Advocates pick privacy, inclusion holds in Kenya’s Maisha Namba digital ID system
Fresh concerns have been raised about issues of data privacy, security and exclusion in relation to Kenya’s Maisha Namba digital…
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Sri Lanka biometric data to be secured with hashing
Sri Lanka will secure the biometric data for its national ID system in hashed form. This one-way technology converts biometric…
Cameroon opens new ID card production centre as issuance gains traction
A major center for the production of identity documents has been commissioned in Cameroon’s economic capita, Douala. The Minister of…
IJCB’s facial recognition adversarial attack challenge kicks off
This Monday saw the official kick-off of the 2025 Adversarial Attack Challenge (AAC), a competition aimed at strengthening biometric authentication…
As market for age assurance heats up, standards and rankings ID trusted vendors
According to a recent report from Liminal, the global age assurance market is set to grow from $5.7 billion in…
Southeast Asian countries align on approach to digital identity adoption
There are several different models of national digital IDs followed around the world, and several different methods of managing them….
Iran rolls out AI platform prototype amid facial recognition surveillance accusations
Iran has presented a prototype of its national AI platform, designed to address both the country’s lagging technological development and…
Finland faces reproval over move to expand biometrics use for law enforcement
Finland’s Ministry of Interior is facing acerbic criticism from various quarters following a move to make changes to the way…
Precise, Veridas, Toppan Edge and Solity expand biometric access control options
The options for biometric physical access control deployments are expanding in a couple of different ways. On the software side,…
World launches World Chat mini app to connect with World App, World ID
Any mega-platform worth its salt has a chat feature, and now the World Network does, too. Last week the company…
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