GDPR successfully meets data privacy objectives, UK’s reopen plan lacks data protection guidance
Two years after it came into effect, 69 percent of Europe’s residents aged 16 and over are familiar with GDPR…
Government Services
News, interviews and reports relating to government contracts for biometric systems used in eGovernment, border control, national security and national ID.
Biometrics industry urges support for public-private partnerships in ID4Africa webinar
Biometric processes from enrollment to authentication in various settings will be different for the foreseeable future, attendees heard in the…
Spanish data protection regulator targets 14 misconceptions about biometrics in technical note
Unauthorized access to biometric data in one system would allow the biometrics to be used in the rest of systems…
Southeast Asian countries leverage digital ID and IT infrastructure for cashless aid during pandemic
Efforts by Singapore’s government to prepare the island nation’s digital infrastructure, including its national digital identity system, helped it cope…
‘Certain narratives were exposed’ in national ID systems, development experts tell ID4Africa webinar
Universal digital identity coverage could be achieved within the next two years, if shifts in political will and recognition of…
Myanmar closes delayed biometrics tender amid funding confusion, data protection laws still absent
The government of Myanmar has carried out a tender process for a biometric database for mobile phone subscribers, alarming civil…
Haryana reinstatement of biometric authentication for state aid upheld by state high court
A legal challenge of the use of biometrics for distribution of rations and other state aid in the Indian state…
Plans for digital identity provider participation in UK government system partially revealed
Indications of the UK Government Digital Service’s (GDS’s) plans for digital identity after the expected sunset of its Gov.uk Verify…
Trinidad and Tobago, Korea, and Belarus governments advance ID credential plans
The Roadmap to Recovery team within Trinidad and Tobago’s government has recommended fast-tracking the country’s digital identity plans to support…
Group says governments can push private sector AI ethics through procurements
A global think tank is reminding governments that they can indirectly impose ethical practices and standards on the woolly artificial…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
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