Year: 2025

Senegal taps inspiration from Togo’s digital ID experience

Nov 3, 2025, 8:46 am EST

The Senegalese government is hoping to tap from Togo’s experience to build its digital ID system. A delegation from Dakar…

Nov 3, 2025, 7:34 am EST

When Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee turned her attention to PimEyes, a facial search engine that lets anyone upload…

Nov 3, 2025, 7:31 am EST

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today published a sweeping new proposed rule that…

Nov 3, 2025, 7:30 am EST

Next Biometrics has announced new orders of its flagship fingerprint sensor for two new customers enabling financial inclusion in Nigeria…

Nov 1, 2025, 2:45 pm EDT

Innovations in biometrics and digital identity are making their way into daily life, in the form of airport security checks…

Oct 31, 2025, 4:40 pm EDT

Senator Edward J. Markey, a senior member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, is urging Amazon to…

Oct 31, 2025, 4:38 pm EDT

The Trump administration quietly erased a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policy on facial recognition from its public website while…

Oct 31, 2025, 2:54 pm EDT

It has not been a quick fight for passkeys. In the theoretical prize fight between passwords – the grizzled old…

Oct 31, 2025, 2:52 pm EDT

Aadhaar, the world’s largest national digital identity scheme, is undergoing a technological and strategic review under the guidance of a…

Oct 31, 2025, 1:45 pm EDT

A new federal lawsuit accuses the New York City Police Department (NYPD) of operating an unconstitutional mass surveillance system that…