Idemia contract with South Africa airport authority terminated
Idemia’s major contract to supply biometrics and facial recognition systems for South Africa’s airports has been canceled, after months of…
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Somalia leverages its national ID system to drive financial inclusion
The Horn of Africa nation of Somalia has taken its digital transformation push a notch high with a recent Memorandum…
Cameroon audit finds nearly 13k fake birth certificates in $5M pension fraud
An audit carried out by the Ministry of Finance of Cameroon has unveiled a massive pension fraud by some former…
Keyless IDV Bridge feature launched for identity verification and authentication
Keyless has launched a new feature that automatically enrolls users into its system during their identity verification (IDV) process through…
Remote biometric surveillance and policing – a new frame of reference?
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner In surveillance perspective is everything. Your viewpoint affects what you…
CNN-based thermal IR facial recognition systems for biometric identification
Many facial recognition systems rely on images captured in visible light, which can be affected by various factors such as…
More Latin American regulators suspicious of Worldcoin data collection practices
In attempting to establish its World ID protocol and WLD cryptocurrency, much-interrogated iris biometrics scheme Worldcoin may have to settle…
World Bank pledges to close access gap to official ID, digital payments
The World Bank has pledged that it will continue to offer support through its Identification for Development (ID4D) initiative to…
FBI, CISA warn of threats to election systems that could compromise voters’ PII
U.S. federal law enforcement and cybersecurity agencies issued a warning to election officials at all levels across the nation to…
Claim that DTC ‘is the strongest digital identity’ under the microscope
Many more people have and use digital identities than even a year ago, but there is significant variety in the…
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