UK prisons implementing biometrics for safe prisoner self-service
Digital transformation including biometrics is coming to UK prisons to create a better environment with improved safety and greater access…
Government Services
News, interviews and reports relating to government contracts for biometric systems used in eGovernment, border control, national security and national ID.
VoiceTrust joins Horizon2020 partnership to develop new biometric platform SpeechXrays
VoiceTrust has been accepted as a member of a EU Horizon2020 program in which a group of organizations is working…
Optimism for universal identity abounds as ID4Africa 2018 concludes
ID4Africa 2018 wrapped up Thursday in Abuja, Nigeria, with a series of plenary sessions, providing a series of reasons for…
Dialogue focuses on concrete results during ID4Africa Day 2
The second day of the annual conference of the ID4Africa movement featured passionate addresses on a wide variety of topics…
ID4Africa 2018 begins with optimism over continental progress toward universal legal identity
The first day of ID4Africa 2018 drew to a successful close late in the day in Abuja, Nigeria, with hundreds…
Gemalto wins British passport contract
Gemalto announced it has won an open tender for the production of the next generation of British passports. The contract…
iProov wins contract with CBP for self-serve passenger entry facial recognition tech
UK-based iProov has been selected by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program…
Singapore to pilot smart city facial recognition project
Singapore government agency GovTech is planning to perform crowd analytics with facial analysis from a “Lamppost-as-a-Platform” (LaaP) pilot project, Reuters…
Zimbabwe govt selects CloudWalk for mass facial recognition project
CloudWalk Technology has signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with the government of Zimbabwe to provide facial recognition for a…
De La Rue appeals decision to award post-Brexit passport contract to Gemalto
British security printing company De La Rue has launched an appeal of the UK government’s decision to award the post-Brexit…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
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