Pakistan moves against fraudulent digital ID cards
Muhammad Tariq Malik, the Chairman of Pakistan’s biometric National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) says a move to verify the…
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How Augentic delivered Cameroon’s biometric passport project amid the pandemic
“Wow. The 48 hours deadline is truly respected. When it’s good, we should say it’s good. If government was respecting…
Biometric capture for PhilID partially suspended
Authorities of the Philippines Statistics Authority (PSA) have temporarily put on hold the biometric capture of registrants for the national…
UK researcher says digital ID being used for exclusion in Dominican Republic
A new book entitled ‘Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic’ by Dr. Eve Hayes de Kalaf, a…
Biometrics for verification of pension earners in Nigeria, Zimbabwe
The Lagos State government of Nigeria says it is today beginning an online biometric verification process for 5,984 pensioners under…
Nigeria privacy concerns mount over digital ID-SIM link as deadline approaches
Concerns over privacy and the handling of personal data is putting off Nigerians from registering in the biometric ID system…
VerifyMe Nigeria brings efficiencies to KYC, biometric liveness checking, creates address marketplace
Nigerian startup VerifyMe is adding to its range of identity verification tools for KYC with biometric liveness detection, a banking number…
Aadhaar biometrics set India on a more digitally inclusive path, says NEC official
A senior official of NEC Corporation India has highlighted the substantial benefits which Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven technologies are bringing to…
850 Kenyan hospitals sue national insurance fund over biometric patient registration
850 hospitals are suing Kenya’s National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) in a dispute over the requirement to install equipment to…
Tanzania urged to regulate digital ID privacy, Zimbabwe to tackle exclusion
The government of Tanzania has been advised to put in place the necessary data protection and oversight regulation in order…
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