Public-private partnerships showcased in airport biometrics adoption
Digital identity projects for national ID and border control are being initiated or advanced by governments around the world, creating…
Civil / National ID
Civil ID is used to identify or verify the identity of individuals when interacting with governments, though increasingly it is also used for regulated private industries, such as mobile phone accounts. Government examples of civil ID use could include document issuance, border management, voter registration or employment background checks. Find Civil ID solutions here.
Hitachi and Digital Trust Networks test biometric system based on ADI’s open framework
Hitachi and Digital Trust Networks have tested a biometric solution based on the Accountable Digital Identity Association (ADIA) 1.0 Specification….
FMI identifies biometric passport trends as U.S. announces new document design
A new report from Future Market Insights (FMI) has suggested the global electronic passport market may increase from a valuation…
Web of connected players could complicate Cameroon’s biometric ID card tender: report
Augentic seems like a natural contender for the biometric ID card tender launched by Cameroon’s government last year, given its…
Microsoft urges enterprises to start exploring decentralized digital ID use cases
Microsoft is thinking about decentralized digital IDs, and it would like its customers to do the same. A marketing piece…
Security agencies granted access to Nigeria’s biometric database; Buhari faces lawsuit
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), a nonprofit advocacy group, has filed a lawsuit against Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari…
8M overseas Pakistanis register for digital ID, pensioners face more biometric checks
More than 8.2 million Pakistanis abroad who hold the National Identity Card for Overseas Pakistanis (NICOP) have registered with the…
Biometrics registration for Zambia’s new national ID system underway
Zambia’s parliament has been told that work to put in place a new biometric ID system dubbed the Integrated National…
China to introduce digital ID cards nationwide
China’s Prime Minister Li Keqiang has said the country will in the course of this year introduce the digital ID…
ICAO pilots travelers’ digital ID verification upgrades with PKD support
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has unveiled a new pilot project to authenticate travelers’ electronic and digital IDs. The…
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