West Virginia, Idemia, Samsung expand mDL’s digital wallet support
The American landscape for mobile driver’s licenses is like an 18-wheeler transport truck: big, slow to accelerate and building momentum…
Year: 2025
Expert body set up to drive Nigeria’s financial inclusion amid digital trade gains
Nigeria is banking on financial inclusion as one of the avenues to usher in a stronger digital economy for the…
Biometrics opportunities knocking, but not everyone is at the right door
There is clearly money to made in biometrics to support government services and payments, but also plenty of risk, especially…
Mastercard and Feedzai partner in fraud prevention
Mastercard is partnering with Feedzai to make it easier for more banks to identify and stop scams. Scams cost more…
Netherlands introducing more digital ID login options
The use of Dutch national digital identity DigiD has risen in 2024, with more than 550 million log-ins. The European…
Meta insists app stores, not apps, are the best place for age assurance measures
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta continues to lead the push to make app stores responsible for age assurance, in a thinly-veiled campaign…
Equipped with top-tier biometric tech, Florida police asked to sub for ICE
A recent webinar from Idemia looks at how its cloud-native automated biometric identification system (ABIS) has impacted law enforcement in…
St. Petersburg plans to introduce ethnicity recognition to monitor migrants
The Russian city of St. Petersburg plans to equip 8,000 cameras with ethnicity recognition capabilities to monitor its migrant population,…
Russia spends $1B on video surveillance purchases
In 2024, the Russian state increased purchases of video surveillance systems to 130.1 billion rubles (US$1.4 billion). However, the share…
Thailand biometric immigration clearance system needs capacity upgrade
The Immigration Bureau of Thailand has told lawmakers that it is currently working to increase the database capacity of its…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
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