Many hands lift Nigerian digital ID effort, but some are actually making it harder
An uneasy balance is being struck in Nigeria in that nation’s progress toward universal digital identification for its 200 million…
Articles By Jim Nash
Jim Nash is a business journalist. His byline has appeared in The New York Times, Investors Business Daily, Robotics Business Review and other publications. You can find Jim on LinkedIn.
Maryland launches digital ID option for flight in and out of Washington airports
A second U.S. state is giving residents the option of adding a digital ID or mobile driving license to Apple’s…
Regulators, executives united in pushing for digital ID programs
There is a telling moment during one of this year’s Digital Monetary Institute panel discussions. The host of the digitalization…
Biometrics gross margins at Voxx reverse slide seen in fiscal 2021
Electronics maker Voxx International is reporting a fiscal 2022 gross margin of 21 percent in its biometrics line, a big…
Challenges for digital IDs, yes, but enticements among early adopters too
It is still a far piece until researchers have hard, comparable numbers on what digital IDs can contribute to or…
More tentative regulation of facial recognition in the US
Colorado is the latest government in the United States testing the idea of restricting use of facial recognition tools by…
Social-justice groups want AWS out of US’ massive biometric data project
Dozens of international domestic rights organizations are asking Amazon executives to reverse their decision to host a massive U.S. government…
A confusing present obscures the future of digital IDs
The difficulty in predicting the future of digital identities is that defining the present of digital identities is as hard…
Embarrassing slipup exposes dozens of personal profiles from Trust Stamp
The only situation worse than a data breach for a face biometrics security company is a dumb data breach. According…
Veridos breaks ground on Ugandan biometric ID document printing plant
There are five primary challenges nations face in going fully digital with IDs, according to one vendor. Veridos has published…
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