South Africa trials govt data exchange platform modeled after Estonia’s X-Road
South Africa’s National Treasury is leading a year-long pilot for a data exchange platform labelled MzansiXchange within the framework of…
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DIACC certifies ID verification for legal industry to Canada’s trust framework
There is now a certified option to ensure that client data handling by legal professionals in Canada will respect the…
New World Bank data shows 800M people worldwide still lack legal identity
An estimated 800 million people around the world still lack official proof of identity with many of them children whose…
CBP expands mobile facial recognition to local police through new app
On Monday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) quietly rolled out a new mobile face-scanning app called Mobile Identify for…
USCIS expands program to verify voter citizenship using partial social security numbers
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced Monday that states may now use the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program…
AI agents everywhere all the time have firms building identity management capacity
The bet has been laid on AI, as firms offering algorithmic tech come to occupy more and more of the…
Biometric Processing Privacy Code for New Zealand comes into effect
New Zealand’s new Biometric Processing Privacy Code is now live, having taken effect on November 3. The code applies to…
Suggestion of live facial recognition for UK trains meets practical limitations
A horrific stabbing incident on a passenger train in the UK has led a prominent opposition politician and former policing…
iProov certified for biometric deepfake protection with Ingenium IAD test
iProov’s biometric injection attack detection technology has passed an evaluation by Ingenium Biometrics to Level 2, which aligns with the…
China expands biometric customs clearance for ports to Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan
China is set to expand its biometric-based intelligent customs clearance system across Mainland ports that connect with Hong Kong, Macao,…
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