Idemia chips power St Kitts and Nevis’s new digital ID cards
St Kitts and Nevis’s new electronic identification (eID) system will be equipped with technology from Idemia. The Caribbean dual-island nation…
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Meet the regulators of Australia’s Digital ID Act
Australia’s Digital ID Act 2024 went live on December 1, introducing an updated voluntary accreditation scheme for providers of Digital…
Over 28M Saudi Arabians now have digital ID for easy access to services
More than 28 million unified digital IDs have been issued through a Saudi Arabian digital government platform Absher to facilitate…
Kenya records major gains in Maisha Namba ID backlog clearance
Kenya’s State Department of Immigration and Citizen Services says that its efforts to advance the Maisha digital ID project led…
Philippines pilots back-to-back birth and national ID registration for newborns
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) has piloted back-to-back birth and National ID registration. The pilot strategy means the PSA is…
Dahua distances itself from Xinjiang biometric surveillance by cancelling contracts
Biometric surveillance camera-maker Dahua has announced that it and its subsidiaries have cancelled contracts for five projects with local governments…
Revealed: the world’s most surveilled cities of 2024?
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner What was the most surveilled city in the world last…
Palm biometric payments gain traction with transit rollout
A public transit operator in a small Asian country is joining forward-looking tech and payment giants like Amazon, J.P. Morgan…
Forthcoming iPhone 17’s biometrics rumored to utilize novel optical hardware
The next version of native biometrics on the iPhone will look a little different, if the latest rumors are true….
New ENBIC Center signals hope for stronger adoption of ECOWAS regional ID card
The recently inaugurated Bola Ahmed Tinubu Technology Innovation Complex (BATTIC) in Nigeria which comprises a facility for the production for…
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