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By Joel R. McConvey

- Amid rising global interest in online age verification, Australia’s politicians are indulging in a bit of gamesmanship, with the coalition…

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By Bianca Gonzalez

- The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), the nation’s digital identity competition regulator, is issuing  a limited tender to build…

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By Joel R. McConvey

- Tech5, which provides biometrics and AI for digital identity management, will have its contactless fingerprint biometric capture and liveness detection…

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By Masha Borak

- Passwordless authentication methods such as biometric and PIN-based logins are gaining ground, according to research and the latest moves from…

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By Jim Nash

- Clearly appreciating that it was selling digital authentication to data-security officials in the inertia-guided U.S. federal bureaucracy, a FIDO Alliance…

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By Jim Nash

- A UK yearling startup says it has put a fused voice and face biometric algorithm in the field, in banks.…

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By Chris Burt

- Keyless is spinning out from Sift, two years after being acquired by the fraud management provider, and has also raised…

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By Bianca Gonzalez

- Reports from Liminal and Regula reveal fraud trends from 2023 and insights heading into 2024, while businesses focused on crypto…

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By Masha Borak

- Europe has a plan to prevent terrorist attacks on public transportation with video analytics algorithms, possibly but not necessarily including…

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By Bianca Gonzalez

- The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has published a guide outlining how biometric data should be used for access control,…

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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

- An ongoing process which started on November 12 to deactivate SIM cards not biometrically registered in Uganda has seen over…

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