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Ghana pauses early block on mobile subscribers as biometric SIM registration draws criticism

Telecoms in Ghana have been instructed to stop blocking SIM cards, roughly a week after they were due to begin…

 

iProov contributes face biometrics to consortium piloting payments with EU digital ID wallet

iProov has joined a digital ID wallet consortium to participate in the launch of a pan-European payments pilot utilizing the…

 

Nigeria finds more ineligible registries in latest biometric deduplication round

The latest round of biometric deduplication by Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has discovered many multiple and ineligible registrations…

 

Jamaica to issue free birth certificates ahead of national digital ID enrollment drive

Jamaica has launched what it calls ‘Operation Birthright,’ a campaign intended to issue free birth certificates to as many as…

 

Thales hires hundreds in US, Precise Biometrics and Socure promote within

Several leading companies in the biometric space have expanded their teams over the course of last week, with Thales confirming…

 

Daon’s voice biometrics launch on Genesys enterprise cloud marketplace

Daon’s voice biometrics platform IdentityX is now available on the Genesys AppFoundry marketplace, an online platform offering a curated selection…

 

New biometric cards partnerships for Idex Biometrics, Sentry Enterprises

Idex Biometrics has entered a new partnership with eSignus that will see the companies jointly develop and market biometric cards…

 

ID Day coalition grows by 45 percent, new slogan adopted

September 16 will be the fourth International Identity Day, and marks a significant jump in the numbers of organizations supporting…

 

Enterprise biometric security options increase with new partnerships

Several companies in the biometric space have announced new channel and distribution partnerships. Hummingbirds AI  joined the Panasonic XCELERATE software…

 

Big court date coming up fast for a BIPA case involving statute of limitations

That those opposed to the U.S. state of Illinois’ biometric privacy law are placing so much importance on secondary provisions…

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