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By Jim Nash

- A nongovernmental organization being described as an investigative collective is adding to the warnings about the security of some Chinese…

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By Masha Borak

- Biometric registration and payment authentication company IrisGuard will help over 280,000 refugees in Iraq receive humanitarian cash assistance by scanning…

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By William McCurdy

- Alice Biometrics says it is the first software company approved by Spain’s National Cryptologic Center to meet the agency's highest…

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By Masha Borak

- Indian law enforcement agencies will be able to access and share biometric fingerprint data with the country’s National Automated Fingerprint…

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By William McCurdy

- The Identity Security Alliance (IDSA), a non-profit group of identity and security vendors, solution providers, and practitioners, has found that…

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By William McCurdy

- Instances of deepfake fraud doubled in North America between 2022 and Q1 2023 according to a new report from London-based…

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By Alessandro Mascellino

- Norwegian fingerprint biometric solutions provider Idex has entered a new collaboration with Taiwan-based, FIDO2-certified firm AuthenTrend. In particular, the companies…

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By Alessandro Mascellino

- The Ukrainian mobile app Diia has emerged as a vital tool for citizens amidst the ongoing conflict with Russia. The…

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By Masha Borak

- As the debates over the AI Act heats up, the European Union’s data protection watchdog has published its final set…

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By Paul Trulove

- By Paul Trulove, CEO at SecureAuth Every user in today’s digital world has almost certainly encountered federated identities, but few…

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Digital Identity in Developing Nations

With UN SDG 16.9 calling for legal identity for all by 2030, Biometric Update is taking a special in-depth focus on digital ID projects in developing countries.

By Ayang Macdonald

- The various options available when it comes to identity verification at population scale for access to services, the challenges as…

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