Mandatory MFA across governments makes for maze of regulations
Passwordless authentication is an ongoing sparring match between the quest to simplify identity verification for logins and the punchback of…
Government Services
News, interviews and reports relating to government contracts for biometric systems used in eGovernment, border control, national security and national ID.
Key US lawmakers ask for more info on NIST’s Digital Identity Guidelines
Three U.S. lawmakers with sway over federal technology policies asked the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology…
Global partnerships strengthen Kyrgyzstan’s digital identity and credentials
Kyrgyzstan has set a path toward digital transformation, highlighting digital identity as one of the main components of its national…
Report: Synthetic identity fraud is growing
A new U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on its recent audit of the US Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Electronic…
The benefits that come with remote biometric verification for pensioners
With the digital transformation train travelling at supersonic speed, every sector wants to get onboard. This is reflected in the…
Vietnam integrates national digital ID and tax system
Vietnam wants to enable all of its taxpayers to log into the country’s online taxation platforms with their electronic identification…
Kazakhstan launching national system for remote biometric authentication
Kazakhstan is establishing a national system for remote biometric authentication, which will serve as a single base for biometric data…
Ethiopia kicks off digital ID enrolment drive in Addis Ababa
A month-long digital ID enrollment campaign gets underway in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, today October 10 in a move…
Login.gov certified for IAL2 by Kantara with selfie biometrics addition
An identity verification system with selfie biometrics for the U.S. General Services Administration’s Login.gov single-sign on service has been certified…
Cyprus okays rollout of first 100k digital IDs to facilitate govt transactions
The Cypriot government has approved the issuance of 100,000 digital IDs, with 30,000 of them to be given free of…
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