India’s digital public infrastructure reportedly not as popular with G7 nations
Since India assumed the G20 presidency in December, the country has been trying to promote its digital public infrastructure (DPI)…
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Kenya’s EU ambassador says biometric technology can help troubled Kenya Airways
Kenya’s ambassador to Belgium and the European Union, Bitange Ndemo, says that technologies such as artificial intelligence, including facial recognition…
vAIsual signs deal for Asian photos to increase biometric training data diversity
Source: Dragonimages.asia vAIsual, the company behind the largest visual dataset collection in the world, has signed a deal to access…
Digital identity company Intellicheck eyes Europe after ensuring GDPR compliance
U.S. digital identity company Intellicheck announced it has opened its path to the European market after determining its technology meets…
How will Europe make the EUDI secure: Cryptomathic weighs in
By the end of 2023, European countries have promised to offer their citizens the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI), an…
Singpass launches digital driver licenses for professionals, integrated by Okta
Singapore said goodbye to paper driver licenses for professional drivers, including taxi, private-hire car and bus drivers, after integrating the…
Armenia introduces new biometric passport issuance system, Albania choses new supplier
After halting the issuing of biometric passports last year until early 2024, Armenia has announced a new system for issuing…
Innovatrics introduces iris layer for liveness detection technology
Innovatrics has announced a new liveness detection technology called MagnifEye, which it claims can double the accuracy of liveness detection…
VisionLabs enters Vietnam as Russian biometrics developers seek new markets
Russian biometric company VisionLabs is entering the Vietnamese market, Russian news agency Tass reports. The company presented its technology at…
Switzerland to spend $27M on new multimodal biometric matching system
The Swiss government is earmarking 24.61 million Swiss francs (roughly US$27.18 million) for the renewal and upgrade of the country’s…
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