Biometrics in healthcare, mobile authentication, Aadhaar, Biometrics2015 and more top stories
Here is a recap of the most popular biometrics industry news that appeared on BiometricUpdate.com this past week. Biometrics 2015:…
Elections
Biometric systems are being increasingly deployed to ensure a fair and efficient election. These systems include identification solutions for voter registration, voting, tallying and identification. Common modalities include fingerprint recognition, palm vein recognition, iris recognition and facial recognition. Mobile voting systems are also included.
Facial recognition used on Ghana voters list: NPP claims to have found 76k fake voters
Ghanaian opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) claims that the party used facial recognition technology to discover that there are 76,000…
Nigerian government recommends unified biometric data collection and usage
Upon reading a briefing on the activities of the National Population Commission (NPC), Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari recommended that government…
Pakistan to trial biometrics in upcoming by-election
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) announced it will conduct its first pilot project using biometric machines at 30 polling…
Philippines calls on celebrities to promote biometric enrollment for upcoming election
The Philippines’ Commission on Elections (Comelec) has called on celebrities to encourage their fans on social media to register their…
Iris ID to provide iris recognition solution for African nation’s electoral process
Iris ID announced that the government of an unnamed African nation has selected its iris recognition solution, IrisAccelerator, to help…
GenKey releases cloud-based version of biometric ID management solution
Identity and election management solutions firm GenKey announced that it has released a new version of its SPiRE solution, a…
Nigerian election successful despite biometric voting hiccups
Last week’s presidential election in Nigeria represented the first peaceful, fully democratic transition of power and has been labelled the…
Technical issues with fingerprint readers delay Nigeria’s presidential election
Some of Nigeria’s newly-introduced mobile fingerprint identification readers failed to allow citizens to cast their ballots during the country’s presidential…
Afghanistan government continues to see delays for biometric identification card
The introduction of biometric identification cards could prevent voter fraud in Afghanistan’s elections and ultimately make it a more fair…
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