Chastened IRS plays down biometrics for taxpayers, starts service for tax preparers
If anyone thought the U.S. Internal Revenue Service’s biometrics headache would abate after it backtracked on a remote authentication function,…
Government Services
News, interviews and reports relating to government contracts for biometric systems used in eGovernment, border control, national security and national ID.
Conference proposes biometrics-based documentation for Central African Republic refugees
Six countries hosting forcibly displaced persons from the Central African Republic (CAR) have agreed to takes steps aimed at issuing…
Biometrics funding and contracts bringing opportunity also mean more scrutiny
The public announcement of a French digital ID app supplied by Idemia and partners which avoids biometrics, and a tender…
Sri Lanka ready to launch biometrics registration for digital identity scheme
The capture of biometrics for the issuance of digital ID cards in Sri Lanka is likely to begin soon, according…
France announces user-controlled mobile digital identity app for use with national ID
France announces a new system for proving digital identity via a smartphone, while formally discontinuing the ill-fated Alicem app of 2019….
NEC enrolls biometrics of 50M Vietnamese for ID authentication
Around 50 million Vietnamese have had their biometrics captured for ID authentication as the country is modernizing its digital ID…
Ex-bureaucrat says fraud can be cut and fed’s broken digital ID management fixed
A former U.S. government official writing about meaningfully minimizing fraud perpetrated at the federal and state levels has accomplished something…
Canadians weigh in on national digital ID with urgency, trust, fear
Opinion writers and industry figures in Canada offered a range of thoughts on the country’s inclusion of a national digital…
Ethiopia issues second tender for biometric registration hardware for digital ID enrollment
Ethiopia is accepting bids to supply and install biometric registration kits for use in the establishment of the country’s national…
US seeks input for biometrics equity study to determine course of remote government access
The U.S. government is asking for contributions to a study into equity in remote identity proofing for Login.gov, attempting to…
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