Thales powers Guam Police’s revived biometric system for gun-owner IDs
The Guam Police Department (GPD) will be reinstating its digital fingerprint system for the issuance of firearms identification cards. This…
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France adding health cards to digital ID app next year
The French government plans to make the healthcare card, known as the carte Vitale, accessible through the France Identité app…
The Maldives secures Mantra fingerprint biometrics scanners for national ID system
The Maldives has acquired biometric scanners that will be used as part of the country’s national identification infrastructure. The equipment…
OpenID Connect spec family adopted as international standards
They grow up so fast. A full decade has passed since OpenID Connect was launched, and now nine specifications have…
Pats on the back, questions and suggestions for NIST’s Digital Identity Guidelines
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology should communicate clearly with Congress and continue to refine key concepts in…
Upgrade to New Zealand’s immigration system postponed
A key improvement to New Zealand’s immigration identity system, known as the Biometric Capability Upgrade (BCU), will be delayed for…
Europe outlines plans for EU Digital Travel app as concerns over EES rise
The era of digital passports may be drawing closer in the European Union. The bloc has proposed a new EU…
Indian state launches pilot for family digital ID card project
Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has inaugurated a pilot project to introduce family digital ID cards, aimed at streamlining…
ChatGPT can recognize ‘facial identities,’ perform age estimation: research
The large language model (LLM) ChatGPT “recognizes facial identities and differentiates between two facial images with considerable accuracy,” according to…
NIST seeks input, awards contract to hone digital identity guidance
A U.S. government body is seeking feedback on how attribute validation services (AVS) should work as part of its broader…
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