Tanzania leverages increased knowledge and skill to move toward universal biometric identity
Tanzania hosted the inaugural meeting of the ID4Africa movement in 2015. Much has changed since then in the identity ecosystem…
Features and Interviews
Biometric Update offers exclusive features and executive interviews along with forward-looking, systematic data about the global biometrics market. Read our exclusive ID4Africa coverage.
DHS OIG auditing CBP’s biometric air exit system and overstay data reliability
Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) efforts to develop and implement a biometric exit capability is being investigated by the Department…
Long term guidance key to leveraging technology for financial inclusion in Africa
One of the informational sessions at ID4Africa 2018 explored how robust and affordable identity schemes can function as key enablers…
Making digital ID a tool for inclusion in Cameroon elections
Voter registrations are an important challenge for national identity systems, demanding accuracy, completeness, and verifiability to provide the assurance necessary…
Biometric ‘doomsday scenarios’ identified by cyber IoT expert
A leading Israeli cybersecurity expert warns there are three worse case scenarios he envisions with the expansion of biometrics, especially…
Biometrics industry responds to mass enrollment challenges at ID4Africa exhibition
The exhibition hall at ID4Africa 2018 in Abuja, Nigeria featured a new event high of 113 companies providing a wide…
Questions regarding use of biometrics in AI raised during federally sponsored forum
Concerns about privacy, including ways in which biometrics used in artificial intelligence (AI) could be used by law-enforcement agencies to…
Neurotechnology identifies more than 6 million duplicate or inaccurate DRC voter records
More than five million duplicate voter registrations in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been identified by Neurotechnology in a…
New White House ID security directive for federal agencies comes as audits find access controls lacking
All US federal agencies must be able to identify, credential, monitor, and manage user access to information and information systems…
Congress, states don’t seem inclined to incorporate biometrics in new voting technologies
While other nations are rapidly incorporating biometrics into their voting technologies, the US Congress and states – and local jurisdictions…
