Aadhaar facial recognition on track for July 1 as fresh breach allegation leveled and denied
Facial recognition will be available as a means of authentication for Aadhaar users beginning on July 1, 2018, Unique Identification…
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.
Uganda biometric refugee registration program faces scale and funding hurdles
Uganda’s biometric registration program for refugees in the country has verified the identity of 11,684 out of an estimated 1.4…
Oxfam weighs use of biometrics for humanitarian aid in new report
The recent Rohingya crisis response in Bangladesh illustrates the polarizing nature of a debate over the value of using biometrics…
Ipsidy reports earnings, wins contract to provide de-duplication for Zimbabwe voter rolls
Ipsidy has reported earnings of $2.3 million in 2017, a 21 percent increase from $1.9 million in 2016, though its…
Iris recognition integration with Chinese national ID scheme proposed
Lawmakers in China have suggested that the country’s national identity system should be expanded to include iris recognition at the…
UN agencies and civil society groups warn EU against coercive collection of children’s biometrics
A group of UN agencies and civil society organizations have published a joint statement against the use of coercion to…
Deadline for linking Aadhaar with bank accounts and mobile phones extended
India’s Supreme Court has indefinitely extended the deadline for linking Aadhaar numbers with bank accounts and mobile phones, which had…
India’s Electoral Commission seeks mandatory seeding of voter ID with Aadhaar number
India’s Electoral Commission has filed a request with the Supreme Court to make linking Aadhaar numbers with voter ID cards…
Jamaica says biometrics program will help reduce identity theft
Government spokesperson Jacqueline Lynch-Stewart said that biometric data collected under Jamaica’s National Identification System (NIDS) will assist in reducing incidents…
ePassport digital signatures still can’t be verified by CBP
Since 2010 when a Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit discovered the security lapse, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) “still does…
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