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Acuant joins DIACC, Paiblock and Infineon launch digital ID solutions for government services

Digital government services continue to be a hot topic, with Acuant joining the group leading Canada’s digital ID efforts, a…

 

Mastercard biometric digital identity service selected by Australian telecom for all channels

Mastercard has partnered with Australian telecom Optus to integrate the payments company’s biometrically-secured digital identity service ‘ID’ with its mobile, voice,…

 

UNECA expert highlights importance of digital ID for Africa’s post COVID-19 economy

The Lead Advisor for the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA’s) Digital Centre of Excellence, Tunde Fafunwa, has explained…

 

SAFR and VSBLTY face biometrics deployed for crowd customer safety and insights

Partnerships on facial recognition and computer vision technologies have been formed by RealNetworks and VSBLTY, and Patriot One has announced…

 

NIST issues new PIV standards including rules for digital IDs

The U.S. government has issued a draft update to its biometric PIV card standard addressing initial identity proofing, interoperability infrastructure…

 

Aware acquires AFIX biometric software and team, extends ABIS product line

Aware has acquired a suite of biometric products known as AFIX from Maxar Technologies to extend the Aware ABIS product family…

 

New Unisys biometric access control release enhances security and flexibility features

Unisys has announced the release of the latest version of its biometric access control software, Unisys Stealth 6.0, with a…

 

Iraq draws closer to biometrics-backed elections in 2021 with 16M voter cards issued

Biometric cards which will be required to vote in Iraq’s upcoming elections have been distributed to 13 million eligible voters,…

 

Signzy and Clear appointees to lead biometrics innovation and market development

Biometric authentication providers Signzy and Clear have announced the appointment of new top executives to different positions in the respective…

 

Digital travel credential one step closer with ICAO implementation model approval

Specifications for the first digital travel credential (DTC) type have been endorsed by the ICAO Technical Advisory Group for the…

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