275M credit facility to scale digital wallet

ID.me has closed a $275 million credit facility from funds operated by Ares Management, which also plans to invest a…Read More

Humanity Protocol raises $20M at $1.1B valuation

Humanity Protocol is following the recent launch of its Humanity Foundation with a new funding…

Quantum authentication firm Wultra raises US$3m

Quantum authentication technology is drawing the interest of European investors. Banking security vendor Wultra has…

Deepfake detection platform Deduce acquired by Cheq

Deduce, a platform designed to detect AI-generated identity fraud, has been acquired by cybersecurity company…

Northern Block and Sphereon merge to deliver digital credentials ‘across jurisdictions’

Northern Block, a digital trust infrastructure company, and Sphereon, a pioneer in verifiable credential technologies,…

Entrust sharpens cryptographic data security focus with public certificate divestment

Entrust has sold its public certificate business as it looks to develop certain core areas…

Contracts, tenders

Datasonic scores extensions for Malaysian biometric passport supply contracts

Malaysia’s Ministry of Home Affairs (KDN) has extended a contract for Datasonic to supply the chips used in its biometric…Read More

Deadline extended for Benin digital government transformation tender

A tender to support digital government transformation in Benin has been extended by two weeks.…

Data protection

Brazil bans TFH from offering compensation for biometric data

Brazil’s data watchdog has banned Tools of Humanity (TFH), the company behind digital identity project World, from offering cryptocurrency or…Read More

French privacy watchdog includes digital ID, AI and minor protection in strategic plan

Digital identity, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and protecting minors online will be the main areas of…

Québec Privacy Act sets ‘high legal threshold’ for biometric data collection

Québec could end up becoming the Illinois of Canada – at least in terms of…

Borders, ports, police

Expect shift in US border strategy to pay dividends for biometrics, surveillance tech providers

The expansion of technological tools in immigration enforcement represents a dramatic shift in how the United States government approaches border…Read More

Border projects see criticism on data sharing transparency

While governments and the travel industry continue to introduce new biometric technologies to border crossing,…

Eurostar’s SmartCheck shutting down, new EES e-gates coming to London

Rail service Eurostar will stop offering its SmartCheck biometric check-in at the London St Pancras…

Russia building terminal with end-to-end biometrics at Sochi airport

Russian authorities say they will build the country’s first fully biometric terminal at Sochi international…

Thailand rolling out AI surveillance system after high-profile kidnapping of Chinese actor

Thailand is boosting security in its tourism centers with a smart city system with AI-powered…

Judge throws out Clearview facial recognition match in US murder case

A judge in Cleveland, Ohio has dismissed a facial recognition match murder case after determining…

Trump executive order requires full implementation of DNA fingerprint law

Last Week, President Donald Trump reignited debate over the implementation of the DNA Fingerprint Act…

Digital ID, wallets

Nigeria launching multiuse biometric ID card to drive economic, financial inclusion

Nigeria’s National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has announced the imminent launch of a General Multipurpose Card (GMPC) that will support…Read More

Digital ID has central place in digital economy

Convenience is king, even in identity verification. Customers want to be able to prove their…

Belgian digital identity app Itsme becomes free for Flemish public sector

Belgian digital identity app Itsme will be free for Flemish municipalities, government services and schools…

EWC brings update on EUDI Wallet pilots

The European Union is currently conducting four Large-Scale Pilots (LSPs) which will lay down the…

Idaho may be next with mDLs

A bill has been introduced in Idaho’s state legislature by its House Transportation and Defense…

Veridos celebrates 40M digital ID issuance milestone in Iraq

German secure identity solutions provider Veridos says its longstanding partnership with the Iraqi government to…

Malaysia to launch national digital ID super-app

Malaysia is launching what it terms a “national digital identity ecosystem” called the MyDigital ID…

Court judgement paves way for national ID issuance to over 40k ‘persecuted’ Kenyans

A High Court in Kenya recently delivered a judgement which could end years of ordeal…

Nepal integrates national ID with digital govt app to expand public service access

The Nepalese government recently integrated the national ID system with a digital government application dubbed…

MOSIP

BixeLab first officially accredited for MOSIP MACP biometric device testing

BixeLab has been officially accredited by MOSIP, the Modular Open Source Identity Platform, as the first laboratory qualified to perform…Read More

CMU-Africa digital ID hackathon round 2 open; MOSIP blog reveals round 1 winners

The series of digital ID hackathons hosted by Carnegie Mellon University Africa’s Upanzi Network and…

Zambia issues general procurement notice for digital ID, trust services project

The SMART Zambia Institute (SMART Zambia) – the government body leading the country’s digital transformation…

Synthetic identity

Synthetic identities drive need for enhanced fraud prevention in Africa

A comprehensive new report from identity verification vendor Smile ID digs into critical digital identity fraud trends across Africa. A…Read More

No longer taking phone calls? An AI assistant or liveness detection could help

If some among us have stopped picking up the phone because of scam calls, it’s…

GenAI fueling employee impersonation with biometric spoofs and counterfeit ID fraud

A new report on the state of identity fraud has revealed the startling statistic that…

Announcements

Smartphone biometrics are Next focus market in strategic pivot

Next Biometrics is moving into the smartphone market with technology to enable fingerprint authentication anywhere on the screen of the…Read More

Rheinmetall Dermalog SensorTec provides facial recognition for gun safe

Biometrics for digital identity come with risks, but they are unlikely to get you shot.…

OpenAI launches new AI agent Operator that can perform tasks independently

AI agents have garnered attention as a technology to watch in 2025. While Microsoft, Google,…

Mobile Regula ID document scanner launched to detect face morphing

Regula has introduced a compact, lightweight ID document scanner to enable immigration and border control…

Idemia PS launches comprehensive latent fingerprint biometrics cloud software

Idemia Public Security North America has introduced software for latent fingerprint biometrics that the company…

AuthID’s PrivacyKey addresses privacy, compliance concerns over biometrics

An announcement from AuthID says the identity verification and authentication provider has launched PrivacyKey, a…

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