Gabon updates digital payment laws to support regional interoperability
Gabon’s cabinet approved a bill on October 8 to update the country’s digital payments framework as efforts to strengthen its…
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Vietnam shares population management, digital ID technology with Laos
Vietnam has shared its population management and citizen identification technology with Laos as the neighboring ASEAN members deepen digital cooperation….
ASEAN moves toward interoperable digital identity with verifiable credentials
The 11 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are among the world’s most active adopters of digital identity….
W3C’s Verifiable Credential Barcodes add real-time revocation for physical IDs
Identity fraud is no longer a fringe problem. Massive data breaches continue to demonstrate how identities and credentials are vulnerable,…
TikTok gave children placebo safety controls in undisclosed experiments, New York alleges
TikTok deliberately withheld algorithmic safety protections from millions of users and assigned tens of thousands of others, including children and…
Border biometrics move toward better gates, or none at all
The biometric technology needed for a new kind of border control is here. Travelers can already move through airports and…
ICE voter data, nonprofit investigations expose expansive surveillance machinery
Newly released records show U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) amassed tens of millions of voter records and investigated more…
ICE scraps visa vetting system recompete in favor of Palantir Foundry
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has canceled a planned competitive procurement for continued support of its Visa Security Program…
TECH5 names Rahul Parthe CEO for next phase of digital infrastructure growth
Tech5 is putting co-founder Rahul Parthe in charge of operations as it seeks to bring its national digital infrastructure model…
Next Biometrics to file for bankruptcy
Next Biometrics has run out of time to fund its pivot around its new Anywhere-in-Display fingerprint biometrics technology, announcing its…
