NSW Police face questions on use of facial recognition algorithm from 2011
Australia’s New South Wales Police used a legacy facial recognition algorithm for over a decade and declined repeated offers of…
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Bulgarian eID provider Evrotrust raises $7.5M
Bulgarian national electronic identity scheme provider Evrotrust has raised 6.6 million euros (US$7.5 million) in investment. The company is planning…
MOSIP advances tool for verifiable credential issuance with developer release
MOSIP is working on a way for issuers of digital ID documents and other credentials to generate, sign and issue…
Humanity Protocol’s reusable biometric ID adds Mastercard open finance capability
Humanity Protocol, the proof-of-personhood (PoP) framework based on palm biometrics, is teaming up with Mastercard to allow users to quickly…
Ethiopia, Zambia DPI teamwork example of South-South DPI cooperation
A World Bank expert has framed the recent move by Ethiopia and Zambia to share notes on the development of…
Signicat digs into identity fraud risks in remote onboarding, account recovery
Businesses are claiming success in battling identity fraud at a solid rate despite a spike in attempts, but Signicat’s latest…
South Africa trials govt data exchange platform modeled after Estonia’s X-Road
South Africa’s National Treasury is leading a year-long pilot for a data exchange platform labelled MzansiXchange within the framework of…
DIACC certifies ID verification for legal industry to Canada’s trust framework
There is now a certified option to ensure that client data handling by legal professionals in Canada will respect the…
New World Bank data shows 800M people worldwide still lack legal identity
An estimated 800 million people around the world still lack official proof of identity with many of them children whose…
CBP expands mobile facial recognition to local police through new app
On Monday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) quietly rolled out a new mobile face-scanning app called Mobile Identify for…
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