Zambia deepens digital sovereignty push with Huawei AI partnership
The Zambian government is banking on a new partnership with Chinese tech giant Huawei to power digital government services across…
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Australia builds enforcement layer behind age assurance laws
Australia is moving beyond age assurance mandates toward a broader legal framework designed to hold online platforms accountable for harms…
India pushes for strategic autonomy in biometrics, DPI and AI
Governments are increasingly pursuing technological sovereignty as concerns grow around dependence on foreign AI, cloud and biometric infrastructure. S. Krishnan,…
Identity industry rethinks fraud-versus-friction tradeoff
If you spend enough time with the biometrics and identity crowd, you will eventually hear someone whisper fretfully about the…
16 major AI image models found vulnerable to synthetic ID generation
A review of 16 major AI image-generation models found that most could generate realistic synthetic government identity documents, raising new…
OCR Studio launches neural network for document collages, updates deepfake detection
OCR Studio has launched a neural network technology that reliably detects document collages that fraudsters use during KYC and customer…
Evrotrust partners with Shufti as it expands digital trust services in DACH
Bulgarian national eID provider Evrotrust has signed an agreement with identity verification firm Shufti as it expands its presence in…
Heuristik targets healthcare biometrics with AI built for clinical conditions
Spanish biometrics company Heuristik has global ambitions, a personal origin story and government backing for its neural network focused on…
Smart glasses, mobile FRT normalize ambient biometric surveillance
Meta’s smart glasses and Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) expanding use of mobile facial recognition point to a broader shift…
UK biometrics watchdog backs expanded oversight role for Scotland
The UK’s Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner (BSCC) has backed a stronger role for Scotland’s biometrics watchdog, warning that the…
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