Indonesia, Philippines, Kenya contend with digital inclusion, South Korea extends verification
Authorities in South Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines and Kenya are contending with multiple aspects of digital identity. South Korea plans…
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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.
Onfido and INTERPOL train US officers on biometric passport fraud
A training session on recognizing fraudulent travel identity documents jointly held by INTERPOL’s Counterfeit Currency and Security Documents (CCSD) unit…
Spain and Germany to test cross-border digital ID
The Governments of Spain and Germany recently signed an agreement to develop a joint cross-border pilot program for digital ID,…
Identity experts challenge the notion of new digital ID systems
What do we want from digital ID? And is it the solution for problems faced by societies across the world?…
Mobile driver’s licenses and health IDs merging as part of a new digital wallet
In an interesting coincidence, a Chinese digital health pass is gaining broader mobile ID capabilities as a Utah mobile ID…
PSA completes biometrics registration of 20M Filipinos, NSIA processes more than 5M applications
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) has recently completed the Step 2 biometric registration of more than 20 million residents for…
Using digital ID to screen potential employees in the UK
Two stakeholders coming from different perspectives are encouraging the United Kingdom towards the adoption of a digital ID-focused screening process…
New South Wales’ digital identity advisory council seeks to balance privacy, fraud protection
The government of the Australian State of New South Wales has appointed 18 members to the Digital Identity Ministerial Advisory…
Innovatrics adds offline MRZ-reading to biometric onboarding solution
Innovatrics has added offline parsing of ID documents’ machine-readable zones (MRZs) to its biometric Digital Onboarding Toolkit (DOT) mobile components for…
Digital health passes worldwide: progress, setbacks and still a void in the US
Authorities around the world are rushing to provide ways their citizens can prove their COVID-19 status both at home and…
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