Sierra Leone putting digital ID at the center of its digital transformation agenda
The West African nation of Sierra Leone is at full throttle with its digital transformation efforts, and its MOSIP-based foundational…
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New Zealand welcomes input on draft biometrics code
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of New Zealand is seeking public feedback on draft rules for the use of…
India orders integration of two health IDs to facilitate access to unified services
Since April 1, it has become compulsory for Indians to link their Central Government Health Services (CGHS) beneficiary ID with…
Colorado police share feedback on digital ID scans
In Colorado, citizens can present their digital ID in the form of a QR code on the myColorado app in…
States converge on mDLs
Many U.S. states are launching and expanding mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs) to eventually be equivalent to their physical counterparts. Eventually,…
3 biometric access control partnerships expand market reach, deployment options
Fingerprint Cards has implemented biometric cards from Freevolt Technologies for physical access control at its headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden. The…
DPI gets cloud service launch, UN working groups and a definition of ‘public’
Cloud-based on-demand technology provided as a service could address a series of challenges associated with rolling out digital public infrastructure,…
Does facial recognition work if surgery alters a person’s face?
In the wealthy district of Gangnam in Seoul, immortalized in the viral pop hit “Gangnam Style,” there are currently 447…
Biometric face image quality standard draft released along with assessment tool
The Open Source Face Image Quality (OFIQ) assessment software library and the Draft International Standard it is a reference implementation…
Pindrop, Veridas raise biometric defenses against voice fraud
Pindrop has won the Voice Cloning Challenge run by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), along with three smaller organizations….
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