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E-scooter fatality shows gap in remote ID check process for age restrictions
The unfortunate death of a 12-year old boy in England has highlighted the difficulties with enforcing age restrictions using remote...
 
Anti-porn age verification for minors in UK and US attracts data protection criticism
The UK’s Online Safety Bill, is now set to force all platforms hosting pornographic material operating in the UK to...
Pakistan ID agency head resigns, citing ‘polarized political environment’
The chairman of Pakistan’s digital ID agency NADRA, Tariq Malik, has resigned from his position in the wake of a...
 
Fingerprint Cards appoints new CEO amid lukewarm financials and diversification push
Fingerprint Cards AB has appointed Adam Philpott as its new President and CEO starting from September 1, 2023. Previously, Adam...
US facial recognition developers jockey for position in NIST accuracy testing
U.S. developers do not appear among the first seven algorithms of the leaderboard for the Face Recognition Vendor Test for...
 
Deepfake fraud fears mount after Progress Corp hack
Fears are mounting among some commentators about the rise of deepfake scams, following the hack of U.S. file transfer software...
Frontex sees 5 new biometric techs to use on borders
EU officials have identified still-developing technologies and techniques that research indicates will be key to well-functioning borders. Biometric research presented...
 
EU weighs decoupling biometric travel database for EES from ETIAS
A policy analysis document has revealed potential plans to decouple two planned EU databases both containing biometric information, the Entry/Exit...
Jordan reaches half a million activated digital identities
Half a million individuals in Jordan have successfully activated their digital identities in the country’s official digital ID verification application,...
 
Kenya digitizes 5k government services, to issue digital IDs ‘in next 90 days’
Up to 5,000 government services in Kenya can now be accessed through digital means after President William Ruto launched a...
Nigeria issues 5M more digital IDs in six months, plans special cards for the elderly
Nigeria’s National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has revealed that it enrolled 5,935,362 people for the National Identification Number (NIN) from...
 
Cameroon PM announces major reforms to national ID system as issuance backlog swells
Cameroon’s Prime Minister Dr. Joseph Dion Ngute told lawmakers on Friday June 30 that a new national digital ID card...
EU countries have right to record biometrics on ID cards, says top court adviser
The European Union’s top court is soon set to decide on whether including fingerprint data on identity cards is against...
 
Philippines connects homeless to government services with biometrics, ID cards
The Philippines Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Oplan Pag-Abot Project is intended to establish a central database of...
The imperative for responsible use of biometrics
By Youzec Kurp, VP Identity & Biometric Solutions at Thales In today’s digital age, biometric technologies have emerged as powerful...
 
With DNA comes a new level of security
By Corinna Schindler, Head of Verification at Veridos Biometric identification solutions have become firmly established in our everyday lives, whether...
  Women in Identity appoints new executive lead
  HireRight expands biometric capabilities with acquisition of DTIS
  Zinc raises £5M to expand global, reusable background checks
  Mastercard approves BCC to issue Zwipe biometric payment cards
  Keyless now ISO/IEC 27001 compliant, HID gets SOC 2 Type 2 certification
  Privy opens Sydney office to build digital trust between Indonesia and Australia
  Worldcoin says SDK lets you prove you’re a human online. Coins not included
  VisionLabs introduces anti-deepfake tech, clinches deal for govt biometric system
  Biofire will avoid triggering regulation as biometric ‘Smart Gun’ reaches pre-orders
  Jumio ID verification on Airbnb goes global as Regula, Yoti, Veriff unveil integrations
Biometrics White Papers
iProov Biometric Threat Intelligence Report 2023
As face verification gains traction and becomes more prevalent, threat actors are developing evermore sophisticated ways to circumvent these systems...
 
Using biometric technology to fight public sector benefit fraud
The pandemic caused a scramble to digitize typically in-person services in order to provide extensive financial aid to those in...
Multispectral imaging (MSI) fingerprint technology
Organizations increasingly rely on digital technologies to validate identities for secure interactions and services such as banking transactions, medication dispensing,...
 
The ultimate retail experience starts with facial recognition
As digital transformation sweeps across our society, bringing together the physical and virtual worlds, the retail space is changing in...
Events and Webinars
Zero Trust Government Symposium
  July 19, 2023 - July 20, 2023
Digital Transformation via Open Public Stacks
  July 20, 2023 - July 21, 2023
4th Annual Digital Forensics for National Security Symposium
  August 2, 2023 - August 3, 2023
Cyber DSA 2023
  August 15, 2023 - August 17, 2023
BIOSIG 2023 – 22nd international conference of the biometrics special interest group
  September 20, 2023 - September 22, 2023
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