Idemia chips power St Kitts and Nevis’s new digital ID cards
St Kitts and Nevis’s new electronic identification (eID) system will be equipped with technology from Idemia. The Caribbean dual-island nation…
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Masha Borak is a technology journalist. Her work has appeared in Wired, Business Insider, Rest of World, and other media outlets. Previously she reported for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. Reach out to her at masha@biometricupdate.com.
UK digital ID companies raised $1B since 2015
The UK digital identity market has generated £2.05 billion (US$2.5 billion) annual revenue during the 2023-2024 fiscal year while the…
Vietnam reaches 70M enrolled in biometric national ID database
Vietnam has successfully enrolled 70 million citizens into its national ID database over the last two years thanks to a…
Cryptographers warn about EUDI Wallet privacy
The European digital identity project, which aims to give each EU resident a digital wallet by 2026, is seeing more…
UK govt backs down on immigration document reform
While the UK is busy with pushing digital ID initiatives it is also slowing down on other planned identification reforms. …
Israel keeps emergency biometrics measures in place, more than a year into Gaza war
Last year, on October 7th, a Hamas attack on Israel plunged the country into a war against Gaza that would…
Lissi enters final stage of German EUDI wallet prototype competition
Digital ID wallet maker Lissi has qualified for the final phase of the German government competition to create a national…
South Wales police try on-demand facial recognition app
Police in South Wales and Gwent will become the first police units in the UK to use mobile apps with…
Dock introduces credentials recovery, lands new deal with Hong Kong financial sector
Reusable digital identity platform Dock has added a new feature that will allow users to recover their credentials quickly with…
Keyless, Digidentity, Ping Identity announce new integration partnerships
While Keyless and Microblink join Microsoft and Google’s marketplaces, Digidentity finds its way to a UK government supplier list. Keyless…
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