Ethiopia rolls out student IDs, integrates biometric data to issue Fayda
Ethiopia’s National ID Program and Ministry of Education have announced that biometric digital ID has been adopted as the official…
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Ports and cruise ships bringing biometric systems on board
An accelerator program for firms working in maritime tech and seaport operations selected 12 companies to showcase during a demo…
C-level, senior appointments at Signicat, Authlete, World Privacy Forum
Following several recent international acquisitions, digital ID firm Signicat has appointed Michel van der Bogaard as its chief financial officer….
Blockchain-enabled biometric patent portfolio for sale
A wide-ranging patent portfolio covering blockchain-enabled multifactor biometric verification is available to be acquired through Hilco Streambank. A release from…
Deduce nets $9M investment to scale synthetic identity fraud prevention service
Investors have been betting heavily on generative AI, so it should come as no surprise that big money is also…
iProov partners for cryptography to beef up biometric MFA in 3 regions
iProov has partnered with Estonia’s Cybernetica to provide face biometrics for frictionless, device-agnostic multi-factor authentication to financial organizations and governments…
Canadian digital standards org wants porn bill to go harder on biometric age verification
The Digital Governance Standards Institute (DGSI) of Canada is proposing the adoption of a standard that specifies minimum requirements for…
New sales director to help IN Groupe grow in North American market
Surys and SPS, the secure components brands of French identity document firm, IN Groupe, have a new sales director. Lionel…
Passkeys get more uptake for enterprise, public sector applications
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management (OCI IAM) will support passkeys for passwordless authentication. Compliant with the FIDO2 standard,…
Worldcoin boom hits a wall in Kenya, despite CEO’s pleas
Worldcoin continues to push its iris-scanning biometric capture system in Kenya. This week it was reported that Alex Blania, the…
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