Channel Islands begin accepting French ID cards, quietly drop Brexit entry requirements for CTA
Jersey has been given UK permission to run a pilot over the summer to allow French day-trippers to visit the…
Articles By Frank Hersey
Frank Hersey is a London-based reporter and podcast producer for Biometric Update. He previously covered biometric and digital identity issues in Africa from Côte d’Ivoire. Before that he covered tech news in China from Beijing. He has worked for the BBC, RFI and France 24.
Bill Gates visits MOSIP, gets the T-shirt, discusses financial inclusion via the platform
Bill Gates has visited MOSIP (Modular Open Source Identity Platform) in its hometown Bangalore for presentations on the project’s progress…
Ghana re-announces issuance of ID numbers to babies, Uganda to register citizen school children
Babies born in Ghana on or after 31 March 2023 will be issued with a Ghana Card number, perhaps, whereas…
Lloyds Banking Group invests £10M in Yoti for new digital ID for all to launch this year
London-based digital identity provider Yoti is getting a £10 million (US$11.9 million) investment from Lloyds Banking Group to support new…
Stamps and surveillance: Macron seeks to delay EES biometrics until after Olympics
French president Emmanuel Macron intends to delay the introduction of the biometric Entry Exist System (EES) until after the Paris…
‘New and improved’ UK GDPR to save £4.7B over ten years, ensure data adequacy
When the UK left the European Union, it effectively copy pasted the GDPR to create the near identical UK GDPR….
EU AI Act definition of AI aligns with OECD definition, biometric risk updated
The European Union Artificial Intelligence Act could be taking a significant stride forward as the European Parliament agrees on what…
Understanding the EU Digital Identity Wallets’ Architecture Reference Framework
As European Union citizens await a transformation in how they create and handle their identities and personal data, how they…
1Kosmos launches cloud-based sandbox for testing passwordless MFA platform
Identity and access management (IAM) services continue to flourish as companies and public organizations seek to secure their systems, equipment…
Yoti passes iBeta Level 2 presentation attack detection test with 100% detection rate
Digital ID firm Yoti’s proprietary passive liveness technology, MyFace, saw off every attempted presentation attack during testing by iBeta, earning…
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