US immigration officials want everyone on same page before $500M biometric contract let
The U.S. government wants to hear from people about a virtual conference it plans to hold to talk about an…
Government Services
News, interviews and reports relating to government contracts for biometric systems used in eGovernment, border control, national security and national ID.
European digital ID must have further security safeguards, Czech EU presidency says
A couple of months after taking over from France as host of the presidency of the Council of the EU,…
Turkey to print Hungarian, French biometric passports
Turkey’s Interior Minister, Süleyman Soylu, has disclosed that the country has reached deals with Hungary and France to print their…
Dignari selected to provide digital identity and access management services to US gov for $29M
Security firm Dignari will provide the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) with identity,…
Digital transformation spurs new ID services provider in Thailand, development in Indonesia
Digital transformation ambitions are driving a series of digital identity developments in Asia, with Thai mobile network AIS announcing this…
A year on: UK Gov shares One Login digital identification program progress
A year after launching its program to develop One Login, a way to digitally identify oneself across government sites and…
UK begins trying to identify who owns its property and businesses
It took Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for UK authorities to start getting to grips with establishing the overseas owners of…
Estonia’s AI Govstack to help other countries digitalize, offer virtual admin assistant
Estonia has one of the most advanced digital identity schemes in the world, allowing its citizens to access government services…
Philippines toolkit will allow digitization, ID verification across local, national govt
UBX, an open finance subsidiary of Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank), has launched UrGovPH, a suite of open finance…
Nigeria ID4D continues partnership spree to meet digital ID ambitions
The Nigeria Digital Identification for Development project (Nigeria ID4D) and the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) have agreed to…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection