Kenya’s national ID project Huduma Namba was a topic of much discussion at ID4Africa 2019 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The…
Features and Interviews
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Omidyar Network hopes to ensure African digital ID is ‘Good ID’
The philanthropic investment outfit Omidyar Network has taken a keen interest in the development of ID systems in Africa. It…
HYPR partnership brings no-shared secret authentication to ForgeRock
HYPR Corp has announced a partnership with ForgeRock it says could enable enterprises to secure a billion identities by eliminating…
MasterCard and Orange: why global brands are delving into African biometrics
The speed at which African nations are implementing biometric systems for national ID and electoral rolls has created something of…
Two ideas to break down vendor lock-in in foundational biometric ID systems launch at ID4Africa 2019
A lack of interoperability and vendor lock-in are long-standing barriers to successful identification systems in many places around the world,…
Infant biometrics in the spotlight at ID4Africa 2019
Among the highlights of the second day of ID4Africa 2019 in Johannesburg, South Africa, was a packed and at time…
Airport biometrics adoption itinerary explored by diverse stakeholders
It has been almost 20 years since the late Max Snijder led the deployment of iris biometrics at Schiphol Airport…
EKG biometrics from B-Secur to be featured in 2020 car models
B-Secur CEO Alan Foreman is meeting with four major U.S. auto manufacturers to pitch the inclusion of the company’s EKG…
How many billions are the last billion’s biometrics worth?
Earlier in the maturation of biometrics as a digital technology and an industry, providing identification in the developing world was…
Novel techniques that can ‘trick’ object detection systems sounds familiar alarm
Security engineers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) early this month announced they’d been able to develop “new adversarial techniques” that…
