Nigeria adds 1M digital IDs as efforts to meet new target advance
Nigeria’s National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has released National Identification Number (NIN) figures for March, indicating that almost a million…
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Regula reviews capabilities needed to process different Philippine IDs
The Philippines is evolving digitally and a key part of its ongoing DPI journey is its National ID System. Known…
Consortium of Privacy Regulators assembles to coordinate enforcement
State privacy regulators are organizing to promote collaboration and information sharing, in what a release calls “the bipartisan effort to…
Age assurance differs across continents, as Europe, UK take stronger stance than US
The wild frontier of age assurance legislation continues to take shape, as legal decisions and regulatory trends create incremental shifts…
Palantir’s ImmigrationOS fuels Trump administration’s immigrant removal agenda
In April 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) awarded a $30 million contract to Palantir Technologies to develop ImmigrationOS,…
Potential for deepfake audio, video to warp reality is building to crisis level
Persona has published its fraud insights for the first quarter of 2025, and deepfakes take the headline. “The deepfake fight…
Identity is under siege as AI and cyber exploits evolve and outpace defenses
At the center of today’s cybersecurity crises is a single, unifying vulnerability: digital identity. The IBM X-Force 2025 Threat Intelligence…
Panasonic supplies facial recognition to Osaka Expo 2025 for staff access
Panasonic Connect is supplying biometric technology to the Osaka-Kansai Expo 2025 in Japan, which is expected to host 28 million…
Objectors appeal Clearview’s biometric data privacy settlement approval
The final approval of the settlement in Clearview AI’s biometric data privacy multi-district litigation in district court last month was…
Rwanda seeks supplier for automated multimodal biometric authentication system
The Rwanda Information Society Authority (RISA) has announced that it is receiving bids for the implementation of an Automated Multi-modal…
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